I Did it Again - Scandinavian Part 2

After my morning run, shower, and fruit smoothie, I sit down at my computer and start my work day.

If I don't have a specific job, I hunt through my many inspiration images to help me decide what to design next.

Well, darn it, if today I wasn't inspired by Scandinavian design again. And this after I vowed to create something sell-able.

Oh, if only Scandinavian would become the next big trend!

Resurrecting Forgotten Patterns

What good is that pretty dress doing you in the back of the closet? Get the thing out and wear it!

Same goes for patterns in your library. With me designing new patterns ALL THE TIME, adding to the hundreds and hundreds I already have, it pays to rummage through the old ones, find  the neglected, dust 'em off, and switch out the colors.

Maybe with the new coat of paint, and a new upload with my agent, it will sell!

Retro Icon Art

It's very trendy now, or rather WAS trendy a bit ago, creating images of retro items. As with most things it doesn't take long for us designer/artists to see something and then want to try our hand at it.

This was my take on the style, done a year ago.

It's very cool, if I do say so myself.

Scandinavian Pattern - Sort of

Here's a case where I got started on something and soon realized that it wasn't going to be a pattern that had much chance of selling. It's not something I would wear as a garment myself, nor would it fit into my decor.

And yet I pressed on with it until it was finished and then tweaked the colors until I exclaimed, "Oh, that's cute." 

Anyway, my next patterns will have the market place in mind.

Scandinavian Influences

My grandmother was Swedish, and I've got other Nordic blood in me, too. Maybe that explains my affinity for Scandinavian designs.

I seek them out and find comfort in their clean lines and familiar floral, leaf and flourish shapes.

I gathered 6 from my Scandinavian folder of designs, colored them in Spring 2015 color palette,  and made this collection.

New Quilts from Old Fabrics

I bought a cool old suitcase at a yard sale many years ago. Inside were scraps leftover from someone's quilt projects, sweet bits of calicos, little prints, and kitchey novelties patterns.

When I first learned to draw in Illustrator and then to create repeats, I was eager to reproduce these vintage designs. Since then, I have reinterpreted hundreds of these obscure, nameless patterns from the 30's through the 70's.

What joy.

Pheasants Design - For Life

It's too late for me to be married to someone for 50 years unless I get married tomorrow and live a really long time. But it's not too late to meet someone and be with them until the end of my life.

Either way, it's cool.

These birds will always be together, though. And now I've surrounded them with 5 coordinates and mapped it all in a 2D room.