How to make a seamless diagonal plaid pattern

Are you a surface pattern designer struggling to creating diagonal plaid patterns?

plaids are wonderful effective blender prints and are easy to add to you collection in coordinating colours!

In this free tutorial I will show you

·         how to create a diagonal stripe in adobe illustrator

·         how to change the colour of each stripe

·         how to line the stripes up

·         how to change the colours to create a plaid effect

This is a basic tutorial which just covers making a plaid. I do not cover how to save the pattern tile. If you are new to patterns you may like to check out this tutorial here  - Adobe Illustrator Pattern Preview Tool.

I would love to know of you find this tutorial helpful and what other topics you would like me to cover in upcoming free tutorials.

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