80s Retro roller skate patterns

I’ve been steadily making a bunch of new patterns over this year. I took a hiatus when we went on vacation in August, but I’m finally posting some designs now at the end of year! This collection is a bold, colourful pattern with rainbow roller skates, walkman, headphones and cassette tapes. I very vaguely remember going to The Terrace, a roller skating rink in downtown Toronto with my uncle. It must’ve been some time in the early to mid 80s as I looked up that the Terrace closed its doors in 1989. The building was converted to a curling and roller skating rink in 1962. Previously, it was a skating rink called The Arena where the Leafs (Toronto’s NHL hockey team) used to play. It’s kind of neat that I went to a piece of Toronto history! In the 90s, I had a trusty walkman and lots of mixed tapes that me or friends carefully put together. Although everyone moved on to CDs, but I remember I still took this small walkman (that our dad’s friend bought for us from Hong Kong) to university and always listened to music while I was in the art studio. What a long ago analogue world that was…

Here’s a the roller skate pattern in olive green, purple and turquoise:

And here are some secondary and blender patterns to go with the roller skate pattern. All patterns can be found on my Spoonflower shop in this collection.