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Cynthia Frenette Artist and Fabric Designer
Artist, graphic designer, fabric designer
It’s Friday!
Have you heard about To Boston with Love, the fantastic project created by Berene?
I did my 2 little flags to add to the mix and sent them off last night to make their way to Boston for the big event. So very cool and inspiring!
There’s still a bit of time if you want to join in, check out the info on this blog post for more info.
In other news, I have been making up 5″ charm packs of my vintage sheets collection. I know, oh my gawd I cut into them! But that is what they are for, to use and enjoy, right! And why not share the love with other vintage sheet lovers!
I have one pack left of this batch, check out the selection:
There are 33 different prints plus 3 random duplicates to make it 36 pieces. I’m selling them for $10/each + $5 shipping, if you’re interested in the last one I have, send me an email & we can arrange the deets! I will have more soon too.
The weather here has been lovely and summery this past week. I look out my office window to this lovely warm sunny view…
and it is always freezing cold in our office, so we sneak outside for a few minutes here and there for a sunshine break, toss the ball for Starry, and get warmed up. Lovely!
And lastly, yesterday a chance stop at the local thrift store yielded me this!
A teeny ceramic Christmas tree. for $3! Score! Love! Maybe I’ll put it on my desk to being some cheer year round, hehe!
And that’s what’s been going on around here, along with a bunch of regular work, artwork, getting ready for presentations of my work, you get the idea.
Happy Friday to you!
Introducing viXXin!
A while ago, my super talented and amazing friend Vicki and I decided that we should collaborate on some fabric designs. We’ve never met in person, and I think if we did, watch out! You might remember her as having sent us a tin of All Day Breakfast, straight from the UK, after we had seen it on Coronation Street and were wondering if it was a for real thing over there. She said it was and sent us a can- although cautioned us to maybe not actually try it, eep- I can imagine it maybe makes perhaps a nice hangover brekkie- or maybe not…..
Anyway, since then we have kept in touch and shared an amusing email or ten, and decided to collaborate on some fabricy goodness via Spoonflower. We decided to call ourselves “viXXin” as a loose combination of our names with two big kisses “XX” in the middle. Fun or what? After deciding what design theme to do, we settled on “Roller Derby”, and we each designed a set of elements in black and white and emailed them to each other to make full on fabric designs with. No rules other than have fun and use the any or all of the elements as you wish. And here’s what we came up with, these are the ones I did using a combination of both of our elements…I think the skully roses one is my favorite!
We’re both so excited with our each of our designs that we’re doing a new theme, (still secret but it’s really cool trust me!) with our separate elements due this month then designs next! How much fun is that? SO much fun!
Here are a couple more detailed shots, and you can see them all in all of their glory and order them to use for your projects, in our combo shop, viXXin, on Spoonflower here!!
If you do order some and sew up a quilt, or jammie pants, or a bag or two, or whatever your derby doll loving heart can dream up, we’d love to see what you do with our designs! You can post finished images right on our Spoonflower shop pages under each design, so go for it, we’d love to see!
Check it out, viXXin on Spoonflower!!