Steampunk victorian fabric find

I deliberately avoid Spoonflower because I'm a seamstress with a weakness for cute cottons and they have them by the boltfull.  It's just safer for us all if I don't know what I'm missing.  However I did get lured over today and look what they have --

Steampaper

Steampunked victorian wall paper!  Love!  And it reminds me, in a round-about way, of the wallpaper in Disney's Haunted Mansion (any of them) which at first looks all innocently like normal victorian fare and then, on closer inspection, has creeptastic faces.  Only instead of faces, here you get cogs and dials.  A good trade out for one's living room, I would guess.

For those of a more nautical bent, here's an octopus design for you -

 

Steamed Cameo

And this --

Clockwork Octopus

Am I the only one who looks at that and sees hearts?  Yes?  Just me?  Ok then.

And that's just the first designs that caught my eye.  They have a whole category of steampunk, along with some fabulous vintage fabrics that I'm working hard to resist.  See, this is why I avoid Spoonflower - too much good stuff!

Octopus and Cuttlefish Embroidery

Though I prefer to point out neat things I'm unaffiliated with in the hopes that makes my opinion a little less biased and more trustworthy, there's times that someone I know comes up with just the neatest of neat things.  This is one of those cases.  These gorgeous (and free!) embroidery patterns for octopi and cuttlefish are just too gorgeous to not share.

My favorite is her Cuttlefish Love embroidery pattern -

And if thread's not your thing these would look great stenciled onto a table (how about that Ikea rolling shelf from a few posts ago?) or embossed onto brass or really anything else your creative mind comes up with.  

Other patterns, including one fantastic mass of rising tentacles, can be found here.