$35 Custom Fabric Giveaway with My Fabric Designs!

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Earlier today I posted a tutorial for my Easy Tote using a half yard of my custom designed fabric from My Fabric Designs. While my other post focused more on the tote bag tutorial, I wanted to give more of my impressions of My Fabric Designs in this post.I chose to design my own fabrics.

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Before I got started designing, I ordered the Color Matrix, Color Guide, and Swatch Book so I could see and feel the different fabrics and see the how each color prints. Those tools were all well produced and helpful to have.

MFD Tools

 

I found the whole website easy to use and navigate. For my designs I began by creating a repeating pattern that I transferred to a wood block. I carved the pattern, printed it, then scanned that image into Adobe Illustrator. I used Illustrator to digitized the pattern and change the colors. Then I created a jpg file for each of the 2 fabric designs.

MFD-Woodblock

 

Once I had my two jpgs ready to go I uploaded them to the My Fabric Designs website. These two patterns use the same woodcut shows above but I chose different repeat options when I set up the pattern in the My Fabric Designs website so they look much different. You can also adjust the scale of your design within My Fabric Designs.The preview feature was great and it showed exactly what a swatch or several yards of fabric would look like. There are 26 fabric types to choose from cotton, jersey knit, crepe de chine, canvas, french terry and more!

MFD-Design-Preview

 

Once I had my designs ready to go, I hit order and waited for my fabric to arrive. The fabric itself feels beautiful and came out exactly as I had hoped. The color and scale were both just as I had previewed. In my final fabrics the colors look saturated and the image is crisp and clear. Because I started with a bit of a distressed design it was hard to tell if the fabric faded with washing at all, so I’ll have to test that again with a darker fabric in the future. Below you can see both of my fabrics after washing along with a small preview of what it looked like on screen before ordering.

Here’s the taupe fabric with the “mirror” repeat option:

MFD-Final-Fabric-Taupe

And the orange fabric with the “default” repeat option:

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Giveaway

Now you have the chance to win some fabric for yourself! Just comment below with your favorite fabric color and I’ll use random.org to pick a winner for a $35 credit to My Fabric Designs. Contest closes Saturday, April 16th at 11:59pm, EST.

Giveaway closed. Congrats to the winner, #90, Joy M!

I was provided with this fabric for free from My Fabric Designs, but as always, all opinions are honest and are my own.

 

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103 comments

  1. Since I have two girls, I use a lot of purple and pink, but I like blue and grey too.

  6. How dues compare to spoonflower? I feel like theirs fades as well?

    Anyhow pink fav color.

  22. I am into either red or black …..hard to decide unless I saw it and fell in love 😉

  23. My favorite color is cobalt blue, but now that I will be a grandmother to a girl, I am thinking more pink or lavender. 🙂

  30. Lime and orange are my faves. Been making bags with blue and green lately for my daughter. Really, I love all colors! =)

  38. Thanks for showing us the design process. My favorite colors to use are earth tone colors: Brown, mustard, etc.

  39. I am into blues and teals. I think of ocean tides when working with those two colors. Very restful.

  40. The taupe in a default configuration would be my pick. Something low volume/neutral.

  45. This is great! I’ve used spoonflower but had not heard of this company yet! Thanks for sharing and for the giveaway… Favorite color of late is magenta ????

  47. Greens and yellows are my favorites. Thanks for the opportunity to try my hand design my own fabric!

  48. My favorite colors are violet, green and navy. Love that combo. Thanks for the intro to this company

  50. I love anything in the red tones (wine, burgundy, red, brick, cranberry, rust, orange-red, etc.) sjvonfumetti at yahoo dot com

  52. I love the bright colors! Pink, blue, yellow, green, purple. LOL, not a decisive choice, I know. Oh, and throw in some orange too!

  54. Loving the tore my faves right now are burnt orange and grey. making a spider web quilt with Kaffee Fassette right now so my life is a eainbow

  59. I love purple, think thats why I never cut my purple fabric and use it. Just too pretty

  70. Awesome design, love it! I like teal, more than usual lately. I love blues! All shades.

  74. I’m liking a lot of darker gray colors now – small prints that would work for new Summer tops!!!!

  78. I love your designs and love all colors. I’m one of those who can’t sew a quilt with lets say two colors in it! So hard for me to pick just one, sorry…but thanks for the chance, awesome!

  80. Normally red and purple are my favourite colours, but when I’m sewing I love working with bright orange and yellow.

  82. My favorite color is Blue, all shades, hues…
    It can be hard to match blues to use in a project.

  83. My favourite colour is blue, particularly royal blue x
    Iain.ross30 at gmail dot com

  85. I like many shades of grey and black, especially prints with these two colors.
    Thanks for a chance to win.

  86. It really depends what I’m using the fabric for, but I do love grey because it goes with nearly everything.

  89. I love yellows, golds, blues. Sometimes my mood dictates my likes and dislikes. Love your fabrics. The bag is super cute. Thanks for sharing and the giveaway.

  99. My favorite colour is cobalt blue, but I love purples, pinks and also greys as well!

  100. I love the blue shade. I think that it called it ‘taupe’ color. It is very unique!

  101. Both colors are awesome – love the wood cut design. This would be fun to try – making my own fabric design.

  102. I usually fall for any blue variation. But, these two are very nice and I like that gray!

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