King of the Jungle

[littlecope]

I grew up in Manchester, N.H. and in 2001, the city had just completed building a brand-new Arena... The Arena, had been built as the Home for the Manchester Monarchs semi-professional Hockey Team, a "farm team" for the L.A. Kings...

The Team took out a full-page ad in the Union Leader to announce their inaugural season and to invite Manchester to come and see them!

The minute I saw the Advertisement, I said, "Wow! Now THERE'S a Pattern!!"

It was, and a big one! All I had was my 18"er at that time, so it required some pretty creative cutting... Also, it has large areas of negative space and some of the cut-outs had to be taped back in place to maintain some integrity... Three were stack cut, all in plywood, a 3/16" layer and two 1/2" layers...

This was the thin one...

The Team Color was Royal Purple and I had some purple suede, so that was used to cover a backer board for the piece (the 3/16" plywood wanted to warp something awful!)

Another case of keeping your eyes open! You never know where or when a Pattern could be waiting for you!

6 December 2025

 

 

[daveww1]

nice job

[littlecope]

Thank You Dave!

[Charlie E]

I love finding accidental patterns. Nice job.