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#printsinfashion | Flower Print Trend

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You an never go wrong with floral prints and according to Michael Kors’ Spring 17 Ready-to-Wear collection, this print is definitely in fashion!

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Bold Rose Midnight Purple Fabric

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Tea Rose Fabric

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Tulip Time Fabric

Use it to to create a beautiful dress like Eryn from Style Sew Me, a pleated bodice circle skirt dress like Oaishe or a chic Spring jacket like Jocy from Pink Chocolate Break. The possibilities are endless and Digital Fabrics likes to bring your creative ideas to life!




Get inspired with these floral print fabrics and shop the floral print trend in the Digital Fabrics shop. All our products are 100% Printed and made in Australia.

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Design your own leggings – How to prepare legging pattern for fabric printing in Photoshop

Garment making and production can be daunting and a complicated process especially placement or engineered printing. A lot of time and effort goes into research and understanding where to start. We have put together tutorials on how to design, work with and prepare legging pattern for digital placement fabric printing. For this tutorial  you need to be proficient in Photoshop and Illustrator or at least have basic knowlage. Our tutorial is based on industry standards. This technic can be applied to printing other products such as bikinis, t-shirts, singlets , dresses etc.

How to prepare legging pattern for fabric printing in Photoshop

Open the PDF file in Illustrator. You can purchase our digital leggings pattern on our website or use your own.

Copy and paste the size you would like to use within the same file, we have selected size 10.

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Delete all details and notches within the pattern piece and select the pattern shape and fill in black.

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while legging is selected copy and take note on the sizing.

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Open Photoshop and select a new artboard, keep the pixels and resolution the same, just make sure you’ve selected RGB color mode. Click OK and Paste pattern piece as a smart object, click enter to place.

Double check that the sizing is correct by selecting Image>image size, in this case it is only a few points off which will be fine.

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Next you’ll need to increase your artboard size to fit the other leg, change the width of your artboard to the width of the fabric you’d like to use and select the anchor points to extend from corner.

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Copy Layer and while selected transform (Ctrl+t), while still selected right click on top of the layer and select Flip Horizontally, you know have a pair.

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With both layers selected you will need to select transform again (ctrl+t) and while select cover over to rotate, when rotating make sure you hold down shift to make sure it rotates correctly.

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Copy and paste the design you would like on your leggings and place layer on top of the one of the pattern legs.

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Right click on the design layer and in the drop down menu select create clipping mask.

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Repeat for other leg

Group all layers and centre.

Your file is now ready to print!

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Soon you’ll have your printed fabric which you’ll be able to whip up into these comfy leggings

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10 Inspiring Bohemian Interiors + 3 Design Ideas

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Pinterest is such an inspiring platform and allows us to get so many great ideas for home decor, recipes, DIY and travel. One of the interior design trends that we’re loving is the bohemian design trend. It feels personal, cozy and vintage with worldly influences. With these easy 3 home decor trends you can add a bohemian feel to any small room instantly!

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Bohemian Design Tip 1: Colorful Pillows
Pillows are a great way to add more color to a room and make it extra cozy. Vary the colors and prints to add more dimension. And if you really want to add a personal touch, make your own cushion or pillow. Print your design, photograph or artwork and create a stylish statement to lighten up any room or make a perfect gift.

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Bohemian Design Tip 2: Textiles
Give new life to an old couch by layering textiles on them. See our selection of fabrics (also suitable for home decor) in our fabric shop. Contrast it with an eye-catching carpet.

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Bohemian Design Tip 2: Add plants
Not only are plants great to purify the air, they’re excellent to add more life to your room. And in a bohemian interior, plants are a must.

Get more bohemian decor inspiration below!

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DIY Bean Bag | DIY with Digital Fabrics

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Elba from Live Colorful created another colorful & creative DIY tutorial: a DIY Bean Bag. For this she used the Cheery fabric she designed and which is available in our fabric shop. Did you know that printing fabrics with us is super easy? Create your design, Upload and pay, Receive your fabric!

