Do you dream of having your own fabric collection? Of seeing your designs on gorgeous greeting cards? Do you want to promote your surface pattern design portfolio to an educated and appreciative audience? Are you looking at 2025 with determination and ready to be proactive about your career?
Tara Lilly's winning collection with Windham Fabrics, from SPDG5
The guide will feature 100 portfolios, and entrants will also be considered for many professional licensing and learning opportunities—including a Fabric Collection with Windham Fabrics.
Tara Lilly's designs for Windham Fabrics
As a reader of The Pattern Journal newsletter, you can use the code "save10" for $10 off the entry fee. In thanks, upon your entry, you will receive another coupon for my shop—save 20% off subscriptions, renewals, books and back issues (the offer expires March 1, 2025).
→ The entry fee is USD $40* and will be used to cover the hosting and administration costs of this submission system. It will also be pooled as payments to artists selected for UPPERCASE projects such as the SPDG cover and patterned paper bonus for subscribers. *If the $30 entry fee ($40 less the save10 discount) is a barrier to entering the guide, email me for a free pass.
Please take your time to review everything on the Entry Page and Entry Form. The deadline is January 20th.
The Jan-Feb-March 2025 issue is on its way to subscribers and is available in my shop. Use the code butterfly for CAD$15 off subscriptions and renewals.
Coming in 2025: Feed Sacks (originally released in 2016) is undergoing a crowdfunding campaign for a reprint. This epic book has 850 vintage fabric swatches and 544 pages. A must-have for any design library! And Glue is Volume G in the UPPERCASE Encyclopedia of Inspiration. Auditions are open to collage and assemblage artists. Preorders support the production of the book. thank you!
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