There are several ways to personalise a quilt, whether it’s designing our own patterns, using our favourite colours, or incorporating our favour themes. Another way is sewing with fabric we’ve designed ourselves.
While fabric design might sound like the exclusive territory of graphic artists, it doesn’t have to be complicated. Did you know custom printed fabric is how our members created the faces of the women featured on the WWII quilt that currently hangs in the Waterford Heritage & Agricultural Museum?
Custom printed fabric can be used for family photos, custom quilt labels, or our own embroidery patterns when tracing the pattern over and over is just too tedious. Of course it doesn’t end there. Scroll to the bottom of this page to see an art quilt Norene designed.
On Monday March 10, Norene Skiles will teach us all about using Spoonflower.com to print our own fabric and quilt labels. She will share examples of some of the ways she has used Spoonflower, and give an overview of how to use the website. We will learn how to search for feature fabrics, upload our own work, and a simple way to make a repeating pattern fabric.
If you’re looking for inspiration, the two fabrics pictured above are among several Norene has on her own Spoonflower page.
Join us Monday March 10 @ 7pm Eastern time, via zoom. Guests are welcome. Please see the guest section of our fees page. You might even want to join our guild for $20 for the last 4 meetings of the year!
Twilight Quilters' Guild of Norfolk County 