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GIVEAWAY! Win Halloween Print Fabrics/Leggings

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WIN! Halloween is around the corner and we want to celebrate with this week’s giveaway! Digital Fabrics prints all sorts of designs on fabric so we wanted to celebrate with Halloween print fabrics and 2 lucky winners will get 1m! OR we will print the Halloween print on matt lycra with leggings shape so the winner only needs to cut and create it.

You probably have several ideas in mind but maybe you don’t know where to start as you never designed a print. Digital Fabrics helps you bring your creative ideas to life and this week we used Picmonkey to make it happen.

The Halloween print designs were created by Jocelina Paixão Fortes, the creative behind the sewing & travel channel Pink Chocolate Break and webshop Paixão Fortes. She created these fun & spooky prints with Picmonkey.

“Picmonkey is a great tool to create unique designs with as they have custom layers and visuals for every festive occasion from Halloween to Valentine’s Day. I used the edit option and choose the Halloween prints available and pasted it on a white canvas.”

Now join us on Facebook & Instagram and win 2m of Halloween Print fabrics! The winner will be announced on Wednesday!

If you don’t win, don’t worry as these Halloween print fabric designs will be available in the DF fabric shop for purchase.

Good luck!

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How to prepare a layout 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 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 a layout/mark up legging pattern for fabric printing in Photoshop

Once you’ve completed the steps in the tutorial ‘How to use legging pattern in Photoshop’ You may want to print more than 1 design or more than 1 size, the most economic way to do this is to create a mark up/placement layout to have printed.

The following are instructions on how to set up in Photoshop, but could easily be done in Illustrator.

Start off by renaming the pattern layers to insure that you always have a pair of leggings.

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If you are only wanting the same size with different designs you can just Duplicate the leg layers. If you’d like to bring in different sizes you will need to repeat the steps in ‘How to use legging pattern in Photoshop’

In this tutorial we will be using the same size 10 but printing in new designs.

On the same artboard move files to the left hand side. you will notice that you can only comfortable fit 1 pair within the 147cm width with the current orientation; however there is a lot of wastage as illustrator below.

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Like a Jigsaw puzzle you will now need to start moving the patterns, you will need to make sure that you keep in mind that your grain line is parallel to the selvage. To do this, select the leg you’d like to rotate (select both layers) press Ctrl+t to open up the transform tool and while holding down shift rotate the image 360′ and make sure to move the pattern piece as close as possible to other leg (zoom in to make sure it is not overlapping)

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You can now start bringing in the other size 10 designs and play around with the layout. It’s best that you make the art board slightly longer than needed and once you’ve set up all the designs crop the excess.

Make sure you zoom in and double check that you haven’t overlapped any areas, when you are happy with the layout save as a JPG, TIFF or PDF.

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You’re now on your way to have custom printed fabric which you will be able to make into comfy leggings.

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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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DIY Bean Bag | DIY with Digital Fabrics

DIY Bean Bag
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

DIY Maxi Dress with Digital Fabrics
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 – Mirror Repeat Tutorial in Photoshop

Mirror repeat technic is one of the easiest way to make a repeat pattern with any digital image, photographs, graphic artwork or painting. Mirror repeat creates an interesting effect, simple and quick, doesn’t require great Photoshop skills. To design your own fabric you can either use our Photoshop tutorial or Fabric Uploader with an instant Mirror repeat option.

Mirror Repeat Tutorial in Photoshop

Open your artwork in Photoshop, make any adjustments to the dimensions (width/height) at this stage.

Double click (press OK) the background layer in your layers panel so it is no longer locked.

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Increase your artboard size, go to Menu > Image > Canvas Size > double the width of the canvas size making sure to click the left arrow so the increase only happens to one side.

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Now duplicate the original layer by clicking and dragging it to the second from the right icon at the base of the layers panel.

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With the duplicated layer selected go to Menu>Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontally>OK. Drag the flipped layer across (holding down SHIFT key) so the layer slots into place in line with the original layer. Make sure to zoom into mirroed join beetwin the images to double check that no pixels are out. Merge layers by sellecting them both, right click and choose Merger Layers option.

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Repeat this step again, but mirroring the length/height of the image. When you transform the duplicated layer, make sure to flip VERTICALLY before dragging into place.

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Flatten the layers, right click on one of the layers, select Flatten Image option. This is now your mirrored repeat tile that repeats
seamlessly on all four sides! Now you can use your design 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

13 Halloween Print Ideas for Fabric

13 Halloween Prints Ideas for Fabric
Halloween is one of those holidays you can go all out when it comes to creativity. From DIY Halloween costumes to spooky table runners, it’s the perfect event to go all out and add a personal touch to your outfit and your home. Our mission at Digital Fabrics is to help you to bring your creativity and your amazing ideas to life!

If you’re having a themed Halloween party creating custom made fabrics is the way to go to make it cohesive, fun and have the colors that you want. But what do you choose?

If you’re in need for some fun Halloween prints ideas for fabrics check out these 13 ‘scary’ designs below for inspiration. Create your design, Upload and pay, Receive your fabric!
All our products are 100% Printed and made in Australia

13 Halloween Prints Ideas for Fabric

Photo credit: Hubpages

13 Halloween Prints Ideas for Fabric

Photo credits: Print Pattern

13 Halloween Prints Ideas for Fabric

Photo credit: Babalisme

13 Halloween Prints Ideas for Fabric

Photo credit: Pinterest

13 Halloween Prints Ideas for Fabric

Photo credit: Me in Lila Park

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

DIY Curtains with Live Colorful + Giveaway | DIY with Digital Fabrics

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If you’re looking to give a bright make over to your home, this DIY project is for you! Curtains are a great way to add color and pattern to your home and they are so easy to make.
Elba from Live Colorful shows us how, with her easy DIY curtains tutorial, which she made using the Lemonade fabric she created with Digital Fabrics!


A couple months ago she moved into her new home, but if you’ve ever been through it you know how hectic a move can be. She had her eye on the ugly gray-green curtains that she wanted to change and now, thanks to the Lemonade fabric she created with Digital Fabrics, she had the perfect DIY opportunity to give this space a bright and personal touch.

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Elba hasn’t been able to find prints that she loves, so inspired by that, she created the LIVE COLORFUL collection which features bright and happy prints that are perfect for many DIY home decor projects.

You can also win 2 meters of one of her designs so make sure you go check it out.

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