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Georgia and I are always working on new ideas for patterns and prints for the fabric line. These inspirations come from a wide range of places-travel, illustration, historical pattern books, texture, and our daily surroundings.  The below pattern is something that I have been doodling in some form or another for as long as I can remember. Whenever I was bored in school, I would fill the pages of my composition books with various markings and sketches. I never imagined that one day these designs would come in handy.

All of the prints shown in this post are still in the design and development phase. In addition to working the tweaks of a pattern out, this is also when we begin to play around with color. It is amazing how different a print can look when the colors are changed. A great example of this is below.

The above motif is something that I freehand sketch last week. I am really loving a cool mint green and was surprised to see how well it paired with orange. We will have to see the strike-off before unleashing this daring color combination on the world!

The below design is another doodle. You can see my shaky hand here where the hatch marks of the lines are crossing! Sometimes I like seeing these things and other times I feel it looks unfinished. Again, we won't know until the strike-offs arrive.

The circle pattern below is taken from a manipulated photograph of some old book binding paper.  It is similar to something one would find under a microscope, but still graphic and interesting.

Below are some strike-offs that recently arrived from the printer....