Happy holidays everyone! It’s time for our annual recap, and we needed an appropriate theme for the year in which there was an explosion of internet memes. One favorite was the short-lived Texts from Hillary (be sure to check out the archive). So, here’s our salute to everything that was fantastic in 2012. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Frosty Flakes
When I was in 7th grade my science fair project was on snowflakes, and I learned how to capture snowflakes in a plastic solution on glass slides and then photograph them. My inspiration was Wilson Bentley’s work. So, when Spoonflower’s weekly contest was to create a snowflake design, I knew I’d have to design something.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any of my snowflake photos any more, so I looked around the web for inspiration. You can see many more beautiful snow flakes like these at SnowCrystals.com.
Snowflakes and Creating a Half-Brick Repeat in Illustrator or Photoshop
I’ve been working on a snowflake design for another Spoonflower contest. When I thought I was all done with it, I realized that it would look better as a half-brick repeat rather than a straight repeat. It took me a while to rework it into a half-brick repeat, so I thought I’d show the basic steps in this post, and then cover the details in another post.
A half-brick repeat is similar to a half-drop repeat which I covered in this post. The picture below shows the difference between a straight repeat (on the left) where the stars are lined up on top of each other, and a half-brick (on the right) where each row of stars is offset from the rows above and below.
Stargazer — A Small Quilt for AAQI
Each spring the Milwaukee Art Museum has a 4-day exhibit called Art in Bloom which pairs amazing floral arrangements with the museum’s artwork. We went to the show last spring, and I took tons of photos of the flowers.
Color On Cloth 