Monochrome Dot/ Stripe for Your Consideration

A new Spoonflower Challenge is up for voting.

The brief: This week’s theme is a twist on a community favorite, the limited color palette. After selecting one color (hue) of your choice, put your skills to the test by creating a repeating design only using tones, tints and shades of this hue. Black and white can be included.

Here is my entry:

Vote here until 3/26.
There are 755 entries, displayed randomly. Thanks in advance for slogging through them!

#AtoZchallenge 2018 -- Fluevogs Again!

The Blogging From A to Z Challenge starts April 1st and this week participants reveal their planned theme for 2018.
Here's mine:

I'm nowhere near cleaning up last year's A-Z Fluevogs, so why not draw some more?

I'm wondering whether to hand draw the shoes like I did last year:

 Or use a cleaner drawing traced over a photo in Illustrator:

Which to you prefer?

Curious about the challenge?

Read about it here.

Fluevog #vog_beesknees Repeat on Repeat

This one took a lot of rehab!

For the original post, I didn't achieve the under-and-over lattice effect that I wanted, and didn't have time to figure it out.
I cropped a screenshot of the repeat layout for my posting here and on Instagram.

entire screenshot!

cropped image used for posts

It took a lot of retouching in Photoshop to get it correct (or as close to correct as I feel like getting). The shoe sketch got a major facelift as well. And color corrections! Fluevog is not too accurate with color on their website, so I called upon guidance from some Fluezies (Fluevog fanatics) on Facebook. Angelique sent me this photo of her own shoe:

I used it for my blue/pink colorway:

Shopping links [I get a commission]:
• Black/ White colorway on Redbubble  || on Spoonflower
• Blue/Pink colorway on Redbubble  || on Spoonflower

Which pattern should I fix next?