Woven Octagonal Stars

A Monthly Pattern | May 2026

This month’s pattern is a repeating pattern of eight pointed stars, decorated to look like two interwoven squares.

The inspiration for this pattern was this page of parquet flooring designs from Franz Sales Meyer’s Handbook of Ornament:

All of these would make a great starting point for a pattern and it would be an interesting exercise to draft them all. I particularly like No. 8, perhaps that could be a future month’s pattern! No. 10 has similarities with January 2025‘s hexagonal border so you could use that construction as a starting point if you were interested in trying it.

Outlines for this pattern are available for all members below and your drawing and painting video tutorials, along with all the supplies I’ve used for this project, can be found in the Pattern Lovers members section.

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Italian Floor Tiling

A Monthly Pattern | April 2026

This pattern is one of two in F. M. Hessemer’s 1842 pattern resource which includes designs from Italy and from the Islamic world. This is attributed to a pattern of tiles a church floor from Florence, so I’ve painted it using the same palette of colours as used in the book which resemble different colours of marble tiles and used the qualities of watercolour to bring out that sense of them being stone. (I do like the colour illustrations in this book)

I do love analysing and recreating patterns and this one was no different! It may be more straightforward in terms of being made up of simpler shapes than recent patterns in the library, but it’s very rewarding to draw and paint.

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For Pattern Makers, you’ll find two videos this month; a ‘drawing’ video where I share the process of making the pattern using ruler, pencil and compasses. The second video is a painting video where I share my watercolour process. You’ll also see my supply list for this project including all the colours I used.

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Curved Tiling Pattern

Curved Tiling Pattern | A YouTube Pattern

How to make a tessellating pattern of decorative tiles.

This video is available as a free YouTube tutorial with ads available from the button below, or as an ad-free version for paid members further down the page.

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Daisy Quatrefoil Pattern

A Monthly Pattern | August 2025

This month I had a desire to make something simple; I still wanted to craft a pattern with care but to make it one that had fewer frills than in previous months. I’d be interested to know what you think! Part of me wants to go back and add more details to this. I definitely want to make some variations on this theme.

I started with the idea of a quatrefoil pattern – a pattern repeating on a square grid with four rounded petals. There are lots of versions of this, many more elaborate than others. You’ll see, in the video for this one, I decided to go the way of making a 1960’s feeling pattern repeat with simple floral shapes and it definitely developed as I was creating it!

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This pattern was created before I began doing live sessions.

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Decorative Scallop Pattern

A Monthly Pattern | July 2025

In this month’s video, I’m returning to a favourite pattern – scallop shapes – only this time repeated to make an ogee shape that then tiles across the page.

The pattern was inspired by this book: A text book dealing with ornamental design for woven fabrics by Stephenson and Suddards. I’ve actually used a design from the same page previously!

This was a pattern that featured in my Ko-fi membership from July 2025.

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Celtic Step Patterns

YouTube Patterns | May and June 2025

In Summer of 2025, while researching Celtic art, I made a couple of video tutorials on Celtic step patterns. These are available free to view, with adverts, on YouTube. Find them using the buttons below.

Find the downloadable outlines in the community tier section.

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Escher’s Game

A Monthly Pattern |March 2025

In March 2025, I played with a pattern that I came across while reading about MC Escher. Alongside information about his prints using tessellating shapes, explorations of perspective and representations of infinity, was a tiny section about a ‘game’ he made up for himself by carving a small stamp and playing with the pattern variations.

This video is a recreation in watercolour of one of his patterns and instructions on how to go about constructing this and developing many more patterns from this one building block.

This was a pattern that featured in my Ko-fi membership from March 2025.

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Guilloche

A Monthly Pattern | October 2024

Here’s October 2024’s pattern of the month.

I took inspiration once again from a vintage design textbook. I looked at lots of versions of the guilloche pattern in borders and mosaic and architecture, but there was something about this one I really liked and thought would translate well into watercolour. I hope you enjoy painting this one along with me.

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Double Scallop Pattern

A Monthly Pattern | September 2024

Hello folks here is your exclusive video for September 2024, I hope you enjoy this one. I loved painting this modified scallop pattern. I’m looking forward to seeing what you do with it. I went with some expressive Fleur-de-lis motifs as in the inspiration pic but you could add any patterns you like in here to decorate it!

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Split Ribbon Celtic Knot

A Monthly Pattern | July 2024

A celtic knot made more complex by creating a split ribbon effect.

If you enjoy this project, you may like my free Celtic Knot YouTube playlist sharing various forms of knots you can draw and paint.

If you liked this and want to explore further, check out my comprehensive Celtic Knot course.