Lilly, Schmilly - design your own fabric
 

I didn't want to hijack the Lilly Pulitizer sorority patterns thread so - HEY look! A site where you can design and print your own fabric. How cool would it be for an artsy type alum to make patterns utilizing GLO symbols? I am not creative that way or I'd be all over this. You can make your designs public, so if your talent runs that way . . .

www.spoonflowers.com

There is already an Alpha Sigma Alpha pattern - http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/530337

Tri Sigma - http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/671457

FIU Delta Phi Epsilon - http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/674435

I'm surprised there aren't more! I like the Alpha Sigma Alpha pattern better than some of the Lilly patterns.

The ASA pattern is lovely!

We were talking about this on Facebook - I forget who (it was one of our sisters) did it.

Hope your sister sells some yardage! They would make great letter shirts.

SWTXBelle, Thank you for posting! I am actually going to use this for the bulletin board at school. The latest craze this year is using fabric instead of the tacky butcher paper. Plus, you can wash this and re-use. :)

^^^^Like!

Huh. Whaddya know...I "Like" this. It's always funny to click on a link and find out you already "Like" it. I knew this site sounded familiar.

I made one! http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric_it...sign_id=745057

It is! I definitely like it better than the majority of Lilly Prints! Now hopefully some super creative Sigma Kappa will hop on that site!

The link is taking me to the main page - :(

Try again... I didn't realize there was a step to make it public. If you still don't see it, enter alphaxisis and click on designer.

Love it!

Oooooh man...I am in TROUBLE! Here I go with another fun site to waste time on -- first it was Polyvore, now Spoonflower! I'll post my results when I'm done!

Ah, but this site could result in actual real FABRIC!

The purple and pearls is way too cute!

Oooooh, I think we're all in trouble! Calling alum, our resident quilting pro: There are over 30 pages of owls, several key and fleur-de-lis ones, and a few irises. Man, oh, man, oh, man!

Love your Alpha Xi fabric, DubaiSis--you are very clever. I also like the Tri Sigma one that the designer said she made for letters--it is very clever, too.

I'd like to know what platforms others use. I used Publisher, and had to spend FOREVER getting that quill right. The piece still needs some work, but I am a quilter and in the forever search for the perfect fat quarter, so I may actually order mine. Then I can put it up for sale! Wouldn't that be fun?

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Oh, and speaking of owls, I am a secret shopper for Pottery Barn and Pottery Barn Kids, and they have the cutest owl pencil holder at PBK. I've been meaning to mention that for a couple weeks now.

I would love to just take the simple pink quatrefoil and use it as a repeating pattern...nothing fancy.

Get on their mailing list so you can get a free swatch. I chose http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/253127. The blue was medium dull on my computer monitor but it is actually very bright. I haven't tested it yet for colorfastness but I will before I use it.

This would be great for people who want mini-motifs to be scaled small enough for stitched block letters. I have a lot of designs in mind but don't know how to execute them onto a computer program.

And even though $18 per yard is expensive by quilting standards (most high-quality cottons are around $10/yd), it's no worse than buying college boxers or lounge pants items at the university bookstore as a couple of my clients have done.
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...24#post2013124
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...4&postcount=27

OK, I made 2 for Phi Mu because the quatrefoil lends itself so well to small prints.
http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/746091?sell_this=true
http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/746079
They're the same, just different sizes. What do you think?

ADORABLE! This is exactly what I was talking about.

In my neck of the woods, nobody jumps out and talks about sorority membership as a young professional, so I am always looking for things that hint at it without saying it. Like, if you saw someone wearing this, you would know, but not everybody would know.

Since I'd have no need to purchase this on my own, if you want the sample, let me know. Maybe we can work something out. Next I think I'll try something with crescent moons.

Hmmm . . .think brown, pink, waxing crescent and perhaps a pink carnation . . . :)

OK, I REALLY have to get back to work, but I thought I'd take a shot at Gamma Phi next. 4 variations on a theme. I think I like 2 and 4 the best. Sorry they're so big!
http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric_it..._comments=true
http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/747353
http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/747355
http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/747367?sell_this=true

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...0_300734_n.jpg


http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._1145388_n.jpg

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._7208874_n.jpg

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...3_436308_n.jpg

HOW MUCH DO I LOVE THESE? I love them a great deal!

OK, I really have to stop, but here are 4 more Alpha Xi prints, although I've clipped some smaller pieces to publish.

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._2530843_n.jpg http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._6133663_n.jpg
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._2629048_n.jpg http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._1035647_n.jpg

DubaiSis, your designs are GREAT! i wonder what you could do for an AOII design?

I love all those prints SO much more than anything I saw on the Lilly site. Simple is good!

What program are you using to make the repetitive motifs especially the ones that alternate? I really would like to do this!

I used MS Publisher and it's TEDIOUS. I found an image, did text wrap to delete out all the excess white space, sized it to taste, and copied and pasted, and copied and pasted. To reverse the print you just flip horizontal. In most of these cases I took a logo or symbol off the sorority web page and played around with it. Thankfully they don't protect all of their images so they can be borrowed relatively easily. Then I saved it as a .pub file and then saved it again as a .jpg so that it could be uploaded. Then I shrunk it down so I could paste it on here. Yes, I had some time on my hands today!

I think you can do just one image and the spoonflower website will replicate it, but I haven't played around with the site much.

Dubaisis, any chance you'd want to make a Sigma print? Purple, pearls, and a sailboat? I don't like most skull and cross bone designs, unless it can somehow be made cute. You're amazing at these, by the way. :)

This is much harder than I imagined...here is what I've come up with so far...have yet to make something I love love love...but I'll get there.

First attempt:
http://www.spoonflower.com/design_th...op_preview.png
Up close:
http://oi51.tinypic.com/2m440tz.jpg

Attempt #2:
http://www.spoonflower.com/design_th...op_preview.png
Up close:
http://oi53.tinypic.com/m8lcv5.jpg

Attempt #3:
http://www.spoonflower.com/design_th...op_preview.png
Up close:
http://oi51.tinypic.com/14o7v9z.jpg

Attempt #4:
http://www.spoonflower.com/design_th...op_preview.png
Up close:
http://oi54.tinypic.com/2ir3p0n.jpg

More to come...I'm also getting the itch to delve into different GLOs.

WhiteDaisy, those are *stunning* - great work! (Please feel free to start with Theta when you start branching out ;) )

WhiteDaisy those are really good!

Just for GreekGrrl! ;)

Kappa Alpha Theta:
http://www.spoonflower.com/design_th...op_preview.png
Up close:
http://oi54.tinypic.com/2zozpjn.jpg

Now those of you who asked for designs - be sure to order some fabric. I am as soon as I get my first paycheck!:)

Sigma please? Whitedaisy you're so good at these! First the NPC collections now this? What aren't you good at?

Music. I'm terrible at all things musical (can't read music, can't play any instruments, can't sing, can't keep rhythm, etc.). :p

Seriously though, thanks for the compliments...I'm a stay-at-home mom who does graphic design stuff in my spare time...keeps me intellectually and aesthetically stimulated.

Sigma will be the first one I tackle tomorrow (it's 10 PM here and I'm off to bed...the 10 month old and 2.5 year old are both waking up early these days!).