more my speed...

Okay, so, after getting hated on by all the teenage girls at Threadless, I discovered that the parent company has another site called Naked + Angry. It works the same way as Threadless (submit/rated by members), but instead of T-shirts, it's for fabric designs — like repeating patterns and such. (If you win they make ties or something with your pattern.) The nerdiness of making a repeating pattern plus the art/decorative part equals something I really dig.

Plus it seems to be a smaller, more adult, community of contributors/members, so things are more polite/constructive, and the submissions are approved and up for voting in 24 hours (versus 4 to 7 days for Threadless). I submitted FIVE patterns over the past few days, and they're all up right now: square spiral (look familiar?); swirl botanical; comb; tribe angles; and rangey.

Who knows, maybe I'll win something! ...eh, probably not, but I'm having a lot more fun over there.