Here is a new design done for an upcoming trend for Spring Summer 2020 – Vibrant Tie Dye, highly saturated, psychedelic prints are going to be popular. See all my trend driven, commercial womenswear fashion print designs on Patternbank.
Rodarte Fall 2019 Anna Sui F 2019
I am very excited to share that I have been accepted to license my designs through, Patternbank the the world’s leading textile design studio for print, pattern, and trend forecasting! From now on I will be primarily focusing all my creative energy towards commercial womenswear prints and patterns. This is my favorite market to design […]
The making of a hand drawn “Indienne Floral” pattern…. After drawing my inspiration from old and new resources, trend research, and my personal flair, I begin drawing pencil motifs that I think I would like to use. Birds, flowers, leaves, bugs… these are all good icons for an Indienne Floral. I wanted to have a […]
One of the more delightful moments for any pattern designer is getting to see your patterns in their end use on products. I like to create mock ups of my designs and imagine how they might be used in the fashion marketplace. Here are some of my imagined ideas. You know you are keeping true […]
Really loving these fun paisley prints! I just took a 3 hour in depth class on paisley taught by Barberl Dressler via skillshare. Paisley is probably my favorite category to create!
I feel the same joy about a new year as I do a new blank pretty sketchbook. Excited to fill it, hopefully with my best efforts, but realistic that it can’t be perfect on every page. Actually, I started this Ninkybink website as a new year’s resolution in 2002 (boy was is a raw website […]
Let’s count down the days til Christmas with prints and patterns! Update # 25 – Christmas Day! Challenge Compete! Merry Christmas from Ninkybink.com! The FINAL DAY!!! DAY 24!! Theme: SANTA December 23- 2 days til Christmas! Theme: CHRISTMAS BELLS December 22- 3 days til Christmas! Theme: SLEIGH December 21- 4 days til […]
Here is my surface pattern design for the Sloth theme, in the upcoming Spoonflower challenge. This would be a lovely juvenile print for babies (apparel, bedding, car seat, etc) up to teen.
