
An Ode to the Unfinished: Meet Our Pattern Graveyard
we finish a lot of things. But we don’t finish everything—and we’re not afraid to admit it.
Scattered across sketchbooks, studio drawers, and slightly wrinkled pieces of Aida cloth live the half-stitched, the never-framed, and the “we’ll circle back to this someday” designs. Some started with great ambition. Others were born from spontaneous chaos. A few were just… weird in a way we still love.
They are the ghosts of ideas past. And they deserve their moment.
That’s why we’re launching Pattern Graveyard—a new series where we dig up (lovingly) the patterns that never made it to the shop but brought us joy anyway.
We’re talking:
- The pigeon eating a hot dog under a lamppost
- The dogs wearing birthday hats.
- The houseplant series that died just as fast as the real plants.
- A few watercolor experiments that went completely rogue (but still kind of slap)
Each post will feature one of these forgotten designs, along with the story behind it, what we learned, and why sometimes a pattern doesn’t have to be finished—or even good—to have been worth it.
Because every project serves a purpose.
Maybe it taught us something.
Maybe it made us laugh.
Maybe it was simply a creative release in a messy moment.
And that’s enough.
Stay Tuned for the First Unearthed Oddity
Have your own half-finished gem? We’d love to hear about it. Follow us @PatternCrafters on Instagram or @Pattern_Crafters on TikTok—and tell us about it!
Let’s honor the weird, the wild, and the wonderfully unfinished—together.