“The stockings were hung by the chimney with care. In hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there.” He dropped off at the Rainbow Elephant blog in the wee hours of the night and blessed these new patterns for me to share. From another one of my Santa...
It’s Christmas Eve at our house. And as our family traditions would have it, this is the night we go out driving through the neighborhoods in town gazing at homes decorated with lights. And it’s these twinkley little beauties that have inspired...
Working off the holiday theme of “The 12 Days of Christmas” song I’ve decided to gift out to my blog visitors my “12 Patterns for Christmas.” Today I’ll share the first two and between now and the end of the year I will...
So I’m sitting at the airport last week as part of a group of folks welcoming some of our returning troops. The plane was delayed for quite a spell and so I busied myself doodling a little something for our “Puzzle Me This” challenge over in the...
I have been so busy with the Grand Opening Events over at the Line Weaving Community Forums, that November came and went without me adding even one new pattern here at the Rainbow Elephant. With only so many hours in a day I simply ran short on time folks. I...
I’m sharing with you today a drawing method that I like to follow from time to time and I thought you might enjoy it too. I call this Repeat Pattern Stacking. It’s super easy to do and a fun change of pace every now and again. I created this...
Below you’ll see the worksheet for my Line Weaving pattern Slapple. One for Soft Stacks also. And I included a short video tutorial showing how to draw them. My shaggy little fir-baby Lacey (who was in need of a major haircut) joined me for a moment or two on...
Here’s a little pattern that looks like candy-corn – a waxy little nibble of sugar seen in the stores around this time of the year here in the USA. To make this pattern you simply draw a series of rounded triangle shapes. They can be clustered randomly,...
So here’s a pattern I came up with a few months back that I thought you might enjoy playing with. It’s called Phuds and it’s one of those that you can easily put your own twist on. Filling the arms of the Phud with whatever design fits your fancy and...
I’m without laptop for now and that’s part of why I’ve been MIA. So I’m making do with my IPAD apps to produce a teaching video on how to create my line weaving pattern I originally called Blooming Lace – later zenned to Blasing....