Day #4: Design A Repeating Pattern

In this lesson, we get to make a repeating pattern!

I'll never forget the exact moment that I created my very first repeating pattern. It was not pretty, but I was so proud of it. I immediately sent it to my mom and I think we both shed tears over it. Ha!

When you see your design in repeat for the first time, it's like magic. You'll know you've been bitten by the 'repeating pattern bug' when you start seeing patterns everywhere, you try to find the repeats in the patterns you see and you can't stop creating your own.

CLASS TOOLS + SUPPLIES

• A pencil, pen and/or paint
  
  • Uni Pens
  • Palomino Blackwing Pencils
  • Black Ink
• A few found items like leaves or string - anything that will scan in flat will work!
• White paper
  • Sketchbook
• A scanner (If you don't have a scanner, you can take a photo of it with your phone!)
  • Canon Scanner
  • iScanner
• Adobe Illustrator (You can start a free trial here.)
  
  

WATCH LESSON #4

Lucky for us, there are some pretty amazing print-on-demand companies. This makes getting products printed with our designs easy!

HERE ARE MY FAVORITE RESOURCES

→ Fabric: Spoonflower​
→ Tissue Paper: Noissue
→ Mailers, tape: Noissue
→ Wallpaper: Spoonflower
→ Gift Paper: Jukebox or Stationery HQ​
→ Mugs, bags, rugs, prints (and so much more): Society6
→ Cell phone cases: Casetify or Skinit​
→ Paper Products: Overnight Prints​
→ Journals + Notebooks: Stationery HQ, Blurb Books, Moo​

In the next lesson, I'll show you how my fabric turned out and what I'm doing with it! :)

SHARE YOUR PROGRESS!

Use the hashtag #LearnWithBonnieChristine and tag me @bonniechristine to share your work with us on Instagram. We can't wait to see what you create! Those who share using this tag and hashtag during the pattern challenge will automatically be entered to win the PRIZES!