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stella

Small - to medium scaled, coordinating pattern inspired by vintage French textiles.

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It’s finally finished, only took four weeks. 🙄

I could have been a stand up comedian instead of a pattern designer by now. Did you know? 🤡⠀
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Apparently my parents and sister thinks I’m funny (or not!). So much that they got me a weekend course in stand up comedy for my 40th birthday. I was a bit split about it, I mean, I really like to challenge myself but this was an outright terrifying challange.⠀
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So when a friend signed up for a weekend course in creating patterns with @lottakuhlhorn I was quick to ask if I could switch my trying-to-be-funny class to that one instead.⠀
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I’ve always been so fascinated by patterns and how they repeat into infinity. So this course was spot on. The rest is history.⠀
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Do you have any turning points like that? Events or decisions that made your life take a completely different direction? Or could have gone down a really different path? Tell me in the comments, please, I looooove stories like that. 🤗

It’s really amazing how ones mood can swing from one end to another in just a few minutes. Let me tell you an example of somethibg that just happened. Like juuuust happened. It’s also a story about how my IT-department started to think they are so damn smart (but they really need to get a grip and some more training).⠀
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I was all swooped up in the pattern making process and turned to the color book library in Illustrator to start picking some Pantone colors for a palette, only to discover that the FHI guide had disappeared! What! I quit and restarted, tried a few other tricks I thought might help the program finding it, but no. Aaaaargh! Why, why me? Why now? I know, a first world problem, but you know how it is, all wrapped up in the process, in that flow...⠀
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So what to do now? Found the installer guide only to find out you can only use the registration code from the book once. 🙄. Chatted with the company where I bought it who could do nothing, but adviced me to try to download the color manager again.⠀
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Went to the Pantone website and (re)discovered that you can log in to download all your products (because if you’ve registered before YOU HAVE AN ACCOUNT! Sorry for the shouty capitals...)⠀
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So followed the steps, redownloaded the Pantone color manager, reexported into Illustrator and voilà! Everything in place once again.⠀
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Went from sour like an old wash cloth to happy as a fed baby in one second. I’d been so clever. .
The IT-dept are strutting around all big headed because they fixed the problem. Well, shouldn’t they have known what to do from start? And not mess up the Illustrator update they did yesterday? Just saying.⠀
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All’s well that ends well. ⠀
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Going to the dentist now, letting IT do their victory dance.

This week is all about research, inspiration, drawing, painting, scanning and vectorizing. New patterns are in the making!

As a home bound, home body designer I’m used to spend a lot of time by myself, so attending events like design markets are so exhausting. Fun yes, but takes a lot of energy. ⠀
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If you’re an introvert too you know how important the alone time is to reload, concentrate and the creating process. ⠀
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Tomorrow is back to normal and taking it eaaaaaasy. I plan to work on some new patterns and look at flowers. 🌸👀⠀
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How are you starting the new week?

Design Market
Saturday-Sunday this weekend.
At Färgfabriken in Liljeholmen, Stocholm.
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Welcome! We’re in takvåningen.

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