A number of my blog posts are primarily tutorials on the techniques or processes I’ve used.  (I do this partly so I can remember how I did something…).  Here I’ve tried to organize these tutorials to make them easier to find.

Photoshop Tutorials

I use both Photoshop (I have version CS5) and Photoshop Elements (version 7)–Elements is the slightly scaled-down, but much cheaper, version of Photoshop.  Many of the posts show the specific steps in Photoshop Elements.  In Photoshop, the steps are pretty much the same, though the menu/commands might be called something a bit different.

• Create a Seamless Repeat – part 1
• Create a Seamless Repeat – part 2
• Half-Drop Repeat
• Half-Brick Repeat
• Making the Repeat Less Boxy
• Create a Tartan Plaid
• Color Reducing a Design – part 1
• Color Reducing a Design – part 2
• Using Colorways
• Developing a Color Palette
• Super Quick Plaids
• Easy Digital “Batiks”
• Houndstooth Patterns
• More Fabric Weaves

• Example Designs Made Using Photoshop
•     Urban Sunset
•     Urban Sunset Revisited
•     Gockoo’s Apple Crisp
•     Fun Daisies

Illustrator Tutorials

These tutorials show how to work with Adobe Illustrator to create repeating patterns.

• Super Quick Plaids
• Seamless Repeats
• Half-Drop Repeats
• Half-Brick Repeats – part 1
• Half-Brick Repeats – part 2
• Illustrator CS6’s New Pattern Function
• Using Illustrator’s Clipping Mask

• Example Designs:Made Using Illustrator
•     Kites
•     Not Boxed In
•     Fun Daisies
•     Turtles on the Beach
•     Dancing Matisse
•     Turtle Tee

Fabric Design

• Hand Drawn Repeats

Quilts and Quilting

• Creating the Prairie Grasses Quilt:
•     Sketching Quilt Designs
•     Finalizing a Design
•     Constructing the Quilt from the Design
• Creating the Moonstruck Quilt:
•     Initial Design
•     Simplifying the Design (Making it Sewable)
•     Accurate Curved Piecing
• Other Quilts:
•     Sewing Inset Circles

Notan

• Kites
• My Take on Notan

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
— Henry Ford