*image via Crafterhours
Yeah!!!!! I am super excited about this giveaway and I know you are as well, I can feel it!
I will be interviewing Kim Kight, from TrueUp and author of the newly released, The Field Guide to Fabric Design, and I want your input. So…I am giving away a copy of The Field Guide to the reader who submits the best interview question. Kim and I will be discussing her new book, the quilting industry, and trends she saw at the recent International Quilt Show in Houston. So this is your chance to get involved!
The Deadline is December 8th and the winner will be announced on December 12th. Please post your questions for Kim in the comment box below. I look forward to hearing from you!!
20 Comments
December 1, 2011 at 5:26 pm
What have been some of your rookie mistakes?
December 1, 2011 at 6:20 pm
What is the best format to submit a textile design in? By that I mean best dimensions, digital (jpg?) or print, and should it be shown in repeat or not.
December 1, 2011 at 6:50 pm
What is the hardest part about making your fabric stand out when selling it?
December 1, 2011 at 9:38 pm
How do you select your colours? Do you have a method, particular colours you always favour, or is it completely random?
December 1, 2011 at 10:23 pm
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take a look!
Bye
December 1, 2011 at 11:42 pm
Hi Kim, I would like to know how you keep inspired all the time?
December 2, 2011 at 12:06 am
What advice would you give a fabric designer to be ?
December 2, 2011 at 3:07 am
Do you feel textile design is an art or a craft? and Do you feel that the business of textile design is limited by consumer preference or are do you feel you have freedom to share your point of view?
December 2, 2011 at 5:32 am
My question is this: If you want to be a professional (that is, design for one of the big fabric companies) fabric designer, what’s the best way to go about it? Should you put together a bunch of collections and send off a query letter and portfolio to your favorite fabric companies, as a graphic designer or illustrator might do to solicit work? Should you enter dozens of Spoonflower Fabric of the Week contests, win a few, sell a lot of fabric, and wait patiently to be discovered? Should you have a blog and Facebook page and write about fabric, post designs and projects, and cultivate a following of about 30 people (okay, maybe that’s just MY blog & FB page…)? I’m a lifelong artist, have a degree in painting & drawing, have been a graphic designer/illustrator for 16 years, won a few awards including Spoonflower FOTW, love fabric and pattern (of course!), and would LOVE to be a REAL fabric designer. I just don’t know what to do to be one!
December 2, 2011 at 11:10 pm
How do you negotiate price of a pattern?
December 2, 2011 at 11:12 pm
Hello,
Do you remember the moment when your love of fabric shifted from being a hobby to realising that it would be your profession? Or was it just a natural progression? And inside that evolution was there a mentor?
D
December 3, 2011 at 3:19 am
What was the first fabric you hoarded, and how long did you have it/have you had it?
(love trueup! one of my top 3 blogs)
December 3, 2011 at 1:32 pm
Hi there,
I love to sketch and doodle. I was wondering what do you use to redraw your designs? do you use illustrator? Do you use a stylus (like a wycom) or your mouse?
love your designs.
Cleo
December 5, 2011 at 6:11 pm
How do you reconcile designing for the consumer/client and designing for the environment?
December 7, 2011 at 2:34 pm
What was your ah ha moment that told you this was the career choice for you?
December 7, 2011 at 11:17 pm
If you could give just one piece of advice for a novice surface designer, what would that be?
December 8, 2011 at 11:38 am
When do you know when to stop fiddling a design? When is the moment to say OK that is finished now!?
December 8, 2011 at 12:44 pm
Hi Kim! I’m so curious to know more about this modern sewing/modern craft movement and the new markets and opportunities for fabric designers that are opening up around it. How exactly is this new market currently related to the quilting market? Can you give a brief history of this movement and/or point us in the direction of sources where we can learn more about it? Thanks!
And thanks Michelle for the opportunity to participate in the interview!
December 8, 2011 at 8:24 pm
How is fabric design different from other pattern/product design work? Why fabric design?
December 9, 2011 at 10:55 am
what completely excellent questions, all of you! The competition is stiff…
My question is – do you more often design from something that inspires you first, and then find applications and outlets for it? or (especially as you are a more established artist/craftsperson) do you mostly get given a brief that you design to?