Several people have recently asked if I’ve ever considered textile design, and the answer is of course a resounding ‘yes!’ – and then I remembered that I did have one illustration project several years ago that involved a little bit of textile design, namely designing tights and leggings for girls.
I don’t actually know how far the project ended up in the manufacturing process, but I was hired to illustrate the designs to certain specifications. I own the rights to these illustrations so I thought I would show you some of them today. Here are the detail images of the tights/leggings above:
It was really fun working on these, but since I basically just drew what the designer had in mind, I don’t really consider it textile designing in the truest sense (she did give me ample liberty to modify things if I saw fit though – so that was nice). I created about 30 designs and I believe 5 or 6 went into production mode.
The designer sent me a sample of one of the designs, and K wore these tights a lot:
Please excuse the pilling…I tried to get that depth of field thing going to hide the extreme pilling, but oh well. These were well-loved.
I think it’s time I looked into the Spoonflower rage that’s been going on. How fun would it be to sew something with fabric that I designed myself???
wow the strawberries were by far my favorite and to see them on tights was so great!
wonderful work.
also how cool that you were willing to try gluten free baking! gluten free is hard enough but i can’t imagine adding in other allergies. what a great friend. i’m gluten free and have been for a year and i know how special it would be to have someone making something ‘special’.
YES! yes! yes!yes! I would love to see what you create. The illustrations you made for the designer is nice, but it’s definitely not your truest form. If you ever have fabric done, I’ll be your first customer!!!
sanae + spoonflower = match made in heaven:)
Thanks ladies! Can’t wait to try out spoonflower!