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.