Most of my patterns start with three somewhat dark base colors and a fourth color which is used to lighten and brighten the other three. This fourth color is usually White, but I sometimes also use Tan, Yellow or Gray for other interesting effects. The finished product is called a "cane" and can be compared to a roll of slice-and-bake cookie dough where the pattern is visible in any cross-section.

For KALEIDOSCOPE we take the three base colors and make gradated bullseyes, fading them into the lighter color in the center. They're manipulated into teardrop shapes and placed side-by-side into a triangle cane. Lighter versions of the three colors are rolled into small snakes and used as accents down the length of the triangle. The cane is reduced, halved and re-assembled into a new triangle. A sheet of the lightening color along with snakes of the three base colors are placed along one side of the triangle. The cane is reduced, halved and re-assembled as a square. The cane is then reduced, quartered, and re-assembled again.

This pattern was first developed in 2005

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