Pattern Pattern
Assembly
WHERE TO BUY
Quickfire
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STEP 1
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Layout diagram is not to scale.
with Illustrator
Note sizes on diagrams are cut
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size, not finished size.
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David Walker
Complete the centre panel with
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rocket appliqué first.
The Free Spirit Behind the Robot Collection
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Use the manufacturer’s instructions
for the Lite Steam-A-Seam2 – trace
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Would it be fair to say you are on
think that someone designed a quilt or the interior decorator in our home, I get
decorated their nursery using my work. a creative kick out of the carpentry and
the individual shapes of
the peripheral of quilting? you,
landscape side of things. That works
the rocket design onto the
yourself are not a quilter?
Where does your inspiration
out pretty well because there seems to
fusible web. Cut out each
It would, at least for now. I am primarily
come from? be a steady stream of bookcases that
an illustrator of greeting cards and
of the shapes allowing
need to be built or bushes that need to
children’s books (among other things).
Almost any artist will tell you that they
be planted at our house. Now I think
at least ¼” around each Fortunately for me, Free Spirit has a
find inspiration EVERYWHERE. I think
about it, maybe this helps balance out
one. Iron the shapes to
full stable of VERY talented artists, but
it’s just a matter of taking notice of the
the “immaturity” issue that you asked
patterns, colours, and images around
the reverse side of the
realized they were missing designs
about earlier!
for children. They asked if I would be
us. Specifically, I have always found that
corresponding fabrics. Cut
interested in filling that void in their line
product packaging is a great source
out all the pieces directly on
and well, now I’m a fabric designer I
of inspiration since it has to be eye
catching, unique, and memorable. My
What book are you reading right
the traced lines.
guess!
secret source of design inspiration comes now?
from the halls of my daughter’s grade
Place the cut out shapes of
how do your designs end up on
school. The art the kids create often has
Remember, I’m a children’s book
the Rocket and stars onto
fabric?
a naive composition and “colourfeel”
illustrator, do you know how
the pale blue background
My working relationship with Free
that I really like.
embarrassing it would be to answer
Spirit is very unique in that I send
this?
fabric, making sure to
them sketches and we discuss which Do you have a favorite quote?
overlap the rocket shapes collections they would like me to pursue
What is your guilty pleasure?
“All my life I wanted to be somebody.
slightly. When you are
to a finished fabric collection. Because
the majority of my work is character
I see now I should have been more
In the U.S., there’s a really disgusting
happy with the placement,
driven, as opposed to purely decorative,
specific.” --Lily Tomlin (makes me laugh
t.v. show called “Dirty Jobs” where the
secure by ironing the pieces
the most important part of the process
every time I hear it)
host travels the country doing some
really unbearably bad jobs. My kids
in place. Machine appliqué
is choosing a theme (such as Robots for
Do you see your creative gene in
love it, and it’s good for a little “Dad-
around the shapes using a
example). Once the theme is approved,
I paint the final art with acrylic paints
your children?
bonding time” every once in a while. I
think if I had a publicist they might tell me
blanket or buttonhole stitch
on paper. At this point, my painted My older daughter, 14, has too many I gave you a little too much information
in a corresponding coloured
art is prepared for the printing process interests to mention, but art doesn’t here.
thread.
by someone deep inside the halls of seem to be one of them. My younger
Free Spirit--- I’m assuming there is some daughter, 11, has more than inherited how do you measure your
If you have allowed extra
magic involved at this stage, because my creative gene, and my guess is you’ll
success in your business?
fabric now is the time to trim
I can’t imagine how they could do it be doing an interview with HER a few
otherwise! years from now.
I measure my success by the fact that
back to the correct size –
I’m able to earn a living while painting
30½” x 39½”.
Do you own or see many of the Are you a big kid yourself?
everyday in my studio. That is a rarity in
finished projects that use your
the art world, and I try never to take it
My wife will tell you that I can be almost
for granted.
STEP 2: BORDERS
fabrics?
shockingly immature, but if by defining
me as a “big kid” makes that flaw sound
Orange
This has been one of the best parts of David lives with his wife and two
designing fabric. I get emails or blog
more charming, then let’s go with that.
daughters on America’s East Coast.
Add the side strips first, 2” x
links of some really fun projects people
39½”, then attach the top and
have created using my designs. With
Does your creativity flow in other Visit David and his illustrious
bottom strips, 2”x 33½”.
all the great fabrics available out there,
areas of your home? collections online at
you can’t imagine how flattering it is to
I like to think it does. While my wife is
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