Earthy Spoonflower Design Challenge

I've been working on new surface pattern designs for the East Fork Spoonflower Challenge coming up. I hadn't heard of this company before the challenge. But was inspired by their beautiful collection of pottery. The winning design will accompany the company's earthy home line.

I wanted to keep the fabric design pretty simple so that it compliments the pottery and let it stand out. I did some hand sketching textures to help give it an organic feel. I came up with two styles using their Tequila Sunrise color. One is a tweak from my previous Cross-hatch tree design. And other that is more of a wavy sketchy stripe. Both started out hand drawn in my sketch book, then photographed and converted to vector artwork in Illustrator. Each was rearranged digitally to tighten up the design and help create the repeating pattern.

I ended up posting the Organic Wave version as my submission because it's a new design for me. Voting will begin on April 30 at the Spoonflower Design Challenge.

Spring Refresh

Back on the blog from a little hiatus. Lots has changed and not at the same time. Like many people this time at home has given me more time to focus on my side creative life. And locating and refreshing this blog has been on my list of to-dos for a while. And now is the perfect time to get back at it. Since launching my Etsy store, I've added a Spoonflower shop with a variety of designs for wallpaper and fabric, and now a consolidated Lamb Design Goods website to house all my various product and process info and links. I've been able to create these through baby steps throughout the last three years and longer. There are definitely days I don't feel creative especially now on quarantine. I have moments of feeling super productive and others where I rather just stare at the ceiling. But right now I am taking advantage of my more energetic moments to bust out a few tasks. I'm hoping that refreshing this blog will help me bring all these things together and help me stay inspired. Baby steps are sometimes just what we need to get us where we want to go.