Citrus Squares

It's a little late but I'm still going to file this under #WeeklyPatternWednesday

Lemon Blossom

I made a lemonade inspired print for this week's Spoonflower contest. I named it "Lemon Party" because I'm a horrible person (don't google that. I'm serious.).  It's now entitled "Lemon Blossom," and apologies for my horrible internet humor.

Half-drop picnic

Here's my first half-drop repeat:

Skillshare Progress

Tonight I worked on the first part of the Skillshare class on Repeating Patterns in Adobe Illustrator. The goal of the class is to design a pattern to enter in Spoonflower's upcoming Picnic themed contest.

The first part of the project helped me come up with a concept. I've chosen "Gourmet Getaway" because if I have a picnic, I'm going to splurge on fine food.

Here are a few sketches:

Here's my class project, which I will update as I progress.

Spotted: Around Boston (Saturday's Patterns)

I spent the weekend in Boston and photographed different patterns I found around town. First, here are some cool patterns from the Museum of Science. First is big cats:

This is coral, which has a neat organic structure:

I like the series of spots on this urchin:

Here is a Lepidodendron fossil, a prehistoric plant with scaly bark.

Here are some beautiful tiles from the T (subway):

I found some socks at the mall:

Lovely men's ties from Thomas Pink:

A Moroccan inspired pattern from kate spade new york.

Here's the beautiful wallpaper in the dressing room at the kate spade new york boutique on Newbury Street.

This cute giraffe pattern is from a tie by Salvatore Ferragamo.

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This seahorse pattern is from J. Crew