Julia Rothman changed my life
Image by Julia Rothman
Julia Rothman changed my lifeI spent most of today breaking my brain trying to work out how to do a very simple repeat design (thanks so much to Wendren for your kind help).
I was despairing at my ineptitude, thinking I’d never manage any kind of complex repeat, and then I flipped to Design*Sponge, where Julia Rothman is guest blogging, and where she posted this amazing tutorial on how to make a repeat from a complicated image (the finished item pictured above)!
I think Julia just changed my life. Now, where are my scissors?
PS: Emma wants to know how cold it really gets in South Africa. Truth be told, and especially by Swedish standards, it’s not that cold at all – it’s been about 14 degrees C today. But it’s wet and it’s windy in Cape Town, and we’re really bad at insulating our homes down here, so it’s just as cold inside as it is outside. Also, we’re going through a nationwide electricity crisis, so I’m too scared to turn the heater on in case the whole country plunges into darkness. Yuk.
thewren
An absolute pleasure. Can’t wait to see the end result. š
orange you lucky!
I’ve seen the little tutorial by Julia on D*Sponge today and thought, boy, do we ever do it in a different way…
Great system though…I love her patterns.
Can’t wait to see what you come up with:)
On the heat note, when I lived in Israel, it was the same kind of winter and I remember how cold the marble floors are and the no insulation, and energy crisis… It’s really no fun;(
Freshly Found
OOh I am off to take a look. Sounds great! Even less sleeps now till your trip!
[I am just about finished producing the major work -needed to get our visas for Europe!]
HB
Great link again, thanks.
Francesca
oh my goodness, what amazing tips from julia rothman! thanks so much for passing this on. x
Jodi
Thanks for the tutorial! Also check out:
http://www.artlandia.com/
This is a plug in you can purchase for Illustrator or Photoshop to help create any variation of repeating patterns. I’ve had a lot of fun with it but it was still helpful to find out how it was done before the days of computer software!
cheers!
lusummers
holy moly, thats the most informative tute i’ve seen EVER. i’ve always wondered how it was done, and how simple is it in reality? cheers m’dears š
Rikkianne
Thank you so much! This is great!
lula cat
ooh oooh ooh! what a great tut! I love patterns and am a dear admirer of Julia Rothman. Heather! I saw your tea towels and aprons in the window at O.Live, looks so lovely!
natascha
š Oh! that’s a great tutorial! I’m sure you gonna do something reat!
HB
I’ve just been to Elle Blog and had a good giggle. Belinda Ormond is my ceramics teacher! One day I’m hoping to have some of her finess with clay!
masha
This is how I used to create my repeating textile patterns when I still did that. i completely forgot! Thanks for reminding me
tiel
as I am venturing into this realm myself I shall click away and see what they have to say. Looks very interesting…but try not to break your brain too much.
emma ::emmas designblogg::
Thanks for the tutorial, it looks great, and I’ve always wondered how to do this!
And thanks for answering my question about the weather! My ex was just in Johannesburg last week, and according to him it was around 23-24 cĀ° every day, that is why I asked. š ‘Cause you know, that is summer temperatures here, we often don’t get very much warmer days than that…
But 14 degrees with no insulation sounds pretty bad to me. I hate cold weather. (So why am I living in Sweden? Don’t know, guess it’s just an old habit… ;-))