A to Z Blogging Challenge 2025: W is for Fluevog Wanderer

 Day 23 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 Wanderer

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)

A to Z Blogging Challenge 2025: R is for Fluevog Roamer

 Day x 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 Roamer

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)

A to Z Blogging Challenge 2025: M is for Fluevog Martha

Day 13 [half-way day!] 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 Martha

In repeat

available on both Spoonflower and Redbubble

Here is the original sketch that I did on request

No way was I going to use any of those repeats for a background!

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)

#AtoZchallenge 2023: R is for Rory

The Fluevog Rory

My R entry for the A to Z Blogging Challenge, 2023 edition.
(Don't know what I'm talking about? Read this intro post or click here for the official hub).

#AtoZchallenge 2023: N is for Nimbus

 

The Fluevog Nimbus

My N entry for the A to Z Blogging Challenge, 2023 edition.
(Don't know what I'm talking about? Read this intro post or click here for the official hub).

#AtoZchallenge 2022: W is for Fluevog Waymouth

 

The Fluevog Waymouth 

Step and Repeat!

My W entry for the A to Z Blogging Challenge, 2022 edition.

(Don't know what I'm talking about? Read this intro post or click here for the official hub).

Just like last year, I've created an UNOFFICIAL Link Party for challenge participants.
Feel free to join in the fun! I also have a very long A-Z Blog Roll underneath this post.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

#AtoZchallenge 2022: R is for Fluevog Renee

The Fluevog Renee

Step and Repeat!

My R entry for the A to Z Blogging Challenge, 2022 edition.

(Don't know what I'm talking about? Read this intro post or click here for the official hub).

Just like last year, I've created an UNOFFICIAL Link Party for challenge participants.
Feel free to join in the fun! I also have a very long A-Z Blog Roll underneath this post.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

#AtoZchallenge 2022: A is for Fluevog Arlinda

 

Fluevog Arlinda in purple

Step [into a Fluevog shoe] and Repeat!

My A entry for the A to Z Blogging Challenge, 2022 edition.

(Don't know what I'm talking about? Read this intro post or click here for the official hub).

Just like last year, I've created an UNOFFICIAL Link Party for challenge participants.
Feel free to join in the fun! I also have a very long A-Z Blog Roll underneath this post.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Linking up with: 

Shelbee's On the Edge

Michelle's Potpourri

Revisiting and Revising the 2019 Fluevog Series Fluevog Aimee

 Did I mention that this is my next project?

Most of the 2019 A-Z Fluevogs didn't make it onto the Print on Demand sites.
I am now rectifying that.

Aimee, the first of the series, comes in tons of colorways. 
I did a poll in a Fluevog Facebook group to determine which combo to do first.

Purple/ Green was the clear winner.

All the Aimee Purple/Green Redbubble products

I changed it up for the Aimee tee shirts:

I did the same for myself in teal, back in 2019, to go with my Teal/Aqua Aimees.

The tees are super soft, the printing on tees, however, can be dodgy.
The art that I uploaded was definitely teal. It printed light blue.

The original sketches for 2019 were one-liners, meaning I didn't lift the marker from the page as I drew.
They have a more naive quality, which is one reason I chose to do the tees with a smaller scatter design. One giant Aimee graphic looked a bit scary!

#AtoZchallenge 2021: V is for Vanny

Purchase Redbubble Stuff

[5/26] RUNNING CHANGE

This month, I will be blogging my way through the alphabet,

as part of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge.

One Fluevog shoe at a time.

#AtoZchallenge 2021: G is for Gibson Swirl

 

This month, I will be blogging my way through the alphabet,

as part of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge.

One Fluevog shoe at a time.

Agapanthus Adventure

Growing out in the front yard is Agapanthus, or Nile Lily:

I used one as a brush to make textures

the setup

lots of texture experiments!

The instigation for this is my participation in the Textile Design Lab's Summer of Creativity.

Since I'm "working from home" three out of five days a week, I thought I'd take advantage of the Lab, which I've used sporadically over the years. The membership cost is not cheap ($490/year, $49/month-to-month) but a bargain if you compare it to the cost of the Otis Extension course I used to teach ($800/10 weeks).

The Summer of Creativity this year is themed on Self Care. Weekly, we get a creative exercise hosted by Rita Patel (the textures above are the result), then a design brief with inspiration pulled from WGSN.

This week's brief was to design patterns to be used on yoga mats and accessories. 

Tips on how to create mandalas were part of this as well.

My agapanthus Mandala as a placement print

I used one of the textures for the ground

It went over really well in the weekly crit.😄

As a result, the collection has made it onto print on demand products!

Socity6 Yoga Mat (and other things)

Four designs on Spoonflower (can't order until my sample strikeoffs come in)

Agapanthus Mandala Green

Agapanthus Mandala Purple

Agapanthus Purple Toss

Agapanthus Green Toss

Redbubble things (green ground):

link for green ground products

Redbubble things (purple ground):

link for purple ground products

I got a lot of mileage out of this design!

Looking forward to this week's assignment. The theme will be Humor.

Linking up with

Michelle's Creative Compulsions Linky Party
Shelbee's On the Edge of the Week

#AtoZchallenge W is for Fluevog Watusi

Fluvog Watusi link

There was a movie with a good Watusi scene. Anyone remember which? Was it Hatari?

#AtoZchallenge P is for Fluevog Portage

Fluevog Portage link

This one required a total redraw:

#AtoZchallenge I is for Fluevog Iguazu

Fluevog Iguazu link

#AtoZchallenge A is for Fluevog Aimee

Happy April 1st!
That means another month of Fluevogs A to Z commences.
I will once again go alphabetically through Fluevog shoe designs, some currently available, some discontinued.

The Fluevog Aimee starts our month:

I like how the shoe looks like it's melting in my progression of sketches.

I had a whole layout of all the shoe angles:

Fluevog link

Ultimately, I went with the top sketch and made the repeat with all the colorways that I could find:

What is this whole A to Z thing? Read more here!

#AtoZchallenge V is for Fluevog Vow

Fluevog Vow link

#AtoZchallenge T is for Fluevog Timbuktu

Fluevog Timbuktu link