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Now is the time to celebrate the Autumn harvest and to spice up the season with gingerbread smiles and peppermint stick delights!  Three new designer fabrics by Annie Lang have just been made available that will bring a warm and welcoming feel to your creative holiday projects. All the new prints were created with my hand rendered digital clipart so I've also included links to the art with samples to give you ideas as to how you can use these coordinating designs to make themed companion crafts and products for your DIY projects.   Welcome the Autumn Harvest with this wonderfully seasonal design with  sunflowers, pumpkins, plaid bows, corn and more in rustic Fall colors.  It's absolutely perfect for making potholders, napkins, basket liners, aprons, candle and jar wraps and so much more! It just wouldn't be the holiday season without sweet fabric gingerbread characters and peppermint sticks all jumbled together with whimsical smiles and holly!    If all our kitchens were

It's that time of year again when the best of our country farm markets are ready to put on a show!  County Fairs are such fun as we get to sample local homemade delights, marvel at handcrafted workmanship, cheer the blue ribbon 4-H participants on, check out the livestock and poultry booths, watch the rodeo competitions and barn dance the night away with friends and neighbors.  If you've never been to the County Fair, now is the perfect time to mark your calendar, pull on those denims, grab your hat and head on over in support of your local community.   You don't need to live on a farm or ranch to enjoy the fun of a county fair.  Keep scrolling and y ou'll find links to all of Annie Lang's homemade  County Fair themed line art patterns, decorative papers and clipart images to help inspire your creative homemade adventures.  Enjoy the festivities! Watch this short video to see what's in the pattern book!  Download the printable " Farm Folk and Cowboys "

Fabric Designing I've been a "fabriholic" for as long as I can remember even though I was not very skilled when it came to sewing machines or threading needles!   However, in 1998 I was offered a licensing contract to design fabric prints based on the line art pattern characters I had published through Easl Publications and a whole new world of design possibilities opened up.   My fabric prints were being nationally sold through quilting, crafts and fabric stores like Jo-Ann Stores, Hancock Fabrics, Hobby Lobby, etc. until the recession hit and markets took a step backwards.  I then sold my printable designs for scrapbooking paper prints online and it was then that I discovered it was the design process that I've missed the most! Unlike the past when commercial prints required screen printing and final approval which sometimes took months, today's digital printing process takes only days before printed fabrics are shipped to the doorstep.  My Spoonflower sample s