Optical Illusions

While researching trends for a client, I came across some optical illusion designs and sort of got caught up in them for an afternoon and made some repeats.

And I got a little queasy looking at them!

View at your own risk!

Colorblast June 2015 by Design Options

I was featured this very dynamic slide show by Design Options. Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to scroll across.

It's a long story, but I actually came to Kim Designs via Design Options, a fortuitous meeting! Kim has been instrumental as my agent for making design sales for me.

Today's image is a design done recently, and likely will become part of a collection called "Parlor."

I've been busy this last week or so working on new designs for Needlepaint, which is always a lot of fun.

Oh, and I've FINALLY redone my website. It looks pretty much the same but I was able to get out from under an old and vulnerable Joomla website. Wonderful!

My Interview with Make It In Design

In week that otherwise saw me designing like crazy - designs no one has seen yet - my interview with Make It In Design has been posted.

Another One of THOSE Weeks!

By that I mean, I didn't do much new designing, but instead was doing some hourly graphic jobs for some of my awesome clients!

Heck, I want them to be successful as much I they do! And what a blessing that I made a living as a graphic designer this week.

I did create a promotional for my Modern Yardage collection Hedgerow in Summer.

Multi-purpose Floral

Gotta keep 'em coming. Large scale, small, ditzy, contemporary, classic, mod, flower power, elegant ... you name it.

Florals are the most sought after patterns.

Here's the one I did today. I'm still working out the colors.

Spring is in the Air

I haven't felt all that great the last week or so. But, that doesn't stop me from my near daily run or from my workouts. And it certainly hasn't gotten in the way of my designing and playing with color.

Maybe Spring is in my blood.

Oh, have I ever got some wonderful collections in the pipeline!!!

This pattern I'm featuring today is not yet a part of a collection, but it sure is jazzy!

Productive Couple of Weeks

You can just forge ahead day to day and not see any real progress.

But, then in flash, you can see that it has all added up to something.

This week I made some fantastic sales to some big names - sorry, I can divulge who, what or how much - but let's just say I know that June and July's rent is taken care of. Whew.

Here's what I created today, which will end up in a collection for quilters.