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Peaceful Blue Plaid for Spoonflower

French Blue Plaid. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
French Blue Plaid. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.

Plaids have proven to be popular on Spoonflower. French blue is a smokey grey-blue. I brightened it up and added contrast with the crisp white windowpane plaid. Our assignment this week is French Country Table Linens. I am again taking the minimalistic route. I know it won’t put me in the top 60, but necessity won out.

Peaceful? Perky? Poised? Pleasant? Polished? 😆

Sunny Sage & Spice swatch. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Sunny Sage & Spice swatch. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.

Sunny Sage placed at  #838 out of 1506 with 25 Votes. That is just over 55%. Boggles my mind. That so few votes are anywhere near the halfway mark. 🤔😆 Woo Who!! I am so thankful for your votes and support!

Voting is now open for French Blue Plaid until the 11th. Thanks so much lifting me up! (From the bottom of the list, 😆)

French Blue Samples. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
French Blue Samples. Click on image to see more. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.

I am thinking about friends, that had a horrible couple of days.
All is well now, but they are in my thoughts, and prayers.
Thinking of you too! And praying all is well in your neck of the woods!

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Anonymous

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

Sunny Sage for Spoonflower

Sunny Sage & Spice swatch. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Sunny Sage & Spice swatch. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.

This pattern came by way of a long and winding path. Do you remember the Family Circus comic strips showing how young Billy spent his day? Yup, it was like that. The assignment was a non-directional wallpaper. One that might even work on ceilings.

I started with the idea of bamboo sprigs. Researched designs and colors for my mood board. Came back a day later and was thinking desert, prickly pear. Hmm.

I have this idea, to revisit some of my early design themes. Patterns that are one-offs. Then I can create a collection of similar themed prints. I started on a prickly pear. And changed my direction again.

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My copy of The Grammar of Ornament caught my eye, and saved me from my indecision. I landed on the mediaeval chapter. The geometric patterns created by William Butterfield were appealing. He used them to decorate his brick buildings. Polychrome brickwork is a style of architectural brickwork where bricks of different colors are used to create decorative patterns or to highlight architectural features.

Butterfield’s designs were called diapers. From the Oxford Dictionary of Architecture:

diaper 

Decorative pattern on a plain, flat, unbroken surface consisting of the constant repetition of simple figures (such as squares, lozenges, or polygons) closely connected with each other.

Sunny Sage & Spice decor. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Sunny Sage & Spice decor. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.

You are absolutely right. There is nothing “sage” about this. The title came to me as I was working, and it stuck. Definitely more of an avocado. Or Palo Verde green. (Arizona’s state tree.)

Voting is now open, until the 4th of July. Thanks so much for your interest and support!

Dahlia Dreams Bedding

Dahlia Dreams Sheet Set. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Dahlia Dreams Sheet Set. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Sweet Dreams. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Sweet Dreams. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.

This design started out soft, pale, tone on tone. I really liked it. Calm. What I had in mind. Then I thought about how it would look surrounded by colorful patterns. And I went bold. Or at least, bolder.

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Dahlia Dreams Close-up. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Dahlia Dreams Close-up. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.

Dahlia Dreams, my entry for the Spoonflower Sweet Dreams Bedding Challenge.
Voting open until May 23rd.
Thanks for taking a look, and for your consideration in the voting. 🙂

Dahlia Dreams Duvet. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Dahlia Dreams Duvet. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Polka Plaid Collection. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Polka Plaid Collection. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.

Polka Plaid placed in the top 25%, with 54 votes. Woo Whoo!!

The majority seem to prefer busy and over the top. Those designs always do well, and did again this round. Take a look at the top 65, here

Thanks so much for voting for this design! I’m stoked at placing so high! Woo Whoo! 🙂

Wishing you JOY!

Good night, good night!
Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare

The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams
Eleanor Roosevelt

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which
you kneel to say your nightly prayer.
Maya Angelou