Family Trip Fabric

The trip of a lifetime, going with my siblings to see our father’s homeland in Norway, required a special textile design.

A simple jersey to create texture

Our unusual family name

Pine tree clip art

The camouflage background was made from a previous floral design I had created. But, the texture on our name didn’t quite work.

And the camo was to busy, so a nice blue overlay took it down a notch.

Our brother-in-law’s family is from Sweden, so we changed the trees to be yellow in a nod that direction and added in his name.

But, of course, the year was wrong and changing our name to blue was the last step.

The final print.

I ordered the fabric in both twill and polyester from Spoonflower and made myself a large scarf and my family members bandanas, as well as sewed us up each a little ditty bag.