From DIY clothes to DIY Home Decor, our mission at Digital Fabrics is to help you to bring your creativity and your amazing ideas to life!

Elba got the inspiration for her DIY project from Pinterest, but added some fun curves to make it look more organic.


MATERIALS NEEDED:

  1. 2 meters of heavyweight fabric. Waratah drill (147 cm wide). Design: Cheery.
  2. 2 packs of bean bag chair refill (100 Liter refill bags)
  3. Sewing machine
  4. Thread
  5. Scissors
  6. Pins

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DIY Maxi Dress| DIY with Digital Fabrics

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A maxi dress is a wardrobe staple that every woman needs. It’s feminine, easy to wear and DIY.

Ovoke shows us how you can DIY a maxi dress with Digital Fabrics. Our mission at Digital Fabrics is to help you to bring your creativity our amazing ideas to life! Shop this and more fabrics in our Fabric Shop

Designing Fabric: How To Make A Repeat Pattern – Full Drop repeat in Photoshop

For this tutorial we have choose Full Drop pattern repeat. It is not an advanced technic, mostly for those who is not very proficient in Photoshop yet like to be creative and play.  This fabric pattern repeat tutorial mainly suitable for photographic and abstract images.

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Full Drop Repeats can also be referred to as Square repeat.

Open your artwork file in Photoshop. It’s always a good idea to check the resolution quality before beginning, a minimum of 150 dpi is recommended. Crop/alter the image as desired till you are happy with an artwork that will be tiled to repeat seamlessly.

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Original image – all four corners of image are relatively different and this is what will need to be fixed to create a seamless repeat.

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Original image with no fixing of the seams, looks mismatched.

Take note of the pixel size of your image (Image – Image Size)

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As well as HALF this amount. An easy way to do this is let the computer decide, halve the resolution amount (150 dpi in this case), and re-note the new pixel dimensions. Click cancel as you don’t want to actually change the resolution, just take note of it.

Now cut (OFFSET) the image in half both length and width ways. This will give the edges or seams that need to be fixed for seamless repeating. It is ideal to do this step with a flattened layer. (Filter – Other – Offset) Now put in the HALVED horizontal and vertical values determined in step 2 and make sure that Wrap Around is selected. Click OK.

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It is clear to see where the image needs to be fixed to create a seamless repeat, where no harsh contrasting lines can be seen as in the above image. There are several tools to use in photoshop that you can use to do this including (but not limited to) stamp, blur, patch, clone…enjoy the play!

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It is a good idea to offset the now fixed image, just to check the four points that you haven’t missed anything and nothing is looking odd.

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This now forms your Repeat Tile and this is the tile/image that is required when sending artwork to a printer or uploading it for fabric printing online.

SAVE!  Save file as (Artwork Name)_Repeat Tile
You must now check your repeat and to see it duplicated across the width and down the length of your fabric. An easy way to do so is to define your reworked artwork as a pattern. Menu>Edit>Define Pattern>Save as preferred name.
Open a new blank document with a set up reflecting something similar to a roll of fabric i.e. 145 x 100 cm depending on you repeat tile dimensions.
Menu>Edit>Fill>Select your saved pattern from the drop down box>OK

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(shown below is only 50 x 50 cm)

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Now you can use your repeat pattern or repeat tile for digital custom fabric printing.

 

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Colours To Inspire: Purple & Orange

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Purple & orange is not an obvious colour combo but the mix of the deep purple and warm orange makes for a beautiful colour contrast. Purple promotes peace of mind, harmony of emotions and contributes to stability while orange radiates warmth and happiness.

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You can find the colours purple and orange in our Tribal Sunset fabric. If want you fabric colours to be perfect, no problems. We offer colour matching services. We can either colour match to provided Pantone colour or physical swatch.

