Fabric

I've longed to print out some of the patterns I've created onto fabric. A good while back I read about Spoonflower, an online site where you can upload designs and have custom fabric printed up. They're still in beta, but I hope they do well.

Right now it costs about $18 to have a yard of quilting-weight cotton fabric printed up, with an added $3 for shipping; a reasonable price, compared to other places I've looked at. Still, that's $21 just in costs to me, and I'd have to pad that price to even begin to pay myself for designing anything. I'm not sure how much someone would be willing to pay for designed fabric, and the usual question of 'how much do I charge' comes up yet again.

On the other hand, once the site leaves beta, someone would be able to order their desired fabric to be printed up and sent to them. (Right now, you can only order your own fabrics.) That means a marketplace in which I don't have to order and keep inventory -- and that's the appealing thing about the service.



I think I will have to order a few patterns up, just for myself -- like maybe this pattern I use on my business cards. I'll post here, if and when I do!