Take a walk into nature with me!
Surround yourself with designs & colors that inspire you to explore and to dream about your next adventure, nearby or a far.
Take a walk into nature with me!
Surround yourself with designs & colors that inspire you to explore and to dream about your next adventure, nearby or a far.
See what Cilia Breathes looks like on home decor items..
Trilobite dig is one of my most popular Niche fabrics.As a child I dug for fossils, with the best teacher/class I ever had. Have always loved them. available here in my SpoonFlower & Society6 shops.
*I’ve made smaller scales due to requests for face mask fabric.
Retro Orchard
I have a small backyard orchard with 40+ fruit trees. This is an abstract of my home orchard. I love this as a blanket/throw! (available on Society6)
“Time to ReBoot your soul?” is available in my Society6 Shop and on SpoonFlower. These boots of mine have done lots of hiking & backpacking in places like the Appalachian trail, Adirondack Mtns, white Mtns, Tetons, Sierras, & even the Alps!
Primordial Sea was one of the first designs I made after learning how to use layers in Adobe Illustrator. I think this design was just waiting in me to be released!
Save the Vaquitas, Did you know there are only a few of them left? They are the smallest of the dolphins and have been decimated by net fishing.
This reminds me of the many Icelandic sweaters I have knitted. Available in several colors.
Ocean Currents: I live near Monteray Bay, California which has one of the largest kelp forests. These underwater forests play important role in our ocean ecosystem.
Simply Bees! Let’s do what we can to save them! I keep my garden as organic as possible!
Toothy Smile Flowers was designed thinking about the big toothy smiles of some of the kids I’ve worked with.
To step into our kitchen is to step into our backyard orchard & garden.
The Mediterranean climate of the SF Bay area allows us to grow apricots, figs, oranges, pomegranates, avocados, apples, pears, Italian prunes, plums, as well as many herbs and seasonal vegetables.
The orchards colors, shapes, & tastes reach our kitchen table, & inspire my designs.
My “Fig Dance Design”, with some Pomegranates from our orchard!
Fig Dance tea towels are also available custom printed and sewn to order at Spoonflower. (for $19 USD at the writing of this). Check it out!
Whisky Before Breakfast
The name of this design is a play off a BlueGrass/Old Time Fiddle Tune “Whiskey Before Breakfast”. It is part of my Whisky Before Breakfast Collection.
Folk Art - Shaker door knobs in 3 colors: Light & Airy Spring, the Reds of Fall, & the Blues of Winter.
Click on the fabric name above to see how they each look in fabric & home decor. I sewed these myself, but you can also now buy them ready made just for you from SpoonFlower. All made right here in the US!
An oven mitt I made from my “Do You Measure Up?” design that is from my Whiskey for Breakfast Collection. With my morning coffee. : )
SpoonFlower is a small eco-minded, print on demand fabric/printing company located in the US.
Their weekly contests/challenges provide inspiration & I love that they push me to constantly produce new designs!
Here’s the link to the main SpoonFlower voting page. See below for my current & recent entries. Votes are always appreciated & it’s a great way to view lots of beautiful designs!
Banana Roosters, Hidden Kauai. Are these feathers or bananas?
Bluesy Cat: Folk Art, Dark blue, was for a Limited palette challenge and is large scale for duvets, throws, etc. four blues were the only colors allowed, no tints!
You can also find other versions of this in my ‘Cats’ Collection
Here Kitty, Kitty is a design I made for a friend’s cat that was lost for nine full days. She is home recovering, after losing lots of weight, but is doing well! You can find other versions of this & the coordinate background called ‘Cat Scratch’ in my ‘Cats’ Collection.
The lively Jewel Tones of my large scale ‘Ginkgo Jewel’ is not part of my usual wheelhouse palette, but it was lots of fun to design!
Folk Art - Shaker door knobs - Spring Pastels was inspired by a trip to a Shaker village in New England. The Fall Reds and the Winter Blues versions are in my Shaker collection. Now available in 3 scales/sizes.
Our black cat is here modeling his 2020 Calendar called On Kitty Time. Don’t cats always seem to be in the way? It is available and will be printed and sewn for each order in my SpoonFlower shop (currently under $20 USD) They ship world wide!
DIno Strata: Reds on Sands and other colors (blue, green, dark, etc.) can be found in my Dinosaurs Dinos Collection. Please contact me if you want to purchase a color & scale that I don’t have posted!
Apricots Unlimited my new design for the Unlimited pallets challenge. I’ve been busy canning apricots from my trees. Head over to SpoonFlower today to vote and see lots of designs. (oh my > 800!)
Puzzled Triangles? Is my take on the Minimalist Abstract contest. Voting open May 16th-21st, 2019 . Head over to SpoonFlower to >>Vote<< Your support is always appreciated! : )
Tlingit Feathers design and Tlingit Feathers Collection
I made this using sunscreen fabric and some lavender flowers- I then quilted the piece and then used a portion of the piece to create this tile design.
Tree of Life -Blues In memory.
Available at Roostery.com as pre-made items on Spoonflower as fabric.
I have been a “maker” since a very early age. As a young child, I went door to door selling looped potholders that I had woven on an old metal frame.
Designing my own fabric was always my dream. In late 2015 I took the first of many surface pattern design classes & I fell absolutely in love with it! I now get to sew with my own fabrics thanks to SpoonFlower!
