Spoonflower & Mollie Makes

This week the Spoonflower weekly contest 'Flights of Fancy' is sponsored by the brilliant UK craft magazine Mollie Makes. The task was to create a bird of flight-related fabric design (repeating) that used a restricted colour palette (grey, light teal, apple green and pale yellow).

Mollie Makes are planning to use the winning fabric in a photo for the cover of Issue 26 of Mollie Makes on sale April 2013, how cool is that? You can vote here!

So without further ado here is my design, Hummingbird Heaven. There are some amazing entries this week so it will be a very tough contest and I would love it if you like my design if you could take a moment to vote for it!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

New designs

Today I am sharing with you some new designs I have been working on. There's lots of new patterns on the go here right now and I am LOVING it!

I am starting to feel that my patterns really have a signature style and show my personality well.

You may recognise the grey design below, the designs were created as part of my 'dreams' collection. You can see the existing designs printed as fabrics here and as a sneak peek here. You can also buy the existing designs as fabrics from Spoonflower here.

The new designs use the same colours and motifs as the existing designs, but have more organic layouts and mixes of motifs from different patterns. I love how all the patterns look together!

I also had very exciting news yesterday, someone purchased some of my Dreamcatcher fabric on Spoonflower! It's so exciting to know that someone likes my design enough to buy yards of it!

Lots of exciting new designs and news coming soon so be sure to check back soon! Just to tease you here is a sneak peek of a new design I am currently working on as part of a new collection I will share soon!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

Spoonflower fabrics arrived!

Today a super exciting package full of lovely fabrics from Spoonflower arrived!

This is a rather picture heavy post but I ordered quite a few of my designs and am SO pleased with how they all came out and wanted to share them! Hope you like!

All the fabrics are available to buy NOW from my Spoonflower store!

 

 

 

 

 

 

All images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

Passion4Pattern Bloghop

On Sunday I will be taking part in the second Passion4Pattern Bloghop.

If you don't know how a bloghop works, it's basically a chain of blogs. You start from one advertised blog and then each blog along a chain links you to the next blog, so you can read through lots of lovely blogs!

The starting blog for this Sunday's bloghop is http://clairesmillie.wordpress.com/ and all the blogs will post at 8am Sunday (UK time) so if you visit the link above or come back here, you will able to browse lots lovely work from very talented and hard working designers!

It's very busy here right now, Module 3 of ABSPD (SO many great briefs), freelance work and trying to spread the word of my work and manufacture products for sale along with working on designs to present for sale and licensing. PHEW.

So much exciting stuff to come but until then here's a little sneak peek of something I've been working on!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

Dream catching

Lately I have been working very spontaneously between jobs and making patterns as and when they come into my head. The other morning I was just browsing the internet and suddenly a dreamcatcher motif and colour palette popped into my head and I had to put pen to paper, well more like finger to mouse and create what was in my head.

Creating patterns for a living would be a dream for me, so I'm hoping and wishing that someday, hopefully soon, that will be possible!

I am currently in search of work, full time, freelance or commission, if you are interested or know anyone who would be, please get in touch! You can contact me via Twitter (@rosie_simons) or Facebook (Rosie Simons Graphic and Surface Design) or email: rosie at rosiesimons dot co dot uk

Image copyright Rosie Simons 2012