Floribunda Fabric Design (Graduated Tint Green)

Floribunda Fabric Design (Graduated Tint Green), originally uploaded by confections.

Featured today is a very rough first draft, sketched and cut and pasted into a tile, for use in a fabric design to be printed at Spoonflower. Lots of tweaking and revising ahead.... The low-tech method I used to create the repeat is described at Design Sponge.

Vintage Velvet Japanese Millinery Rosebuds

Vintage Velvet Japanese Millinery Rosebuds, originally uploaded by confections.

I found these at a vendor's booth at the Road to California quilt show in Ontario, California, close to a decade ago. They are a precious part of my stash of notions and trims. I was thinking of incorporating them into an art yarn, but haven't spun it up yet.