During a recent group mentoring call, someone gave me some advice in reference to me having such a hard time creating blender patterns. Some people in the chat mentioned designing for upholstery fabric, wallpaper and home decor.

As I’ve shared a few times here on my blog, I creating blender prints and coordinates don’t come as easily to me as hero patterns. 

As you can see below, I was finally able to create some blenders and coordinates and I do like them.  But I realize I like smaller collections of between 2-4 patterns. The idea of creating a collection of 8-12 patterns is totally overwhelming to me. And here’s the thing. Maybe I’ll get there some day, but for now I think I’m going to stop worrying about it so much and focus on what come naturally.

Hopefully soon, as I get more knowledge and practice under my belt, creating a full collection of 6-12 patterns will be easier.

To get a better sense of what I had, I decided to pull together some combinations that I think look good together. Obviously I don’t want to reuse patterns between collections. But I wanted to see how I felt about these small collections and look at them in relationship to marketing towards the home decor market.

I think some of them look great together and can see them on upholstery, curtains, wallpaper, pillows, rugs, duvet covers, sheets, etc.