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 SQUARES we take two base colors and make gradated squares, fading them into the lighter color in the center. The third base color is added to equal parts of the light color and used as a background. The stack of squares is reduced and recombined to make a square cane with 64 squares on its face. In some color schemes the "squares" have mushed around to look a bit more like "pebbles" but we like that look just as much.

This pattern was first developed in 2002

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