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Spoonflower: A Tool for Would-Be Fabric Designers
Those who work and play in fabric can try their hand as fabric designers.
Our motto at Shoreline Village's Brickersville is that "Everything Can Start with LEGO ®Bricks".
I work in LEGO® bricks. I sew. I especially like to quilt. I usually use scraps and pieces of fabric I find laying around, partly because I'm cheap, partly because I like to use and reuse stuff that's... already laying around.
We were watching the new Disney show, Mandalorian, yesterday. My husband thinks my Star Wars character is a Jawa. These are the guys who collect scraps of electronics and mechanical parts on Tatooine. I'm always gathering scraps and other bits. It's a Maker's game to make what you can of the stuff you find around you. For me, life is a scavenger hunt for potentially useful discards. I'm glad that the current sustainability movement supports reuse, else I might be considered a little... ahem... deviant. I guess I'm cutting edge.
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A few years ago, someone donated 1000 cubic feet of fabric that had been laying around in a storage locker in Santa Ana. So I've been set for fabric for a long time.
BUT... Brickersville gave me a reason to buy some fabric last week. It was very special fabric that I'd designed using some images of LEGO® characters that we'd edited at Brickersville (in Photoshop) and layered onto solid, contrasting colors.
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I feel so empowered! I'm able to build a LEGO creature, take a photo, edit the photo, and prepare the image for printing by Spoonflower!
I feel like a kid waiting for Santa. I can't stand the wait! I'm so excited with anticipation of receiving my very own fabric print and making something out of it! I received the email that it's shipped. I should receive it by Friday, i expect. Then it's time to bring out the sewing machine.
I made a video about this experience, and I want to share it with you.
Trish Tsoiasue is a community developer in Long Beach, CA. Together with Jesse Miller, the Honorable First Mayor of Brickersville and NZ Fawkes, Brickersville's 10-year-old Director of Bricking (and his mom), she is working to produce Shoreline Village's Brickersville, and The Brickersville Show. When she's not working at (or on) Brickersville, she's working on the Squigglemom YouTube channel and making things.