I can sew pretty much anything & I love to learn something new with each item I make. I have dabbled in fashion design, weaving, and designing bags, backpacks and bike packs. I lost count of how many tea towels, quilts, hats, or scarves, that I have sewn or knitted! The onset of COVID quickly turned my studio into a face mask sewing production line.
I hope, through SpoonFlower, Society6, & my collaborations, that some of my designs will reach your home and hopefully, lighten your day a bit! So far, I know they are in Australia, Sweden, Morocco, Canada, US, and through one of my collaborators (RipSkirt), traveling the world! :)
With every purchase of fabric or item, I wonder, who bought it, what will they make, or where will they wear or put it. Where will it make it’s home? I am always thrilled to learn about and see things that you made!
This leafy design reminds me of looking up to the sky from beneath a tree, as the wind blows; breathe.
It is now available in many colors. You can find it in my SpoonFlower Damask Inspired collection.
You can also see or purchase it from RipSkirt Hawaii in Damask Citrus or Damask Midnight.
I’ve sewn well over 100 face masks. All donated (If I know that someone has the means, I let them know that they give a small amount to their local food bank, if they want to. Any type of essential workers I just thank them for their work! :).
If you want to find fabrics scaled smaller for facemarks or quilting, or to purchase a sewn to order face mask, from my Spoonflower shop here’s the link: Cleolovescolor Face Mask Project Collection.
A tea towel made from “Cuppa Cappuccino Joe” fabric.
Tea towels I made from my “Geese Fly Over” fabric collection.
A baby quilt I designed and made using a Grateful dead bear and Flying geese designs. All cottons.
Pacothepuppycat in a French Beret that I made for him. (follow him on IG ;)
Detail of a knitted wool shawl .
A Lace shawl I knit &laid out in the fresh air for blocking. The pattern was from the book ‘Victorian Lace Today’ by Jane Sowerby.
A brain hat I knit with rainbow colors!
Detail of a knit shawl edging.
Science hats that I made / designed (ant and yeast band) and pussy hats.
Napkins I made out of a Black & White version of my “Eb & Flow” design now available at my SpoonFlower shop.
Stay young at heart, no matter your age!
Pink, Purple, & Puppies - This was my assignment from a 6 year old to make a design with her 3 favorite things! I made this pillow for her from SpoonFlower 100% cotton fabric.
Designed for the ‘Headbands for Hope’ Challenge at SF. Such a great organization to support! They sell headbands and give the proceeds to kids who have cancer. This was specifically designed for kids!
I like to push myself to learn other styles & show some of my WIP.
Water Color Lillies
‘What’s in your bag?’ Was a class mini-assignment from Make Art That Sells (MATS) BootCamp/class.
Aint’ Nobody Here But Us Chickens - Tea Towels
This trio collection was voted in the top 10 in the MOYO Kitchen Crazy Brief in 2016 by Hallmark UK. The designs are (left to right):
- Do You Measure Up?
- Whisky Before Breakfast
- Spice of Life
Spanish Tiles: Los cuadrados son círculos-Multi
Portugal & Spain are amazing countries - these tiles I designed remind me of my trips there. They are available in several colors in my SpoonFlower shop. (Click on the name above and you will be taken to my Tiles Collection.
On a beautiful clear night in Paris we climbed the 284 steps up the spiral staircase up to to top of the Arc de Triomphe to view the tower in the moonlight. This is my abstract of the spiral staircase based on a photo I took of the staircase.
This is a “mock-up” of my Bohemian Girl design on the duvet.
Hiking up to a mountain peak in the Adirondacks of NY state, some friends and I found only deep fog at the top! Absolutely no views of the colorful fall foliage or the mountain ranges beyond.
I asked everyone to point to their favorite mountian peak (though we couldn’t see anything!. :o Later, I converted the photos to mock-ups. Check back for more!
Design Info: Falling for You is part of my Nature Lover Group of Designs.
This design is from my Fig Dance Collection
My Dino Strata Design seems perfect for my mountain top mock-up. This design is part of my Fossils collection/ group.
Yes, a pair of these boots are what I wore on these hikes! These boots of mine have done lots of hiking: Appalachian trail, Adirondack Mtns, White Mtns, Tetons, Sierra’s, many National Parks, and even the Alps!
Maybe I’ll see you out on the trail? I named this “Time to ReBoot your soul?”
Now for the real story…
The top photo is the fog we actually saw after hiking for hours to the mountain top. The bottom pic is what we saw the next day from another mountain peak! It was a bit more rewarding after along hike, though, it’s the journey that counts.
{Today -Jan. 2021, in this pandemic, I would give so much to be with these friends again! Stay safe everyone!}
I love carving linocut stamps- these were inspired by the fruit in my home orchard & were used to design my collection of “Orchard Dreams” designs.
Vintage Christmas - “What's in Grandma's Christmas box?”
Holidays are always a special time to be with family and friends. The words I think of when designing for most holidays are peace, hope, friendship, family, laugher, & sharing.
Years ago I was a calligrapher. I loved the meditation of creating each letter & how it related to it’s neighbors. since I started surface pattern design I am having fun with new types of brushes, pens, & apps for developing fonts.
This was one of my Mom’s favorites sayings.
