That's New to Me

SuzyMosh has a weekly challenge that I really like: using patterns we are unfamiliar with, starting with a certain letter. It's the That's New to Me challenge. This week the letter is C. I found all my patterns on tanglepatterns.com which is a wonderful resource that I find myself going to every day.

I found a pattern I've never done before: cabana. It's cool because it has a 3-D effect, and can be made in straight lines, or inside of curved lines. I played with it quite a bit:

cabana on a curve

it looks so architectural

When I had played with cabana a while, something just came along under my pen. It has its roots in cabana, to be sure, but making everything curvy puts a very organic look to it.

See, to the right. It looks like a leaf or a rib cage. Organic. Of course, that smoke stack looking thing is pretty cool, too.

Cabana!


















And here is the piece I ended up creating for the challenge. I used Camellia, Chard, Cabana, (cabana split leaf...is that what I'll call it?) and Chainlette.

I like how the split leaf looking thing is over the chainlette. 

Chard is another pattern I'd like to play with. it reminds me of origami, especially once the shading is added. Camellia is such an active pattern, makes the eye move, when you have a lot of it together.

This was a fun challenge. All new patterns, and one variation that might be a new pattern of its own!