Find more color inspiration on the Digital Fabrics Pinterest page

 

DIY Connie Dress Sew along w/ Style Sew Me | DIY with Digital Fabrics

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Getting beautiful fabric is just the beginning because what will you make with it once you receive it? Eryn from Style Sew Me created a gorgeous DIY dress using Digital Fabrics Bold Rose Midnight Purple fabric. Our mission at Digital Fabrics is to help you to bring your creativity and your amazing ideas to life!

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To sew the dress she used her Connie Dress pattern which you can purchase through her site. And shop the Bold Rose Midnight Purple fabric and more in the Digital Fabrics shop.

See how you can DIY this look here

Super Easy Baby Blanket DIY

Katy Dee from Letter 11 recently printed custom fleece fabric with us to make comfy baby blanket for her little nephew and shared her creative process with us.  Get creative, make your own fleece blanket, its super easy!

You will need:

  • Custom printed fleece fabric, the beauty of this fabric is that you can make a blanket without using filling or backing fabric. One layer of fabric is enough to get comfy and snuggly. You can order your custom fabric here!
  • A sewing machine.
  • Bias Binding, you will need enough to go around the entire blanket. For this a 1.5m x 1m fleece blanket used just over 5m.
  • Dressmaking pins and scissors.

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  1. Cut your custom fleece fabric to the size and shape you want, in tutorial the blanket is 1.5m by 1m which is big and snuggly! A square would also be cute.
  2. Find a spot around half way down the longest length of blanket to start pinning the bias. To pin you fold it naturally in half with the flaps on the inside and wrap it around the blanket pinning all 3 layers together like a sandwich. Carry on pinning the binding all the way to the corner. baby blanket DIY, custom baby blanket, design your own baby blanket, custom fleece fabric, blanket fabric
  3. Now it’s time to begin sewing…. Using running stitch and the colour thread of your choice, pop the blanket in under the machine foot and do a few back stitches first to secure the bias.  Then continue sewing on the inside edge of the binding and down towards the corner following and removing the pins as you sew….baby blanket DIY, custom baby blanket, custom fleece fabric, blanket fabric
  4. To wrap the bias binding around that corner nice and neatly, fold the corners down to create a diagonal fold and pin this into place. At this point, also pin the binding along the length towards the next corner. Sew slightly into the diagonal fold, stop to rotate the blanket so you can sew another side of the blanket bias and continue to sew all around the fleece blanket. baby blanket DIY, custom baby blanket, custom fleece fabric, blanket fabric, print your own fabric
  5. When you are nearly at the point where you began sewing, do a few backstitches and remove the blanket. Cut the binding neatly so there is just a 4-5 cm length left. Fold this in on itself and pin down into place creating a neat hidden pocket. Now you can pop the blanket back in and sew that last little bit up! Don’t forget to finish with a few backstitches for safety!baby blanket DIY, custom baby blanket, custom fleece fabric, blanket fabric, custom blanketKatyDee_baby_blanket_playful_print_fabric_design_colourful_hearts_rainbow_fleece

And there you go, a super cute baby fleece blanket!

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50 Creative Ways to Wear a Scarf | Design Your Own Scarf Workshop

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Have you ever bought an item that you were excited about at first only to see it disappear in the back of your wardrobe a few weeks later? Buying new things is exciting but a lot of times we don’t wear it as much because we lack inspiration on how to wear it or don’t know how to style it with our existing wardrobe.

September marks a change of seasons. Some of us are transitioning into Fall while others are getting ready for Spring season. No matter what season it is, a scarf is one of those accessories you can use all year long and here at Digital Fabrics we have a cool workshop coming on September 17 that allows you to design your own scarf! It will be your design, your print, your colors, the ultimate expression of your personal style wrapped into a scarf. Sign up HERE

To get you inspired in the meanwhile we wanted to share 50 creative ways that you can wear your Digital Fabrics scarf!

In this video Wendy’s Lookbook shows you 25 ways to tie a scarf.

And if you also want to tie your scarf as a top, skirt or body wrap check out Pink Chocolate Break’s video with 25 styling tips.

Which look is your favorite? Let us know in the comments below!

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