Fabric prints online

This looks interesting. Spoonflower, based in the US but will ship internationally and stock nine different types of fabric. What a good idea, I'm might give it a go myself.

Create seamless patterns online

Colourlovers.com has a nice page where you can create seamless auto-repeating patterns and let the rest of the community colourise them for you. As well as other colour related info.

Polaroid effect in Photoshop

Here are two different ways of creating a faux Polaroid effect using Photshop.
Polaroid 1
Polaroid 2
And here are some frames, you just need to remove the black inner and place your image behind.

Drawing without the Pen Tool

I'd recommend you watch this Lynda.com tutorial on drawing without using the Pen tool if you are having difficulty getting to grips with it. It is quite lengthy but worth watching from start to end.

Remember to access this via your UniHub login to get the whole chapter.

Fashion Illustrator books in the library

We have a number of titles in the library that you might find helpful.
Creative fashion design with Illustrator / Kevin Tallon.
Technical drawing for fashion / Basia Szkutnicka.
Fashion designer's handbook for Adobe Illustrator / Marianne Centner and Frances Vereker.

If you browse around in this section of the library you will find other related books.

Illustrator Pen tool exercise

Click here, save and open this file:

Download the Pen tool exercise

Originally from here.

Inspiration

Not fashion related but good to see what is possible in vector form using Illustrator.
Vectips.com a good place to go to regularly.