A to Z Blogging Challenge 2025: K is for Fluevog Kiernan

 Day 11 of "Blogging from A to Z" with my annual (going on eight years) challenge of drawing Fluevog Shoes and creating repeating patterns with them. Eventually, these designs wind up on Redbubble and Spoonflower.

Today's footwear is the Fluevog Kiernan

In repeat

available on both Spoonflower and Redbubble

The A to Z Challenge is held every April. The challenge is to blog through the alphabet every Monday through Saturday. The “A” theme is blogged on April 1st, “B” April 2nd, etc.
More about the challenge can be found on the official Blogging from A to Z Challenge Blog.
Here's the link to the Master List, with all the official participants (link)

Spoonflower x East Fork Challenge

Time for another Spoonflower popularity contest.

For this challenge, we were told to be inspired by the glaze colors of these dishes from East Fork:

I took the actual pottery (and other East Fork items) as my inspiration!

Traced them in Procreate...

Worked some Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop magic, and, voila!

I call it "The Dish Ran Away With the Spoon"

There are 2158 entries in this contest (yikes... it gets worse every time)

• 03/28/2023: Submissions close at 3pm EDT
• 03/30/2023: Public voting opens
• 04/04/2023: Public voting ends at 3pm EDT
• 04/06/2023: Spoonflower will announce the winner

I wasn't even close. I gave up looking to see how many votes I got. WAY too many entries.

The rules: Artists must use both East Fork glaze colors, Butter (#F4EDBA) and Piglet (#F2DDDD) as the main colors. Additional colors can be incorporated, but we recommend only adding neutrals and keeping it simple with no more than 4 colors total (not including black and white) to ensure your design coordinates well with East Fork products. Honoring the glaze colors is key!

#AtoZchallenge 2021: C is for Cardinal

 

The Fluevog Cardinal, part of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge.

Link to all the Redbubble things

Hand Drawn Floral Fail

Here's a Spoonflower challenge that I didn't rise to. A hand drawn floral.

What's wrong with it, you ask?

When I uploaded it (five minutes before the deadline), it looked like this:

Can you see where the repeat is bad?

ARGH!

I went back and fixed it and decided to leave off the line work. 

It didn't need to look "hand drawn" any more, I had missed the window of opportunity.

Spoonflower link

Maybe I'll add the lines back in. Not sure.
I'm liking the soft watercolor look: