Making Monochromes: Designing Blender Prints for Fabric and Paper

1. Intro: Hi, my name is Becca Ron. I am a full time artist, and I design surf designs and patterns here in my studio in Minneapolis. I love to teach people how to make designs with basic everyday materials. We're not talking a lot of high tech here. We're working with pen and paper and making awesome designs with just a few simple tools. So in this class, we are going to make monochromatic prints. That means one color. You only have to make one color choice. So we'll start out our designs by making some black and white sketches. Then I'm going to teach you how to add some colors using hex codes. We'll use a digital tool to create some repeating patterns, both directional and non directional prints, and then I'll show you how to export a tile so you can print your own monochromatic fabrics. We're going to focus in on blender prints. Those are prints with low volume that you can use anywhere. They will blend in with all kinds of other designs. So this is a great tool to add to your repertoire of surface designs. And even if you've never designed fabric before, this is something fun you can do to get your very first fabric designed. So if that sounds fun, join me for the next lesson. We'll talk about the basic materials you need to create these great monochromatic prints. 2. Materials & Tools : So you'll want to take a minute and gather a few materials to do your project. You write along with me. This project uses really simple materials. So you can see here in front of me, I have a sheet of just plain white drawing paper. This could be any kind of paper you've got printer paper for your computer. It could be drawing paper, it could be a scrap of something recycled. The only key is that it should be as plain white as possible. Then you need some kind of a black drawing tool. That could be your favorite pen, a marker, even a paint brush and some black paint. But I pulled out three of my favorite ones. Here are two different sizes of Sharpies, a very fine point sharpie pen or a fine point sharpie marker. And my very favorite isn't really a drawing tool at all, but this is this UIBL vision elite pen. It's a ballpoint pen, but I just like the tip on them and the way the ink kind of flows. So that's the one I use to do most of my designs like this. Okay? So take a second, grab your materials, and then join me in the next lesson, and we'll start sketching. 3. Sketches & Vocabulary: Before we dig into making sketches, let's talk a little vocabulary. Our goal in this class is to make some monochromatic blender prints. Let's break that down into what all of those words mean. Let's start with a blender print. Blenders are something that quilters use a lot, but you'll see them in the fabric store when you go all the time. Blender prints are basically they're small scale. They're usually only one or maybe two colors. They're what they call low volume, so they don't draw a lot of attention to themselves. And what they are used for is to accent other prints. So if you think about if you're setting out to design a quilt, you're probably going to pick out what they call a hero print, which is something really fun, novelty. I might have animals or flowers. If you put all hero prints in your quilt, it's going to look very busy. There's going to be a lot going on. And so the way you use blenders is to sort of highlight and accent the other elements in your quilt. So that's what we're going to create is some monochromatic blenders. Let's talk monochromatic. We're going to do a lesson about color a little later on in the class, but monochromatic means that usually your print is going to be basically one color, and then you're going to use some tints and shades or some darker and lighter versions of that same color. We're going to draw some little doodles that are going to work well to make a blender or a ditzy print, and we're only going to use black and white, which is going to help us be able to make a great monochrome a little bit later on in class. Okay, so grab your favorite drawing materials, and I'm not going to give you a whole drawing lesson here, but I'm going to show you four different examples that we're going to take through all the rest of the lessons. So if you want to follow along with me, you could try one of these or try one of your own ideas. But here are kind of four ideas that I think work really well for this technique. Okay? So the first one, we're going to do a simple kind of botanical, like a pattern of leaves very simply. And you don't have to have a lot of drawing skills for this. Remember, our goal is for it to be low volume. It's not going to draw a lot of attention to itself and be a very simple kind of shape. So I'm going to start by just drawing kind of a little vine, and I like to make kind of sketchy lines. So that's just kind of my style. I'm going to make a leaf that comes off this side, just kind of a lemon shaped leaf. And I'll make a leaf that comes off this side. Okay. That's all I need. That's as simple as we need to do for this kind of a design. Alright? So there's one idea. Another one, I made a print that I really love, where I drew little tiny tomatoes. So cherry tomatoes are a really easy one. So here's my little sketch of a cherry tomato. I'm going to draw a circle like this. And then I'm going to put the little leaf part on top of my cherry tomato, and that's basically just a kind of scribbly starburst. And there you go. Cherry tomato. As quick as that. And you can make them so that they're non directional. Like these ones have a top. Maybe this one I'll put the little leaves down on that side of it. Okay, so there's another idea. Try drawing some very simple cherry tomatoes. We could do flour. Now, this one's going to look kind of like it has a direction. Our goal with making blender prints is to try and make them non directional, so you could put it any way you want to and it doesn't have a right side up and a wrong side up. I'm going to show you how we can turn this directional design into a non directional one. So I love water lilies. So here's kind of my interpretation on a water lily. I'm going to do more of these kind of lemon shaped wedges. I think this one makes a really cute print. I'm going to give it a little bit of a stem, and then I'm going to draw some little parts coming out here. Okay. Mine got a little bit lopsided. Maybe I'll try it again. So what happens when you're drawing and talking at the same time, right? That one's a little bit more balanced. Last one, I'm going to do a dragonfly. Another really simple shape, little doodles. I'm going to give it some eyes and a body, like so and then wings. Maybe I'll give it a little dragonfly trail because that's sort of fun. Okay. So take a few minutes and just make some little sketches like this. The size that you draw doesn't really matter. We can adjust that as we're creating our design. So make whatever is comfortable to you and just fill a page like this with little simple doodles. Once you're done sketching, we'll move on to the next lesson, and I will show you how to scan or photograph them so we can start using them for some digital designs. 4. Scan or Photograph your Design: The very best way to get your designs into your computer in a way that we can edit digitally is to scan them. Now, if you don't have a scanner, hang on and later on in the lesson, I will tell you about how to take photos instead. But let's start with a scanner. So if you have a scanner, you can use any kind of basic scanner, and the software that comes with it will work great. So the example I'm going to show you here, I work on a Mac and the Mac has a software called image capture that's built in, so I just use that when I'm scanning. So I'm going to put my design on the scanner, and there are not very many settings you need to worry about. I usually set my scanner to black and white instead of color. So for these designs, we're just going to be scanning black and white. You want to select just the image? Because I drew a whole bunch of images on one page, I'm going to scan them each individually so that I can work with each one as a separate design instead of the whole page all at once. So my software will let me select each area that I want to scan. Um, the resolution doesn't really matter. We're going to be using these at a very small size, so we don't need to capture very many pixels when we scan them. As a default, I usually just set my scanner to scan 300 DPI, and that gives me a lot of flexibility of how I can use it no matter what I want to do with these designs later. Okay? So scan them, save them to your computer somewhere where you can find them. Now, if you don't have a scanner or don't have access to one, you can also take a photo. I use just my regular phone camera to take photos a lot of the time. And that's going to work great. But the thing you have to think about when you're taking a photo is to pay attention to the light. So I'm going to put an example photo up on the screen where I just took a picture of my design while it was sitting on my desk. And one thing you'll notice about that picture is there's a big dark shadow right in the middle of it, which was my hand and the light from above me casting a shadow. You don't want shadows. Those are totally going to show up in your finished design. So I took another picture, and I'll put that one up on the screen. All I did differently was I took my piece of paper and I stepped outside on my front step and took the picture there. It's a really kind of bright overcast day today, and so there aren't any harsh shadows, and that is a great way to take a photo. So it might take a little experimenting at your house to find a good place where you're not going to get a shadow across your page. So that's just the thing you need to pay attention to is look for dark parts, especially in the white part of your design, and try to get it as clean and non shadowy as you can. Okay. Same thing. We want to divide it up into pictures of each of the individual motifs instead of one big picture of your whole entire page. So once you've got your light figured out, you can go ahead and take pictures of each of the individual ones. Okay. Once you save those to your computer or your tablet, if you want to work that way, then we'll go on to the next lesson and start to edit our design. 5. Making a Repeat in Repper: Alright. Once we have our design in a digital format, we've scanned or taken a photo of it. Now we're going to jump into using a basically a pattern making tool. This one is called Reper that's Repr, reper dot app, and it works right in your web browser. So you can use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, whatever your favorite one is, or a browser on your tablet, and this will work. There is a free version. They do a free demo, so you can try this out for this class without having to sign up for anything. If you want to export designs, you will have to sign up with your email address. Okay. So you go to reper dot app, and the page will look something like this when you get there. So the first thing that you do is come up here to the top right hand corner, and you are going to click on this button that's purple that says start App. Now, when you first jump into Repper, yours might not look exactly like my screen does. Because I have an account and I'm signed in already, it brings up this collections page. You can just dismiss this if it pops up by just clicking the X over here on the left hand side. Probably yours is going to jump right to this screen, especially if you've never used Repper before. Okay. So I'm not going to take you on a really in depth tour of how Rapper works. If you want to dig more into that and see more examples, I have another class called Surface Design for fabric and paper, and I'll put a link to that in the resources section of this class. You can jump over there and learn a whole bunch more about all the different features in Rapper. We're going to focus in on making monochrome, so we're going to be specific about the things I show you for this class. The first thing is, we need to get our design into Repper. So we're looking right now at just another design that I was working on. So let's load in one of our sketches. So I do that by coming to this left hand column over here, and there's a button that says change Image, kind of right in the middle there. So I'm going to click on change Image, and then there is an upload button right here at the top in purple. Okay? So I'm going to click Upload. And here is where I saved my designs. I'm going to pick that little leaf shape that we started out with and click Open, and now it's going to pull it into Wrapper. So you can see I have a preview of my design over there on the left hand side, right under change Image. So to make our blender print, we're going to use, I think, three different patterns, I'm going to show you that are great ways to make a blender, kind of simple design. So the first one is a pattern called rectangular grid. Um, and that's the most basic kind of repeating pattern there is. So we're going to switch our preview so that we're seeing rectangular grid. Mine is there right now, but if yours doesn't come up as that, here's how you find it. So under this little the section at the top here of this pattern tab, it says tiling. And right next to that, there is a drop down menu. And if you click on that little drop down, it's going to pop up all different kinds of designs. So we're going to focus in on starting with rectangular grid. So we find that under the seamed tab at the top here, and then rectangular grid is the very first one. Okay. So I've got it switched over to rectangular grid. Now, over here on my preview, you can see that there's this box with kind of a broken frame around it. And what that frame is it's showing us the part of the design that it's going to repeat. So right now it's only repeating, like a half of one of my leaves. So I want to change that so that it's going to repeat the whole little, like, vine pattern that I have. So to do that, I click on any of these little broken edge handles, and I click and drag, and that's going to change the size of it. So I'm going to select like the whole leaf pattern about like that. That looks pretty good, right there. So what we're looking at on the right hand side of the screen is it's taking the part that I selected and it's repeating it over and over. So you can see we already have a fabric pattern going here. This rectangular grid one works great for this little vine pattern. You can see it makes a cute design of little vines that go on and on and on. I can tweak this a little bit dragging around kind of to adjust the spacing. I can make it a little bit wider or make them a little narrower. I have to make sure I don't cut off the edges of the leaves, right. Okay? So you can play with that and get your design kind of however you want it. One other thing to notice up here right at the top, almost in the center, there is a little toggle that has a plus on one side and a minus on the other side. This is so we can zoom in and out. So if I click the minus, I can zoom out on my design a little bit. And that's starting to look a little more like a blender print, right? A little bit of a low volume kind of simple design. Okay? So now, we've got a design. We've got a repeating pattern. Let's look at a couple of our other designs before we move on and talk about color, okay? So here's a great one. Rectangular grid works with our vine pattern. But this breaks a rule for blender prints, which is it has a direction to it. This really is a stripe pattern. So let's see if we can create the next one that has less of a direction so that it works in multiple different ways. So let's pull up a different image. So I'm going to go back to change Image and upload now let's try this little dragonfly that we created. So I'm going to open the dragonfly, and we can do the same thing. I'm going to zoom back in again so you can see a little better. We're still in the rectangular grid pattern, so I could make this one just a repeating rectangular grid, and that's kind of a cute design. But let's see if we can make this have not so much of a direction. So we're going to go back up here to the tiling section, and we're going to choose a different tiling pattern and see if we can break up this kind of directional stripiness of this print. So I'm going to click on Rectangular Grid again. And this time, also in the seamed menu, I'm going to click on this one that's called weave. And what weave does is you can kind of see in the preview on the right side, is now it's taking our design and it's rotating it around in four directions. Now, I can see that it's cut off a little bit of my dragonfly wings. And I want to adjust that. You can see I can't drag that bigger to get quite all of it in the design. So I have noticed that there is a little check box down here underneath that is checked fixed aspect ratio. It's trying to force that into being a square. I want to change that. I'm just going to unclick that box, and now I can adjust so I can get all of my dragonfly wings in and I might make this just a little bit narrower and get my dragonfly wings up here. So if your box is not adjusting the way that you think it should, check for that fixed aspect ratio, check box down there. Alright, I'm going to zoom in on this again by clicking on the plus so you can see it a little closer. Now I've taken my dragonfly and I've got four dragonflies now going in four different directions. So this has kind of broken up that stripiness of the pattern. I kind of love this design, actually. I think this is really cute. Little zooming dragonflies. Okay? So there are two different designs. I want to show you, I think, one more variation. So here's the dragonfly. Um, one more thing which I haven't showed you. If you love this pattern and you're like, Okay, I got this. I've got this all how I want it. If you want to save a copy of it to come back to and work on later, over on this far left hand side, in the little black bar, there's a plus sign that says save Snapshot if I click on that, it's going to put a little thumbnail of my design over here on the left side. Now I can come back and click on that thumbnail anytime and come back to this dragonfly design. I've saved the dragonfly design. I love that one. Let's switch over to our little water lily doodle that we did. So I'm going to change image again. I'm going to click on Upload. I'm going to find that water lily. There it is. And load that in. And here is the water lily with the same weave pattern. Creating kind of a non directional design. I think this one also works great as a weave pattern. So now we've created a more kind of random print that goes every direction. Of course, you can continue to play with this. Like, I'm only showing you kind of the tiniest little surface of what you can do with this tool and how you can design your original sketches to make them do different things. So know that these are simple designs, but you can do a lot more complex things if you're willing to kind of play and experiment. Okay? So maybe I'll save a snapshot of this water lily design as well. And then one more, I'm going to go back to that original vine that we did. Now, here's this one in the vine pattern as well, which is kind of neat. It looks like a trellis, almost. But I'm going to go back to rectangular grid and just save a snapshot of that because we didn't do that before. Okay? So now, I've got three designs kind of saved over here and the snapshots on the left side. So let's take a minute and talk about color. So we're going to jump to another lesson, talk about the color, making a monochrome, and then we're going to come back and adjust the colors in our design here in Reper. 6. Choosing Colors: So let's talk about color for a minute. So the image you see behind me on the screen is a picture of a color map. Now, this one is made by Spoonflower, who is who I use when I print fabrics. But you can find color maps made by all kinds of different places. The key part of a color map is it's got little chips of colors that you can look at and pick out the one that you love, and they are marked. In this case, they're marked with a code called a hex code. So if you look below each of those little color chips, you will see there's a six digit number, and that indicates what the color is that we're talking about. So that's the first thing about making monochromes is when you're designing a fabric or a surface pattern like this, you have a color in mind that you want to create these. Now, maybe you're trying to match something or you're just picking colors that you love. But you need to be able to identify what that color is that we're going to make our monochrome in. So here's how you use one of these color maps. So I actually have two of these color maps I have in my studio that I use all the time. I have one printed out a wallpaper that's on the wall over beside the door of my studio, and I have another one, which is right here in front of me printed out on fabric. And here is what it looks like. Printed on fabric. And so I have an example of exactly what the colors going to look like when it's printed that I can compare to. So if I'm trying to match a color on something, I can hold it right up to this color map and choose a color. I can just pick one that I like off of the chart. You can also look for colors that have a code that go along with them. So let's talk a little first about what is that hex code. So a hex code is a six digit. It's a combination of letters and numbers. And it's very similar to an RGB or a CMYK. It's just another way of telling you what those colors are. So I've switched over, and my background is now just a picture of Photoshop. Now, you don't need Photoshop to be able to do this, but this was an easy way for me to be able to show you a color picker. So, for example, I'm going to just pick a color from this design. This was something I was working on the other day, and I'm going to use the eyedropper tool. Now, if you use a different graphics program, most of them have an eyedropper tool that works exactly the same way. Okay? So I'm going to choose eyedropper, and I'm just going to pick one of the colors here on the page. So I'm going to pick this pink that's in the background. It will have switched my little color chip down here and Photoshop to that. I'm going to double click on the color chip. And that's going to bring up this color picker. Now, again, any graphics program you use will have a color picker like this. It doesn't have to be Photoshop. But the thing I wanted to show you for you to notice is, you will see that the same color here is represented in five different ways in this color chip. There's an HSB. That's one way of describing a color. You can see the RGB. You might have heard of that one. There's an LAB, there's a CMYK, and at the very bottom, there is just a little pound sign, a little number sign, and a six digit code. For this color, it's DF 7991. That's going to be the hex code for that pink. Okay. You can also look up hex codes. So for instance, if you're interested in designing blender fabrics for quilting, there are two really relevant colors for the year 2025 because that's where we are right now, which is these two. One is the Pantone color of the year that they call mocha moose and the other is that Kona, who is a quilting fabric company, always declares their color of the year, which is called Nocturn. It's a deep purple. I just Googled and found the hex codes for both of those colors. So you can also look up hex codes that way for colors that are already out there in different places. Okay? Once you have your hex code, I want you to write it down on a posted note or a little scrap of paper because we're going to dive back into Reper and choose some of those hex codes to set our colors. Okay? So I've got my hex codes written down. And in the next lesson, we're going to jump back into Reper and I want to show you how to add these colors into your design. A 7. Adding Color to Your Design: Okay, here we are back in Wepper. So let's talk about how we take our black and white design that we created and make a monochrome from it. So we're going to do that by going under the Effects tab, which is right next to pattern up here in the left hand column. And the effect that we want to use is this one called Duotone, which is the third option down on the screen. And to turn it on, I'm just going to click this little button, little slider, and that's going to slide it over. So it's just picking some default colors right now, so it's kind of picked a purple and a mint green. We're going to switch that to the colors that we chose. So I wrote down some of the hex codes from the colors that I picked. So let's try switching to one of those. So the way to make a monochrome is we have two color chips here. There's the purple one and the green one. We're going to set both of those to the same color code. To do that, I'm just going to click in the middle of the little color chip, and it pops up a color picker, which will look very similar to the one in Photoshop. But down here on the bottom is that hex code. Let's type in the new hex code, and I'm going to use one of the ones I wrote down, which is this color called Nocturn, which is a deep purple. It's similar to the one we have here. That's five C two, e5c. Is going to set this kind of plummy purple, okay? And then once I have typed that in, I just click somewhere outside that box, and it's going to set that color. And then I'm going to do the same thing in the green one. I'm going to click on the green. I'm going to type that hex code in again. Five, C two, E, five, C. Now my whole screen is this kind of plummy purple color. Now, here is where we get to make kind of a fun monochrome. So we've set both colors to the same. So this second color chip, now we want to set to a tint or a shade of this same color. And what that means is a tint is a lighter version, we add white to it. A shade is a darker version, we add black to it. And to do that, all we have to do is click and move this little bubble around in the block here. We've already set the basic, the hue, the color. I'm going to choose a lighter one. I'm going to do a tint. I'm going to click somewhere up here towards the top, and that's going to give me a lighter shade of the same purple. Maybe that one's too light. I'm thinking monochrome, I want it to be low contrast, maybe. The colors a little more similar. So there is a great version of kind of two shades of this plummy purple. Once I have the color that I like by clicking around, I just click outside of this and that will make that little pop up disappear. Before I do that, I want to point out one thing. You will notice that the hex code down here has changed, and that's because we clicked on a different part of this design. Now, we set what color that this whole panel was based off of when we originally set that number. So if you want to, you can go back to that again by just typing your number in here again. But just know that as you click around here, that hex code will change based on the different color you click on. Alright, so I'm just going to click anywhere outside of that, and that will kind of set the color. One other little tool I want to show you here is underneath those color chips, there's also a little box that says invert. And what that will do is it will switch the place of your two shades of purple. And so if I click the invert box, now you can see it's made the opposite sort of design to what we had. So now the background is dark and the leaves are lighter, which I think is kind of fun. I maybe like that one better for this design. Alright, that's all you have to do to create a monochrome. So we've set one base color, and we've chosen a tint or a shade of that color. So let's try it with one other color. I'm going to swap this one. Let's go to let's say our dragonflies. We'll go to our dragonflies design, and I switch to that design by just clicking on it over here in the thumbnails on the left hand side. And let's add a duo tone color to that one. So I'm going to click the Duotone. It's again, just going to pick a random set of colors that it's going to start with. And let's set this one to the other color code that I wrote down here, which is that mocha color, mocha moose. So that's a 47, 864. Okay, I've set one to that color. I'm going to set the other one to that color. I'm just highlighting so I can type over it a 47, 864. Okay. Now I can choose a lighter or a darker shade, a tint or a shade of this. So let's go darker this time. So maybe we're going to make a really chocolatey brown version. Okay. Once I have clicked that, I can also try inverting it. And see what it looks like the opposite way. I like that one better, but you can switch those back and forth. Okay. Now, if you set a set of colors that you love, you can also create a snapshot of that by clicking on the save Snapshot button over here, and now we have the Browns mocha color version of that one saved. Okay, so take some time to experiment, save a bunch of snapshots, and then in the next lesson, I'm going to show you how to export. So you have a file that's ready to upload to anywhere you want to use to print your design, whether that's fabric or wrapping paper or whatever you want to do with it. 8. Exporting Your Design: Okay, let's export your design. So I created a couple other versions. I made this tomato one, and I added some color to my green vines over here, and I have them saved as snapshots. So to export your design, you're going to have the design that you want to export up here on the screen. So I've clicked on my snapshot, so I've got that one ready to go. And now I'm going to click on the Export tab that's up here on the left hand side. Now, there's only a couple of settings you have to worry about here to export with the intention to design fabric. Now, you can export this in many different ways to do many different things with it. I'm specifically showing you how to export a repeating tile that you can upload to a place like Spoonflower to print your fabric. Okay? So that's our goal here. So we're going to choose first from the mode section up at the top here. Instead of surface, we're going to choose the version that says tile. And you'll see the preview change on the right hand side. What this is doing is cropping it down basically into one repeating tile. So when you upload to a place like Zazzle or Spoonflower or somewhere to print a repeating pattern, you only need to upload one repeat. So that's what it's creating here when we select tile. Now, I recommend you always just choose maximum underneath the size here. That way, you always have the best quality version possible. And you can always scale this down, which is really easy to do in your program that you're going to print your designs in. Okay? So you choose tile. You choose maximum. You don't have to pick anything else from the drop down, except there are two versions of the file you can export, either a PNG or a JPEG. Um, both work great. For the most part, a JPEG is more universal, more easy to upload to different places. So usually I choose JPEG because it's accepted on more different kinds of sites and things. Okay? So I've chosen JPEG, and then down here on the bottom, I can export my design. Now, I will point out there is a button next to that that says export snapshots. What that will do is export everything that's over here in your left hand column. Using the same settings that you have set for this tile. So you could do an export of all six of these designs at once if you wanted to. Alright, I'm going to hit Export here for this one, and it's going to think about it for a second. And now it's going to give me a pop up window to save this somewhere. So I'm going to call it tomatoes, and I'll just save it on my desktop so we can find it later. Okay. So that's how I've saved my tile. You can go through and save tiles for all the different designs that you created. If you're interested in seeing an example of a different way you could export for a different purpose, be sure and check out that class surface design for fabric and paper. Again, that's linked down in the resources. Once we have this exported and saved to our computer, then it's ready to upload. Now, I'm going to do one bonus lesson showing you just how it works to upload something to spoonflower as an example. It will work similar to that on a lot of different sites, depending on what you want to use to print your repeating design. 