Two kinds of blankets

The last two contests were for designs for very specific usages. First, a large-scale pattern that could be used for a duvet cover (which is one of the pre-made options you can get via Spoonflower now), in neutral tones. Then, a 1-yard design that could be made into a cheater quilt.

For the duvet, I based my design off of this quilt.



It's...pretty meh, I guess. Definitely missing something.

For the cheater quilt, I've always wanted to do a take one on of those amazing Tibetan tiger rugs, so I took this opportunity!



Yes, this is stretching the bounds of a cheater quilt, which technically should look like patchwork, but I'm calling it "faux applique."  I'm pleased with this one! It got into the top quarter of entries.

My favorite duvet pattern was the first-place winner, and my favorite cheater was the cathedral windows.

Flags, blocks, cocoons

For the "moths" contest I reused the cocoon design I made before, with a slightly different repeat and different colors. My favorite was the Mayan-style moths.



For the pirates theme, I did a bunch of designs based on real pirate flags, then improvised a bunch in the same vein. Had a ton of fun with this one but it didn't go anywhere in the contest. I liked this gray/sepia design.



Then for "colorblocking," I used the same colors as the dog noses with some basic geometric shapes.



This actually did pretty well and got into the top 20% of entries. My favorite was this one, which is based on a patchwork design.