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A lot of crafters Christmas and winter due to all the wonderful decorations you can make.  Santa's, Mrs. Claus, angels, carolers, gingerbread-men, Christmas trees, snowmen, snow-ladies and snow covered trees.So, when I was designing my Christmas and winter custom fabrics I decided to add 4 new cut and sew Christmas doll ornament groups and 3 new cut and sew winter doll ornament groups.  For the

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Even after being online for 16 years you can still be surprised.  Well, at least I can.Nurses Medical Professionals Design Challenge NewOn August 25th I was notified by Spoonflower that twelve of my nurses designs had been removed from my Spoonflower account.  Nurses Fabric 2 Border NewI thought, "What!  They were all my original designs from close to a decade ago based on the nurse handmade

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 A lot of crafters LOVE Halloween due to all the wonderful decorations you can make.  Ghosts, witches, Frankenstein's and Monsters! Oh! My!  So, when I was designing my Halloween custom fabrics I decided to add 11 new cut and sew Halloween doll ornaments.  If you don't know what cut and sew dolls are they are a great sewing tool for kids and a quick and easy ornament to make for decorations. 

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Over the past few months I have been having a lot of fun with my Raggedy Dollies Stories designs and are so happy to tell you that I finally had a chance to add them to my Raggedy Dollies Stories  Designs Collection at my  Linda Walsh Originals Fabric Designs at Spoonflower.com. I love having them there as they have so many fabrics to choose from now.  At last count they had twenty-on different

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   You may have noticed that I seem to be creating a lot of toile custom fabric designs lately.  You'd be right.  I love toile designs.  Now I don't think the fact that they usually depict a Victorian scene would have anything to do with that - would you!  Toile designs, Victorian designs, graphic and collage illustrations - what's not to love!First I created my 12 Victorian Book Toile designs

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I just love my Victorian Books Toile Designs created from the graphics I got from an old Harper's Young People Illustrations Book from 1889 that someone had given me.As you might recall from a previous Linda's Blog post some of the mixed media projects I created this past summer were mixed media items that required quite a bit of old book papers for collage purposes.  So much so I ran out of the

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The "dollies" and I are a fun loving bunch and we LOVE to color, which is why I keep creating coloring books.  However, it's not always play time around here.  Sometimes we have work to do. I'm so happy to tell you that we just added 13 new custom fabric designs to my Crayons Designs Collection at my Linda Walsh Originals Fabric Designs at Spoonflower.com .They also love to design and loved the

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As mentioned previously, two of the first books I got from my grandmother back in 1966 when I was a young lady were Little Women and Little Men by Louisa May Alcott.  I loved the books and especially loved Jo because she was so fiercely independent.  I also admired Louisa May Alcott as she was an abolitionist, feminist and involved in the women's suffrage movement.  In so many ways she reminded

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Over the past few months I have been having a lot of fun with my Alice's Adventures In Wonderland designs and are so happy to tell you that I finally had a chance to add them to my Linda Walsh Originals Fabric Designs at Spoonflower.com.  I love having them there as they have so many fabrics to choose from now.  At last count they had twenty-on different fabrics ranging from Petal Signature

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Spoonflower launched a new product yesterday (5/5/2020) -  DIY Mask Kit for everyone who wants to make fabric masks during these pandemic times. I am glad that Spoonflower did this as their kit will allow more people to easily sew fabric masks based on their easy to use fabric template.  Plus, it will allow them to create masks with some of my unique and whimsical custom fabric designs

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I Just Love To Go Bookstore Shopping!  For me there is nothing more relaxing than going bookstore shopping at my local bookstores.  It was especially enjoyable when I would share this experience with my Mom.  She loved to bookstore shop, too.Not only was the time spent with my Mom thoroughly enjoyable, but we both loved books. We could spend hours upon hours just walking up and down the aisles

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When I was designing my cut and sew dolls I couldn't help but think about my own experiences as a child learning how to sew and thought that cut and sew dolls would not only be a good way to teach a young child how to hand sew but also how to teach them how to machine sew as they could be put together either way. Plus, they quickly see the results of their efforts. So, when I was designing my

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Lady Loren of Galapagos is in a really happy mood and is dancing up a storm. The reason is she loves the fact that her custom fabric designs are now available in my Linda Walsh Originals Fabric Designs Spoonflower shop and in my Linda Walsh Originals Designs Gallery.  Yippee! Think of all the possibilities for creating adorable home decor. I've got a few items in mind that I want to make

