March 05, 2008

Garden Plan





The illustration just above these lines (found while looking through some old books) inspired me to create this new pattern.
It's about a garden plan/diagram showing some convenient layout for planting trees and others. I thought I'd end up with a striped pattern, something similar to the original illustration, but as I started I got increasingly amused arranging my own vegetables and trees so the outcome is more packed. And there are some words in Spanish for my favourite fruits and vegetables (apple tree, pear tree, carrot, beetroot, lettuce) and favourite garden flower (hollyhock). Manzano, peral, zanahoria, betarraga, lechuga, malva.

What about the colourways? From above
[Eggplant + Ether Blue] and [Cinnamon Pink + Eggplant]. Are these going to be printed? Don't know yet.

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I wanted to thank MStetson Design and the SCOOP for their nice posts on my work. It's so encouraging! Thanks!

2 comments:

orange you lucky! said...

Very nice blog you got here Karen!
I love your t-towels and your latest garden pattern.
You got me really curious about hand felting. I am not really familiar with felting, but the results look very neat. I would have to try it:)

plush patterns said...

Hi Karen,
thanks for the comment. Great to see you're garden plan patterns. That's a clever way to weave in a story into patterns, I like how it's packed with fruit and veg ! great place to get inspiration from. I think you should print them ! can't wait to see more work, x