Custom Batik

For the first time in my life, I was a fabric designer!  In honor of our 12th shop hop, we decided to have a custom batik produced.  Majestic Batik in Corvallis, Oregon had a reasonable set up fee and minimum order, so away we went!

We are the "Romancing Eastern North Carolina Shop Hop", so I used hearts and dogwood (state flower) images in my design.  Here is the drawing that I sent to them:

Off it went to somewhere in Indonesia, where the tjap (pronounced CHOP) was created.

For color, I was inspired by hybrid roses that I had seen in the Wilson, NC Rose Garden.  They looked something like this.

So, we sent off color swatches for ideas.

They sent back a ton of samples, some from our colors and some completely different.  We chose the orange/pink version as our official shop hop batik.

Here is the quilt I designed for my shop using the batik:

And here's my new pattern:

The process took months and months, but it was worth it!  We also ordered two of the other colorways presented to us and were very happy with them.