With gift-giving holidays less than two months away, it’s time to start planning what presents you might want to sew. If you have the perfect project in mind, but just can’t find the right fabric, you may just want to design your own. Creating your own material couldn’t be easier with several sites devoted to custom printing:
Spoonflower is probably one of the best known sites on the web – not can you see your designs printed on a variety of cottons, sateen, rayon, and interlock knits, but you have the opportunity to win 5 yards of your design if you enter one of their weekly design contests!
If you’re looking for more than just cottons to print on, check out Fabric on Demand. This website will place your design on ‘classic cottons’, duck, fleece, micro-denier suede, Lycra, and polyester satins.
Have a luxurious gift in mind and requires a one-of-a-kind silk print? Try KaramKraft. This site uses reactive dyes not pigments which means that they can print on any fabric including silks and wools.
If you live outside of the United States and are looking for a fabric design site, be sure to stop by Bonbonkakku. Just like Spoonflower, this Finnish company holds contests where you can win yardage of your material!
Feb 4, 2011, 02.05 PMby indil
Thanks for the great resources, I am only glad I had readthis post.. turns out my DIY skills come handy at work where we need to print customised fabric for some projects. Durinng my research i stumbled upon other two German websites that can be interesting for people in Europe (like me): www.stoffn.de www.stoff-schmie.de
I hope this helps a little too!
Nov 18, 2009, 10.02 PMby mirela
The comment above is total spam.
Thanks for these great resources! Oh! not a print, but I remember a tutorial on how to create shibory like dyes and your own fabric using scrap yarns and water soluble stabilizer. All here at BurdaStyle
Nov 17, 2009, 08.11 PMby sew4my3
Oh this is such a quince-dent! I just bought some fabric from spoonflower and then spent the next few days designing my own. It has been so much fun! Also, I told my daughters about the site and now I can buy their designs and make something from their fabric for Christmas. Oh and I received the fabric and it is great quality. I will post the finished item as soon as I finish it. Sew with a smile!