Do you sew?
If so, you have almost certainly had the frustration of wanting fabric in a colour or type of design that you just can’t buy anywhere. Even plain colours can be hard to get it if they’re not ‘on trend’.
So what do you do?
Stamp your foot and go off for a sulk?
Give up and take up knitting?
Or maybe you’ve thought you could design your own fabric.
Now that print-on-demand fabric printing is readily available – and at a relatively cheap price – more and more sewers are thinking about designing their own fabric.
But where do you start?
Do you need expensive, difficult-to-learn software?
What sort of file should you save your design in?
What’s a dpi? And what difference does it make to your design?
How do you create a repeat?
These, and many other questions, can make it difficult to get started in fabric design.
However, most of these questions are easily answered, and, as long as you’re not too ambitious to start with, creating your own design doesn’t need to be difficult.
I run a regular workshop called First Steps in Fabric Design which will answer all these questions. We spend an evening together on Zoom when we create a simple design (no expensive software or painting / drawing required) and get it ready for printing. You have unlimited access to a recording of a session, plus one or two extras, so you can always go back and watch it again if there’s anything you’ve forgotten. You are also free to join in any future live sessions, so you can ask your questions live.
People who have attended in the past say it’s fun and helpful. They’ve created their own designs there and then and many have had them printed and gone on to design more.
The next live workshop is on October 20th, but as soon as you sign up you can watch a previous workshop, so you can get started straight away. The workshop costs £20.
Click on the button below to go to the sign-up page.
