How I designed the enchanting Garden Daydreams repeat pattern collection
- florrie holiday
- Sep 27, 2024
- 1 min read
Inspiration
Often when I sit drawing, I find myself daydreaming whilst looking out at my neighbour’s beautiful apple tree. So many times, I have found myself absolutely lost in thought just mesmerised by this one particular tree and so I knew I had to recreate its glory in a repeat pattern. Then one day, as I was in the middle of creating this new modern vintage style collection, I was looking out into my garden, and we were visited by the most stunning dragonfly. He stayed for a while, danced merrily about the sky, and then vanished back to wherever it was he came from……. a little creature that has never visited our garden before and I haven’t seen him since. So, I just knew that he wanted to be included in my new “garden daydreams” pattern collection.
Three words to describe the collection
botanical / enchanting / trailing
Mood board
Motif creation
All motifs were lovingly hand sketched in pencil and details were added with fine liners. Colourful accents were hand-painted in watercolour paints and added to the apple orchard daydreams pattern. The final repeat patterns were then created using Adobe Illustrator.
Finalising colourways
To recreate the feeling of wandering through a beautiful apple orchard, I decided to use dusky blue, sage green and rust orange. I felt these colours were perfect for a timeless design collection that could be used in projects that span across many seasons.
Final Collection
The final collection consists of three patterns;
