Comments on: OOh! My Spoonflower Fabric!

By: Sister-Diane

Sister-Diane — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:28:57 +0000

ejzmom, I cheated a little on the dpi, but it didn’t affect the quality of the finished fabric too much. I don’t have access to Photoshop these days, so I used iPhoto on my Mac instead. When you export an image from iPhoto, you can set the quality level: Low, Medium, High, or Maximum. I went Maximum, which gave it a higher dpi, but the software doesn’t indicate what it actually is.

One thing that did make a difference: I made my flowers very large in the Flower Maker, screen-captured them large, and then reduced their size in the composed image I created.

By: ejzmom

ejzmom — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:31:44 +0000

It’s so pretty. a question… after you screen-capture the flowers do you have to increase the resolution or dpi to send it for printing? as i read from Spoonflower blog that the patterns have to be uploaded at 150dpi. thanks.

By: dmollison

dmollison — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:38:27 +0000

OH! That is beautiful. I just placed my first order last night. I’m so excited. Well done with those flowers.

By: Shannon of Mayabella

Shannon of Mayabella — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:30:34 +0000

That is gorgeous! And the reds came out so nice. I am still trying to work out my fuzzy images! Frustrating. But I love Spoonflower!

By: Bridget B.

Bridget B. — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:32:30 +0000

Eeee! I got my spoonflower invite a week ago, and just haven’t figured out yet what I want to try and have printed . . . I get giddy as a schoolgirl, though, each time I see some new blogger post about getting their fabric . . . this concept is brilliant!!

By: Steffen

Steffen — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:10:06 +0000

this is seriously very cool and what a great piece of fabric to do something really nifty with- good luck and well done

By: Sister-Diane

Sister-Diane — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:00:16 +0000

Jeanetta, to get those flowers, I used something called Grab, which is a built-in screen-capture utility on my Mac. With it, I can select any section of the computer screen, and Grab saves it as a GIF file. Then I converted the GIFs to JPEGs, and used them to build the design.

If you use Windows, you might try this technique for getting a screen capture: http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/general/ht/winscreenshot.htm

By: jeanetta

jeanetta — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:23:46 +0000

i have a quick question about the flower site. how were you able to capture or save the flower image once you created it. did you just print them out and rescan them because i cant figure out another way of using my flower designs. thanks.

By: jessica mathew

jessica mathew — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:20:32 +0000

great fabric! thanks for sharing the flower making site–it’s really fun. you have inspired me to actually use my spoonflower account!!

By: gl.

gl. — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:15:03 +0000

snifty! is there anything the internet can’t do? ;)

By: Anitra Cameron

Anitra Cameron — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:50:17 +0000

OH. MY. GOSH. I Love it–the idea is wonderful, and your design is a delight! Here I sit, completely, I thought, exhausted, and now I want to start designing patterns or run for scissors and fabric or….

I should have known better than to visit your blog this late in the evening, lol.

By: Lisa Clarke

Lisa Clarke — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:36:30 +0000

So cool! I’m glad to hear a review. I got a beta invitation, too, but I’ve been hesitating. I feel like I have to already have the perfect project in mind before I can justify the splurge :-D

By: Tsoniki

Tsoniki — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:02:13 +0000

Wow that is so very cool! I love the idea of designing your own.

By: Fanie!

Fanie! — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:34:12 +0000

I love, Spoonflower’s idea! :-D I’m a fan! It’s great that you already ordered from them. I will probably try it out as well sooner than later!

And your flowers are beautiful! Maybe you could make a tote bag with it? Lotta Jansdotter’s first book has a tutorial that is great to make a tote bag even with different pieces of fabrics.

By: Lix

Lix — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:52:43 +0000

Love the fabric. Thanks for the heads up. Have joined the queue but guess is going to be a bit like getting into ravelry in the old days! Just have to hang in there.