NAMA COLLECTION FEATURED ON SPOONFLOWER'S NEW COTTON LAWN FABRIC EDITORIAL

I have great news to share, my Nama Collection was again chosen to be in a publication.
I never thought when I was creating the nama collection, that would bring me so many surprises and so much joy, I'm very grateful too.

Spoonflower has introduced the new Cotton lawn fabric a lightweight and buttery soft, 100% combed-cotton fabric.
Two of the patterns were used to create a beautiful tunic.

You can take a look to the complete Flickr album where you can find my design along other great designs.

 A video introducing the cotton lawn fabric-lovely designs - I love the dress!!

Here is the description of the cotton law at Spoonflower .

Our lawn is a lightweight and buttery soft, 100% combed-cotton fabric. Its slightly translucent quality and soft drape make it perfect for delicate home decor and lightweight apparel, while its pleasant hand lends itself to quilting projects. Produced with our Ultra-Color technology, the printed fabric offers vibrant color and strong wash durability. 

• 42" wide printable area (107 cm)
• 2.3 oz per square yard
• Thread count: 100 x 95
• Estimated shrinkage: 4% length, 4% width
• Appropriate for quilting, dresses, blouses, kids’ clothes, curtains, napkins, placemats, and pillows.

Wash separately in cool or warm water on a gentle/delicate cycle. Machine dry on a low temperature setting. Spoonflower recommends washing before use with phosphate free detergent. 

 And here are the links to buy the Nama Collection fabric in case you want to work on new projects or recreate the beautiful tunic, perfect for this coming summer.

www.spoonflower.com/fabric/3280237

www.spoonflower.com/fabric/3280255

Penguin Colony made the Top 10 designs of Spoonflower Contest

I decided at the start of this new year to be more active in participating on the different design contests that they're held by different companies.
It is a good exercise to practice different topics, topics that maybe wouldn't cross my mind to design and to work on projects for different markets (apparel, fabric, stationary, etc..), also is a good way to  get exposure for your work and the best part is to connect with fellow designers and share the process.
Once a week Spoonflower holds a design contest built around different themes and approaches, is always fun and inspiring to see how the designers interpret the topic and how creative they are.
This was my first contest entry of the year and the challenge was Penguins.
It was an an opportunity to create a pattern design with an animal theme  (my first!) definitely  a good stretch for me, lately is been all about designing florals so i needed to step out of my comfort zone.
It was fun to design the penguins I had a wonderful time and the final repeat remind me of a penguin colony.

Penguin colony by Mayacoa©

Was a surprise after the week's voting that my design made it into the top 10 designs of the contest.

 I was jumping in joy to see that my design was voted and liked by the spoonflower's community and it was a good start to the world of competitions.

Being in the top ten gives you the courage and inspiration to keep participating  is a great feeling but my main purpose this year with participating in the competitions is to get knowledge, learn and build my portfolio..and if a win or get into the top ten again..well that's good too :).

The top 10 designs of the contest

Finished project by a Spoonflower's customer, looks great!

Penguin Colony fabric at my Spoonflower shop

All images, patterns and designs © 2015Mayacoa, you may not reproduce or sell in any way.Thank you.
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Falling Leaves Collection

Falling Leaves Collection is a collection of five floral coordinating patterns, in three color ways , Golden , Amber and Crisp.
I was inspired by the falling leaves and the different Autumn colors that I found on the parks or the side walk in the city.

You can take a look in more detail of the collection at my Behance portfolio.

Falling Leaves Golden

Falling Leaves Amber

Falling Leaves Crisp

The designs can be used on a variety of products such as soft furnishings, homewares, surface and fashion.These designs are available for licensing.

Designing surface patterns from scratch blog tour.

Hello and welcome! To my stop on the designing surface patterns from scratch blog tour by bonnie christine at going home to roost. Don’t forget to check yesterday’s blog by Harriet’s HiddenBlog and tomorrow's Shimmerskys Handmade Items.

Last month I found out about Bonnie Christine’s course on Creative Live about Designing Surface Patterns from Scratch and I participate in the live class, It came at the right time and the following days were filled with many aha moments!.

Before taking the course, I was very limited on my creative process from how to create technical repeat patterns to how to use illustrator to create artwork.

Bonnie's class was great, she is a great inspirational and technical teacher and taught us how to get inspiration, create mood boards and sketches , how to work on illustrator to create artwork and the process of creating technical repeat patterns.

So after I took the course on a beautiful Sunday morning, camera in hand I went to the French romantic park that's near my home and took pictures of the flowers, the blue sky, the park, and was lucky to find a full bloom Magnolia.

Back at home I created my mood board and the color palette from the pictures.

The I started creating the process based on Bonnie's teachings in how to create artwork from photographs in Illustrator and then creating the  technical repeating patterns.

I created a collection with the main  pattern using the different flowers and the I created four coordinates to go with.

I'm very happy about the result and is all thanks to Bonnie's Christine Design surface pattern from scratch course.

I will be using this collection as a part of my portfolio and on my society6 and my spoonflower shop in a different home products and fabrics.
After this learning experience I'm looking forward to creating more collections  based of what I have learned.

Bonnie has offered a free month’s membership to her Roost Tribe to all the readers! So make sure to take advantage of this opportunity and start enjoying the benefits of this membership.

Howe Collection pattern design

Summer is a time for celebrations, barbecues and time to spend having fun with friends and family. This new pattern design is inspired by that, I have done a basic stripe pattern combining orange, dark blue and yellow, then I have created  the starfish motive with the same color theme and combined them.

This design collection is available as fabric and in a variety of Homewear products.

Cushions at my Bespo shop

Kitchen ware on my Bespo Shop

Collection of three coordinating patterns, the designs can be used on a variety of products such as soft furnishings, homewares, surface and fashion.This design is available for licensing

Eryn Collection New pattern design.

The Eryn collection is a geometrical pattern design, that comes in 6 different color backgrounds.
I created the geometrical pattern with the madpattern, a perfect tool to create symmetric patterns and some of the background colors are color trends from the pantone S/S2014.
You can find this pattern in different textile and surface supports on my shops.

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Society6 shop ©mayacoa

Bespo Shop ©mayacoa

Society6 ©mayacoa

Arbia Collection- S/S14 Pattern/textile Collection

Here's the Arbia collection, one of the pattern/ textile collections that I designed for this S/S 2014.
This beautiful floral design is inspired by flowers that I photographed at Parc Güell in Barcelona.

It comes in five colorways (nude, placid, green, blossom, tropical).
You can find the textile design at my Spoonflower shop, and you can find on different surface designs at my Bespo Shop and Society6.

bespo.co.uk/mayacoa

Society6.com/mayacoa

Bespo.co.uk/mayacoa

Society6.com/mayacoa