Daily Pattern: Versailles

“I was recently lucky enough to travel to France, and spent a day at Versailles. I just loved Marie Antoinette's little farm - the houses were so cute! The scenery, art and furniture of Versailles were definitely an inspiration to me, especially all of the wonderful damask patterns - I have photos of the wallpaper and textiles alone! I added a sun into the pattern as a tribute to Louis the XIV, the Sun King.”

-Erin

Daily Pattern: Mounting Butterflies

Topic: Butterfly

“I have always been fascinated with mounted and framed butterflies and would love to have a pink, polka-dotted wall to display a collection of them someday. A girl can dream, can't she?”

-Erin

Daily Pattern: Nice People

Topic: Nice

“Nice is a difficult word to define, much less illustrate...so I thought about all of the other words we use that can mean nice, and while looking through the sketchbook I was jotting them down in, I noticed that I draw a lot of happy, goofy people who would have nice hair if they were real. I kept it 2-color because my sketchbooks are usually just pen and ink. I like to think that all of the people in my pattern are nice people!”

-Erin

Daily Pattern: Bodega

Topic: ditzy/calico

“This pattern is dedicated to all of the flowers in NYC that are dyed unnatural shades of turquoise, and sold at many of the delis - AKA bodegas - in every neighborhood in the city. Very strange to see but still very pretty in a vase on my coffee table!”

-Erin

Daily Pattern: Debil Moon

Topic: Harvest

I'm happy to present this week's featured friend, Erin Klauk! She's starting us off with her lovely, seasonally festive harvest moon pattern.

“The story behind my pattern is that when I was a little girl and it was autumn in New England, my older brother and I loved when the moon was big and orange, a harvest moon. We called it the Devil Moon but I couldn't pronounce the V, so it became the "Debil Moon". My family has a history with words kids can't pronounce becoming the real names for things, so not only do we still call it a Debil Moon, but we have a great uncle named Poo Goo because my mother couldn't say "Mike" when she was little.

I am an illustrator who has always had a strong affinity with patterns and textures, which led me to textile and surface design. While I mainly illustrate and hand letter psychedelic gig posters and album covers for local bands, I also make tea towels and small fabric goods from my textile designs. My website is erinaceous.blogspot.com, my twitter is @klaukie, and my facebook "like" page can be found at http://www.facebook.com/pages/erinaceous-illustration/118033434576 . I also have an etsy page which will be up and running in a few weeks, just in time for holiday shopping: http://www.etsy.com/shop/erinaceous. I live in Brooklyn, NYC (soon to be San Francisco, CA!) with my super sweet boyfriend Josh and our wonderful cat, Catter.”