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I fell in love with the Blue Footed Booby of the Galapagos Islands in 2012 when I saw several pictures of the adorable bird.  He or she always inspired me to create something. I didn't know whether it was the teal blue feet or how determined the birds looked in every picture I saw of them. I thought, "Perhaps he or she will become a member of the "Victorian Animals Tea Society." They

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I don't know of any better way to start the day or for that matter start the new year than looking at something exquisitely beautiful. Do you? When hubby and I were walking near a reservoir last winter near our home we were greeted on our walk by an amazingly beautiful and majestic swan. She seemed to have found a winter home just near and under a bridge on a local reservoir. Most of the

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I just love designing custom fabric designs.  Over the past few years I decided to enter some of my fabric designs into the Spoonflower Design Challenges and have entered 30 into their contests so far.  I didn't win any but I definitely had fun designing them. I hope you like all of my designs.  The 1950' S Design Challenge  The 1960'S Design Challenge  The 1920'S Design

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I just love designing custom fabric designs.  Over the last few months I decided to enter some of my fabric designs into the Spoonflower Design Challenges and entered 10 into their contests.  I didn't win any but I definitely had fun designing them. I hope you like my designs. Sisterhood Challenge Food Frenzy Lake Coloring Challenge  Cycling Challenge Design  Animals

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Once in awhile I decide to enter some of my fabric designs into the Spoonflower Design Challenges and entered 7 into their contests recently.  I didn't win any but I definitely had fun designing them. I hope you like my designs. Gingerbread Design Year Of The Dog Victorian Animals Polar Bear Victorian Animals Contest Love Mom Tattoo Contest Elmer You're A Star

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New Beautiful Flowers Victorian Custom Fabric Designs Beautiful Flowers Fabric #1   Beautiful Flowers Fabric #2 Beautiful Flowers Fabric #3  Beautiful Flowers Fabric #4   Beautiful Flowers Fabric #5 Beautiful Flowers Fabric #6 © 2016 Copyright Linda Walsh Originals - Designs By Linda Walsh.

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When I was designing my cut and sew dolls I couldn't help but think about my own experiences as a child learning how to sew and thought that cut and sew dolls would not only be a good way to teach a young child how to hand sew but also how to teach them how to machine sew as they could be put together either way. Plus, they quickly see the results of their efforts. My mother and her best

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I LOVE designing custom fabric and love browsing Pinterest to see all the wonderful eye candy. So, of course, I decided to set-up a "My LOVE of Custom Fabric" Pinterest board. I added the Pinterest widget to the sidebar of my "Linda Walsh Originals Fabric Designs" blog so you can view my latest pins when ever you visit my blog. I'm sure I'll be adding more and more fabric to my board

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I really do need to get more focused and stop playing.  I just can't help myself when I'm having so much fun.  Of course, nothing else gets done when I'm having fun, but life isn't all about work - now is it? Have I got you wondering what I've been doing that's so much fun? Well, I've been designing new fabrics for my Linda Walsh Originals Spoonflower Custom Fabric Store. I've been

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If you're wondering what size fabrics you can order from in our "Linda Walsh Originals Fabric Designs" Spoonflower.com fabric store they are as follows: Basic Combed Cotton, Kona Cotton, Cotton Poplin, and Silk De Chine Test Swatch (8" x 8") Fat Quarter (21" x 18") 1 yard (42" x 36") Cotton Voile, Linen Cotton Test Swatch (8" x 8") Fat Quarter (27" x 18") 1 yard (54" x 36")

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If you're wondering what kind of fabrics you have to choose from in our "Linda Walsh Originals Fabric Designs" Spoonflower.com fabric store they are as follows: Basic Combed Cotton 100% combed cotton fabric, made from ring-spun yarn 42" wide printable area (107 cm) 3.2 oz per square yard Thread count: 78 x 76 Appropriate for quilting, appliqué, shirting, dresses, children's clothing,

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I've been playing again! This time it's with fabric designs. Actually, I've been playing with fabric designs and new websites/blogs. I've been thinking about designing fabric for some of my doll pattern lines using graphics of my dolls for quite sometime and last month was finally able to complete one of the lines. Of course, that required a new website and a new blog. You know me -

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