4 DECEMBER

Before getting into the annual card-making session, I took a couple of days for a brief brainstorming session with pattern. I had bought a new duvet cover from George at Asda during the week and got interested in the old-worldly chintz pattern, so I traced it to see how it worked. Since August, when  jungly tendrils first showed up in my 100 days of cats project, I have wanted to experiment with using them in patterns, so inspired by tracing the duvet cover pattern I had a very quick cutting out session and began to play with symmetry and half drops. These quick sketches don’t stand up to close inspection due to speed of work, I would need to design them specifically to flow as a pattern, but I find the movement and delicacy interesting.

Now I’m going to have to have another brain-storming session with card images, because I haven’t the slightest idea what to do for my Christmas cards this year!

Thanks for visiting, see you next week