A to Z Blogging Challenge 2025: C is for Fluevog Cleo

 Day 3 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 Cleo

I originally sketched this in 2017, my first year of sketching Fluevogs

My technique has changed a bit!
Then it was sketching with a brush marker,

Now, it's all digital - with the shoes sketched in Procreate.

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.
It's a lot of fun! Give it a try! You still have time to sign up!
Here's the link to the Master List, with all the official participants (link)

The Peach Fuzz Challenge!

Time I entered another Spoonflower Challenge. 

VOTE HERE! The results are in! 

there were 1800 entries

This one involved Pantone's Color of the Year for 2024.

Peach Fuzz!

We were limited to this palette, plus tints:

I recolored a leopard print from my archives:

see the winners

I already uploaded this to Redbubble, so you can have all the things in Peach Fuzz Leopard ;-)

Redbubble Link

What do you think of Peach Fuzz? Would you wear this color?

Linking up with

Shelbee's On the Edge

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:

#AtoZchallenge X is for Fluevog Xie Xie

Fluvog Xie Xie link