A couple of months ago, I bought a beautiful piece of fabric from an artist friend who just got herself set up on Spoonflower. We've talked about Spoonflower and other print on demand fabric services online before; I have experimented with having some things printed, but this is the first time I bought a fabric piece from someone else.
It was a good experience. Elena Malec is the artist, and here is the link to her fabric called Rock Roses. The fabric's colors are saturated and the fabric quality is very good. I let the fabric sit around for quite sometime before I chose my first project...just a simple beaded piece that follows the colors the best I could.
1. Pick a swatch of the fabric and mark off the area you plan to bead.
2. Starting in the middle, back stitch size 11/0 seed beads in a spiral.
3. Finish the edges by turning them under and mount the beadwork.
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