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Coastal Inspired Fabric

By Kerrysteele @kerrysteeleart
Last week, I asked for opinions on my new Spoonflower fabric designs and one in particular stood out. Kristy, of Design Chic mentioned her beach house and having a desire for something in a very pale blue to match a paint color. I asked for the paint color and said I would try to match it. Once I figured out that color and a few others to work with it, I had a "Aha" moment. I had been wanting to do more neutral, calm colors but not just in one pattern. I just really did not have a clear vision of what that would be like so I never did anything about it until the I had the notion that a coastal living inspired set of fabrics woudl be perfect.

Coastal inspired fabric

Sacred tree in four colorways

The collection is called "Carolina coast". I have six colorways but only four are in this fabric.

Coastal inspired fabric

Breakers in the three main color ways

Above is a stripe called "Breakers" in three colorways; Seaspray, Offshore, and Dune. There are two different pale blue-green colors that I used along with two pale beiges and an off-white throughout the collection. There are also a teal and turquoise in the brighter combinations and of course black and white.

Coastal inspired fabric

Carolina star

This all came together much more quickly than I thought it would. Either I am getting better at this or I got very lucky. The frustration factor was almost nil. I ordered sample swatches so that the fabric could be offered for sale in a few weeks and discovered on Saturday afternoon that I had forgotten one pattern altogether.

Coastal inspired fabric

surf stripe


Coastal inspired fabric

The forgotten "surf stripe"

This might have been my favorite of the bunch and I still can't imagine how I forgot to add this. It does allow time for me to enlarge the pattern though, I thought it was a bit small. My bedroom is in this palette and I really want one of these fabrics incorporated in my house now.
I would like to add some grays and maybe a faded Nantucket red.
Thoughts?

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