Category: Repeat Pattern Design

A few years ago I found a load of little mice nests around my garden as the winter snow melted. This was my inspiration behind my entry for this week’s Spoonflower challenge, Sweet Dreams bedding.

Sweet Mouse Dreams

Pattern Clash is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge which will make for a headache inducing voting expereince I think!

I mixed florals and abstracts but kept a hue of blues and greens… to sooth my soul.

Floral Clash

I also created a whole collection- Pattern Clash based from elements from this design.

I designed a whole collection of birthday linens a few years back, so got stuck in a bit of a design funk when exactly the same design prompt I had given myself has come up as a Spoonflower design prompt this week. But then I had an aha moment.

Here are my Happy Birthday Birds!

Sweet white birds wearing birthday hats and carrying a birthday banner, swooping through blossom tress decorated with gifts, cupcakes and candles.

The last few weeks of the Spoonflower challenges have been a little disheartening. Cheating has been rife and one of the challenges was even won by an A.I design. After a bit of a fiasco it was disqualified but the fact that these designs are getting through at all is sad to say the least, it is not always easy to spot them. The challenges are so bloated with designs voting is an absolute pain in the arse.

I am tempted to give up on them altogether but I am still placing within the top 50 the majority of the time so I am going to continue for now on my quest to enter every single challenge.

This week the prompt is Doodle Bugs and I created quite a few option and have been left in a position of not really knowing which one to enter.

In the end I have gone for this one

Spiders waiting for a Ladybug Lunch!

And here are the other designs I created

Also in my dismay with the whole A.I thing I created another design.

I imagined one of those gorgeous traditional doll houses for this week challenge and created a very Victorian inspired floral design in beautiful cornflower blue. Yummy!

…and of course I created a couple of other colorways too.

The whole collection can be seen at

Victorian Inspired Florals

I went a little bit snake mad this week for the Spoonflower challenge!

I think the gray days we have been having here in Chicago have made me crave color even more than usual and I let rip with my color palette… dopamine decor anyone?

Snake Skin Shedding

The pattern will be viewed on a curtain panel for judging, they would certainly jazz up a boring room!

I also broke out some of patterns within my pattern to be stand up designs on their own and hence an easy collection was born.

This week’s Spoonflower challenge is a partnership with pottery studio East Fork to celebrate the launch of two new glazes, Piglet, which is a soft pink nd butter, and equally soft yellow.

I came up with a folk art bird.

Spring Birds

To be honest this color palette really didn’t talk to me but it didn’t stop me having a dam good play around with it and a whole collection of designs just evolved!

The spoonflower challenge this week is to design a wallpaper for an Italian villa. I went for the “bring the outside in” route and created a Tuscan Countryside design

Tuscany

I really love gardening and am sad that the growing season here in Chicago is so short. It was an absolute pleasure designing for this week’s Spoonflower challenge, Garden Bedding

I went with a very painterly style for this challenge and basically created my dream flowerbed

Summer Flowerbed