To celebrate crickets — often seen as a sign of good luck and potential wealth — this week's contest challenged designers to create fabrics using a ditsy style, or scattered, small-scale repeat.
May your good fortune increase as you choose the next top ten!
Oh, I was so excited there were going to be fabrics with a cricket theme, but it’s crickets: no leather on willow then!!! Most amusing cultural confusion.
If you look closely, you’ll spy both kinds of cricket this week! But alas you are correct – we’re talking those little insects from gryllidae family.