There is no feeling quite like seeing your artwork out in the world, living its best life on someone else’s body. Not in a weird way…in a dress way.
Alyssa (@theprairiemisfit on Instagram) has been sewing up mini dresses using my “Louisiana Bullfrog Fête” fabric from Spoonflower, and she sent me a photo that frankly I have been staring at longer than is probably healthy. The placement, the silhouette, the way she paired it with a striped fabric for the edging and belt – she just completely got it. The bullfrogs are thriving. I am thriving. We are all thriving.
The Design, and How It Came to Be
I came back from a trip to New Orleans absolutely buzzing. That city gets into your bones whether you invite it to or not, and I wanted to bottle some of that wild, lush, only-in-Louisiana energy. Block print style, lotuses, wading birds, bullfrogs doing what bullfrogs do. The vertical stripes running through the background were meant to evoke a river, which I think reads beautifully in the finished dress, if I do say so myself.
I entered it into Spoonflower’s Leap Year Frogs challenge. Out of 1,461 entries my frogs came in 34th. Now ain’t that something to croak about?
Anyway. The whole point of fabric is that it gets made into things. Things people want to touch and wear and exist in. Alyssa’s dress is exactly that reminder — and she is selling them, so do yourself a favor and go follow her.
And if you want to get your own hands on the fabric and make something wonderful: https://www.spoonflower.com/collections/811731-louisiana-bullfrog-fete-by-rocarrstudio
The bullfrogs are waiting.
