Tessellation Day 31

Last but not least, one that was a long time coming... bacon.

Tessellation Day 30

Can you guess what this is? As I was working out the design, I instantly thought flying squirrels!!! but my drawing is a little confusing, even if you know what you're "supposed" to be looking at. The dark colored squares are bushy tails, and I added little eyes and ears.

Tessellation Day 29

I have a new webpage! This post has moved here: http://www.allykraus.com/wp/2011/08/29/tessellation-day-2930/

Tessellation Day 28

I have a new webpage! This post has moved here: http://www.allykraus.com/wp/2011/08/28/tessellation-day-2830/

Tessellation Day 27

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Tessellation Day 26

Tessellation Day 25

More curves, this one is kind of a fail. I like the background pattern but the wavy foreground stripes are not the best.

Tessellation Day 24

I have a new webpage! This post has moved here: http://www.allykraus.com/wp/2011/08/24/tessellation-day-2430/

Tessellation Day 23

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Tessellation Day 22

Trying something a little simpler...

Tessellation Day 21

Tessellation Day 20

I have a new webpage! This post has moved here: http://www.allykraus.com/wp/2011/08/20/tessellation-day-2030/

Tessellation Day 19

I have a new webpage! This post has moved here: http://www.allykraus.com/wp/2011/08/19/tessellation-day-1930/

Tessellation Day 18

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Tessellation Day 17

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Tessellation Day 16

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Tessellation Day 15

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Tessellation Day 14

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Tessellation Day 13

Back to pen and paper again...

Tessellation Day 12

Another attempt at GIMP. This time, using this cell with a new rotation pattern.

Tessellation Day 11

Trying to figure out how to use GIMP so I can more easily to flips, rotations and curves...

Tessellation Day 10

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Tessellation Day 9

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Tessellation Day 8

I have a new webpage! This post has moved here: http://www.allykraus.com/wp/2011/08/08/tessellation-day-830/

Tessellation Day 7

Tessellation Day 6

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Tessellation Day 5

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Tessellation Day 4

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Tessellation Day 3

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Tessellation Day 2

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Tessellation Day 1

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Tessellations! - 30 Day Challenge

I recently re-discovered an amazing book: Designing Tessellations by Jinny Beyer. I think it’s out of print, and I was lucky to find a copy on Etsy.

My goal for this month is to design a tessellation a day. I love geometric designs and am fascinated with repeated needlepoint stitches and repetitive patterns I see around. I began doing some tessellation design accidentally when I went through a phase of cross stitching my name in binary. The abstract design really lent itself to experimentation and I realized I could create larger patterns by rotating and offsetting the “tile” of my name. I like the idea too of taking something meaningful (my name) obscuring it and making it abstract (translating it into binary) and then creating meaning and order again by finding a design.

I hope to work my way through the book, formally learning about the different types of symmetry, and then apply that to my own designs. At the end, if I have a design I really like, I want to have it printed on Spoonflower and create something from it for my new apartment… curtains? pillow? a quilt?