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This is going to be my first attempt at printing something using the services of Spoonflower.com. Right now, they print a pattern on 100% Kona cotton for you. It’s quilter’s cotton so it’s a decent fabric to work with. They do plan to add other fabrics to their offerings and I’m hoping they do either canvas or a 100% linen (I do so lurve linen).

The ink they use tends to be less saturated than monitor colors so I increased the saturation of my graphics by 50%. I do like my colors to be more earthy. Hopefully this works. If the fabric looks too white and clean, I’ll wet it and wash it with days-old coffee. Then it’ll smell good, too. Hehe.

What I plan to do is mount this on 3′x3′ canvas stretcher frame and put it over the fireplace mantel which, whenever I look at it, cries out for something to grace it.

*Maybe* they’ll let me print on the sample of canvas that they have. It might be big enough. I’ll send it off to print as soon as I know what fabric they’ll let me have then it’ll take up to three weeks to get it back.

If it looks really good and the inks are relatively lightfast then this would be a great way to get artwork on a canvas even though I would still miss the oil paint smell.