9. Bonus Lesson: Uploading to Spoonflower: As a bonus lesson, I'm going to show you how to upload that tile you just created to spoon flower so you could print fabric or wallpaper this way. Again, there are lots of different places that you can print different designs with the same repeating tile. The process is going to be very similar. So this is the homepage at Spoonflower. You just go to spoonflower.com, and to upload a design of your own, if you look under the tab here that says artist corner, the very first option is upload a design. If you are logged into your account, if you have an account with Spoonflower already, you can also find an upload button under the Little person icon here, and you can see there's an upload a design button there as well. So I'm going to click on Upload. It's going to bring up this page, and the very first thing it asks you is to choose your file. And so I'm going to find that tomatoes design on my desktop, which we just saved. So there it is. And this little section here basically is just you agreeing that you have the copyright. You have permission to upload this design. Well, we just created it. So yes, we do. I can hit agree and continue. And then it'll take it just a few seconds to upload. And once it does that, it's going to bring up this little preview screen. Now, it is generating thumbnails, and that's why nothing has appeared right now. This sometimes takes a few seconds for it to generate all of the previews. So you didn't do it wrong. Just hang out for a second. And in a few seconds here, it will show us our design. Okay, so here are most of the thumbnails loaded. It's still working on a few of them. But the part I want to show you is this little tile here that is labeled fabric. If you want to change a couple of simple things about your design, you want to go into the Edit button here underneath fabric. And I'm going to click on that, and this is going to show us the fabric preview page. We're looking at on the left hand side here a preview of a yard of 42 inch wide fabric, and the repeat style, this was a basic repeat that we did. It's called a rectangular grid and rapper. They call it a basic repeat over here at Spoonflower. But basically, what it did is it took that tile that I uploaded and it's repeated it now to fill this entire yard of fabric. Now, you can't adjust much about your design once you get here to Spoonflower or to Zazzle or wherever else you're going to upload it to. But one thing you can change is the scale. And over here on the right hand side, you can see there is a little slider or you can type in numbers for how much you want to adjust it. So if we were really going to make this be a blender print, kind of a ditzi print, that means we want these tomatoes to be pretty small. So I can just adjust the slider down to make this a very small scale kind of tomato design. Um, and so I can adjust that however I want to. You can check the preview kind of different sizes. So instead of previewing a yard of fabric, which I can see down here at the bottom. That's what I'm looking at, I could also preview a swatch, which I think is a better way to preview it. This is showing you an eight by eight inch square. Um, which you can imagine in your mind a little easier, I think, what an eight by eight inch square looks like. So there is kind of what the preview looks like there. I can see that each one of these little tomatoes is maybe about a half an inch. So I even could adjust this down a little bit smaller if I wanted to. But let's say I love this design. So then I'm going to hit the Save button down here at the bottom. That's going to save that adjustment that I made to this design. And then I can click on the By button here to buy a version of my fabric. So let's switch over now. I'm going to swap to my overhead camera instead of this version. And let's look at what this looks like when it's printed. 10. Your Project & Wrap Up: Okay, so here are my finished monochroms. So here is the original black and white sketch that I did for each of these. I uploaded them to per. We added both a repeating pattern and a color to these. And then I exported the tile, and I uploaded these to spoonflower to print them. Now, your project for this class, you don't have to go as far as printing your fabric, but I would love to have you make a sketch. Upload to Reper create your duo tone color scheme, and you can export the tile, which then you can share in the project section for this class. So we would love to see you repeating tile, and I'm especially curious to see what color you chose to make your monochrome. So I hope you've had fun in this class and that you've got some ideas to make some really fun, quirky prints. I'll tell you a little secret. I love making this tomato design because I'm actually allergic to tomatoes. And so I do a lot of tomatoes and other things in my artwork because it's kind of funny to me that I love them, but I can't eat them. Uh, so I hope you had a good time creating some kind of quirky print that's really all about you. It's something that you can't find in a fabric store. And I think that's the most fun part about creating your own fabric designs is that you get to really have something personal in both the designs and the colors that you love. Thanks for joining me. Be sure to upload your project and share and we'll see you for another class.