Spoonflower

The actual fabric! (rotated)

The design

Spoonflower inspired me to start designing fabrics that I could use to make Arm Pillozzz. Spoonflower is a neat site that allows you to upload images and tile them to create patterns. Then you can order them or just post them online so that other people can order them. You get 10% of any sales and you get a 10% discount on your own fabrics. Ordering a pattern on the basic cotton fabric is $17.50 per yard length (the rolls are 42" wide), so it's expensive compared to commercial fabrics. But you can make pretty much anything you want. It's like a zazzle/cafepress type site for fabric.  Most of my patterns are rigidly geometric, but I think I'm a pretty creative geometrist (Geometrician? Geometer? Whatever, I like geometry.) I think pattern design is math intensive considering that to effectively repeat a unit block, the boundaries of the block have to be consistent when repeated. Also, there are a lot of colors, and the way they interact and compliment each other is very interesting. Here's my first pattern!

The Arma Sutra - Cuddling Positions

Though I recently posted about the Arm Pillo, I just made this Arma Sutra collage and I really like the way it turned out. The Arm Pillo can be ordered through www.armpillo.com or http://www.amazon.com

Arm Pillo on IndieGoGo

Edit: The IndieGoGo campaign has ended, but the Arm Pillo is available through www.simpleinno.com and http://www.amazon.com

First and foremost, the link http://www.indiegogo.com/ArmPillo. Sorry, but I'm not trying to be subtle about wanting you to check it out. New things: Arma Sutra, Leopard Print, Blue Fleece, Pink Fleece. Kickstarter doesn't want infomercial type products, so that's why the Arm Pillo was rejected. Finally, some closure. So that means here we go, IndieGoGo. Here's a little sample of what's on the IndieGoGo page:

Yeah, you know you like it. Mrrrawr.