Then I thought to myself How much do I really {heart} quatrefoil if I don't even have it in my blog design? I made a decision. I HAD to have a quatrefoil background. I still wanted it to be in my current color scheme, so It's not like I could just find a quatrefoil pattern online somewhere and use that. I'd have to make my own.
WARNING: It was a really tedious process since the only artsy program I had available was Microsoft Publisher. I'll show you how I did it, but you might want to come up with an easier way if you do it yourself.
I started out by making a circle, then I copied it three times and put the circles together like this:
Now I had the basic shape I needed, but what about the outline? I copied the shape, chose a lighter color and then enlarged it a little, so it looked like this:
Next I copied the entire shape and lined it up next to the original like this:
And then I copied them again:
And again, and again, and again. Finally I added a square in the background that was the same color as my original circles and voila! Quatrefoil:
This would have been the end point for most people, but I wanted a more delicate quatrefoil. So I just kept copying bigger and bigger chunks of pattern until I finally settled with this:
To be honest, I would have made the pattern even small, but copying all those circles a million times really bogged down my computer. So what do you think? Do you {heart} it as much as I do? Do you know of a better way I could have done it? Let me know if there's a program online that would have made my life easier...
