#mandala patterns

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[thingsorganizedneatly]

Flower Mandalas by Kathy Klein

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[nemfrog]

Parasol cover. Irish lace : report upon visits to convents, classes, and schools where lace-making and designing for lace are taught. 1887.

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[sproutinglupine]

Forest Mosaic

I had a completely different idea going into the pattern but I'm really happy where it ended up!

[darsynia]

Blanket finished!

I altered the pattern (Doo-dad by Hooked on Sunshine) because I felt that stripes would be a little bit less chaotic for a section, and I came up with the last couple rows of the border myself. Pictures as usual cannot do this justice but in the end I am pleased with it. It's slightly bigger than the gradient one!

Blanket number three is on tap! Here are the colors:

These are washed out, the bottom right colors and the darker teal are darker and more rich. I am currently trying to decide if I want to do a gradient like the first blanket or swap colors like the one that's above.

For completion's sake here is the gradient one:

All the same pattern, all the same yarn type but the colorway differs!

Hilariously of course, it is much more socially acceptable to sit in a group of family members and crochet than it is to write naughty FanFiction. The latter is going to have to wait at least another week!

[loosethreadstitchery]

Trying to do a bit more cross stitch in addition to my usual blackwork. Experimenting a bit here with placing the shades of green. Cross stitch on 18-count Aida. I stitched it in a 7-inch hoop so I'd have space, then finished it in a 5-inch.

Here's a google drive with the pattern - there's a regular .pdf and one that should work with Pattern Keeper, for anyone who uses it.

[lluertmandala]

[tilbageidanmark]

Dutch Quadrants

[image-junkie]

Aesthetics of Funk - Crocheted mandalas by Xenobia Bailey

Xenobia Bailey is a trash alchemist, a single stitch, urban crochet aficionado, designer, artist and community activist, whose practice industrializes the visual aesthetic of “Cosmic-Funk,” practiced by African-American homemakers since Emancipation, into utilitarian “Funktional” design. Media exposure ranges from an Absolut advertisement to a design consultancy with Disney World, and a subway mosaic commission from the MTA in New York. She has shown internationally, with such institutions as Creative Time, the Sharjah Art Foundation, and numerous U.S. Embassies. Her work is held by numerous museums, as well as in academic, corporate, public and private collections.

[cora-creates]

Gift has been given, so I can post this now! I’m so happy with how it turned out! Bonus hats in the corner.

[eccentricstylist]

Animated Mandalas (With Code!)

In some of the rare times where I create something small and cool, I love sharing it with other people :)

For context, I've been working on a video game and started looking into some loading screens. I got carried away a bit, but I loved the capabilities and parameters I could experiment with here!

Since my game is set in a Mystery Solarpunk world, I was aiming for brighter and lighter color schemes :).

I was surprised with how beautiful all the parameter combinations can be!

Code

So if you want to try it yourself, feel free to check out the following repo:

https://github.com/AB3000/processing-fun/tree/main/MandalaRunner

You will need to download Processing in order to run it. It's a nice open-source sketchbook language built on top of Java to draw some cool visuals :)).

If you end up creating something with it, please tag me so I can see your creations! B)

Also, if you happen to have a GitHub account, I would love it if you could star the repo as well (but no pressure on this!) :))

More Inspiration?

Want some more inspiration? Check out the examples here! :)

[duboisdraws]

Combining a bunch of things I like; mandalas, playing cards, and Baldur's Gate characters

[nemfrog]

"Illustrating the distribution of the endodermis in the genus Equisetum." The anatomy of woody plants. 1917.

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