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Granny Square Floral For Spoonflower

Granny Sq. Floral Wallpaper. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Granny Sq. Floral Throw. © 2022 Sheila Delgado. — Granny Sq. Floral Wallpaper. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Last week I designed two collections for the Spoonflower Granny Square challenge. I had no idea how I was going to create a faux-crochet effect. Looking at the challenge entries, I am amazed at the different ways designers achieved this.

My floral granny square has hundreds of layers. Each line, each petal. Whew! I knew that there would be lots of bright, colorful designs. So I decided to go with something softer. I am very happy with how this design turned out.

Voting is open now through the 30th. Yikes! The 30th? The 30-Day Creative Challenge is right around the corner! 🙂

Granny Square Floral Sample. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Granny Sq. Floral Collection. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

I designed the basket weave first. And I think I will go back and increase the size of the pom-pom. It seems too small. WIth this design, I think the brighter colors work better. Which do you like best?

Granny Square Basket Weave Collection. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

GS-Basket-Weave-SMDelgado — Granny Square Basket Weave Sample. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Twitchy Witch Close Up. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Twitchy Witch received 13 votes. Seems Appropriate. Haha. Unlucky 13 . Thanks so much for voting! I appreciate your support so much 🙂 Enjoy! 🙂

Pink Posies Surface Pattern

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Pink Posy Curtains. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

My entry for the Spoonflower Retro Floral Curtain Design Challenge. Yes, this looks familiar. I used some of the same blooms from the retro pillow challenge, but changed the palette.

I tried to do a more natural pussy willow design. Twiggy and delicate. But everything I have worked on this week has turned to muck. 😆 What could go wrong, has. With time running out, I decided to recycle.

Even then, more problems. My strokes, outlines, were messy and uneven on about half of the smaller blooms. And unfortunately, I hadn’t noticed until after I had duplicated many times. Uggh. I didn’t know what was wrong, so my fixes weren’t fixing. The only thing to do was to start over. Voila. 🤓

Pink Posy Sample. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Pink Posy Bedding. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Pink Posy Runner. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Pink Posy Placemats. © 2022 Sheila Delgado. — Pink Posy Runner. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

I tried a texture on the background. It looked great, but the seam was showing. For some reason it was not lining up to create a seamless pattern.

Pink Posy Collection. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Voting for the Retro Floral Curtain Challenge is open for five days. Last week’s Moon Sun design placed 456, (With 29 votes.) of 848 entries. That’s almost the top 50%. 😆 Thanks so much for voting. I really appreciate it. 😻

Challenge yourself,
it’s the only path which leads to growth.
Morgan Freeman

Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.
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There is no challenge more challenging
than the challenge to improve yourself.
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Merry Christmas Collection

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Merry Christmas Swatches. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Funny story. I worked on this design for a submission to Uppercase Magazine. The typography issue. But I missed the deadline. I was done, and I thought, I’ll look at it again tomorrow and make sure there aren’t any holes. Well, I woke up that morning knowing what day it was. But half way thru, my lupus brain glitched, and I lost track. LOL. UGH! Oh well. I have a new pattern, the swatches are ordered and it will be available in my Spoonflower shop soon.

Merry Christmas. In shades of prickly pear, desert rose, desert clay, Sedona sand, ocotillo red and desert pine.