Trial trails

I've been aware of Spoonflower since their early days and have always thought the possibility of printing fabric you've designed yourself was super-exciting.

Have I done anything about it apart from subscribe to their blog and emails?

Errr.... no. (Although printing this was a possibility that I haven't yet followed up.)

But this year I vowed things would be different. I was going to print something on Spoonflower, dammit!

Not being one to make life easy for myself I decided yesterday that entering one of their contests might be the push I need to actually do something. The only problem is the contest I've decided to enter (Bugs) closes on February 1st at 12 noon. Luckily that's USA EST 12 noon which gives me a bit longer, but not much.

I started trials of my design yesterday evening. This is as far as I got (very very rough):Notice something? Yep, a complete lack of bugs.

There will be ants, I promise. Once I've worked out the trails. And the trials. And why on earth I decided to try pattern matching gingham for my first foray...