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All Fabric, All the Time

True Up has been featured in a few places recently. In case you missed it:

Sew Mama Sew named True Up a “Site We Love” (I love you back!) and did an interview with me. I knew Sew Mama Sew was big, but I didn’t know HOW big — all my site traffic records were blown out of the water the day the interview was posted! Have you been bookmarking their Handmade Holidays posts like crazy, like I have?

The Craft Mentality Podcast mentioned True Up and the Sunday Sale Alerts in their episode #9. Warning, boobies!

Daily Swatch: Circus WeekYesterday

Circus Train, from Primrose Design on Flickr. I love the rough hand-drawn lines.

Interview With Aurora Fox, Student at the California School of Professional Fabric DesignYesterday

If your fabric love has led you to the desire to design fabric for a living, you’re not alone. There are a few options to set yourself on that career path, and I hope to cover them all here on True Up. One option is the California School of Professional Fabric Design, a trade school located in Berkeley, California. Aurora Fox is a student there. She’s finishing up the program and currently in the middle of moving from the Bay Area to Oregon (she’ll commute south once a month or so to take care of business at the school). The program sounds absolutely dreamy — Aurora was kind enough to answer my questions and share some of her work.

All images in this post copyright Aurora Fox 2008, and used with permission.

True Up: Why did you decide to become a student at the school, and what was the admissions process like?

Aurora Fox: I have always wanted to design surface patterns for fabrics, but never knew where to go to learn the process. Then, I discovered through a friend — this school right where I live, The California School of Pro

Holiday Fabrics Roundup, Part 1November 18

Alexander Henry, Snowyville and Checking It Twice c

Daily Swatch: Circus WeekNovember 18

Ugh! So torn! A great black-background print … and four yards of it, for $24! But … clowns. They are clowns at their best and least scary, with horseshoe-shaped legs, even. But I don’t know if I can do clowns at all. If nobody else gets it (from Etsy seller eyeformodern), maybe I will.