Meet the Artist: Julianne Haness of J Marie Creates
Julianne Haness is the Southern California illustrator and surface pattern designer behind J Marie Creates. Her distinctive work combines vintage color, tropical botanicals, beach-inspired imagery, expressive florals, and quirky animals with a polished retro-modern point of view.
Julianne earned a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing while continually filling her notebooks with drawings. She ultimately found that visual storytelling was the creative direction that suited her best.
Before moving into surface design, Julianne spent more than 20 years creating portraits and murals. She began concentrating on seamless pattern design in 2020 and has since developed a professional licensing practice spanning fabric, wallpaper, clothing, kitchen textiles, accessories, and home décor.
Her designs can be elegant, cute, playful, unexpected, and occasionally a little strange. That combination is central to the J Marie Creates identity: familiar flowers, tropical leaves, birds, fruit, and wild animals are reworked through expressive color and imaginative pattern.
Every J Marie Creates design is printed to order in the USA on your choice of 15+ base fabrics with a 1-yard minimum.
Vintage Tropical Style with a Maximalist Edge
Julianne creates original seamless patterns inspired by vintage and retro interiors, Southern California color, tropical destinations, florals, animals, and the beach.
Many J Marie Creates patterns are developed with wallpaper and large interior surfaces in mind. This encourages confident compositions, dramatic botanical scale, layered foliage, and motifs with enough personality to anchor an entire room.
That same approach translates naturally to fabric. Oversized leaves can become curtains or upholstery, tropical animals can create statement bedding and apparel, and smaller botanical or textural coordinates can support quilting, bags, linings, pillow backs, and decorative accessories.
Julianne uses Procreate and Adobe Illustrator to develop complex repeating patterns. Her artwork retains the charm of drawing and illustration while maintaining the clean repeat structure needed for professional textiles and interior products.
Color is equally important. Forest green, mint, cyan, peach, pink, mustard, burnt orange, ivory, charcoal, and pale blue give the current Textile District designs a sun-faded, vintage-tropical quality rather than the intensely saturated look often associated with conventional jungle prints.
Explore the Complete J Marie Creates Collection
Tropical Floral, Botanical, and Fruit Fabrics
Tropical Leaves
Tropical Leaves features oversized hand-drawn foliage, slender branches, detailed veining, and softly layered color. Its broad botanical scale makes it especially effective for curtains, bedding, upholstered accents, pillows, statement garments, and large accessories.
Forest creates a tonal combination of sage, gray-green, and pale blue. Pale places muted foliage against a soft peach-blush ground, while Pink offers a brighter but still polished tropical direction.
Tropical Floral
Tropical Floral combines stylized blossoms, outlined foliage, and a softly speckled background. The design has an easy allover structure that works across apparel, quilting, curtains, bedding, pillows, and cheerful home décor.
Cyan Green, Mustard, Orange, and White pair warm burnt-orange, ivory, and tan botanical forms with retro-inspired grounds.
Mangos
Mangos is a playful tropical fruit pattern featuring stylized golden fruit, patterned charcoal leaves, and clusters of graphic dots.
The design works particularly well for kitchen textiles, children’s rooms, resort apparel, curtains, tote bags, table linens, pillows, and accessories. Cyan Green, Minty, Pink, and White provide options ranging from soft and airy to bold and playful.
Wild Animals and Whimsical Tropical Creatures
Snow Leopard
Snow Leopard places illustrated big cats within dense, layered tropical foliage. Spotted markings, expressive animals, and overlapping leaves give the fabric a dramatic narrative quality.
Use it for statement curtains, upholstered chairs, bedding, pillows, jackets, bags, children’s rooms, and interiors that benefit from a sophisticated jungle theme.
Tiger Hide
Tiger Hide transforms the familiar tiger stripe into a stylized animal-print repeat. Forest, Minty, Mustard, and Pink move the design beyond traditional brown-and-black animal print into more decorative, contemporary color.
The pattern can be used as a focal print or as a graphic coordinate for upholstery, apparel, quilts, curtains, bags, pillows, and trim.
Cockatoo
Cockatoo combines tropical birds with floral and botanical detail for a playful conversational print. Forest, Minty, and Orange provide three different moods, from deep and leafy to fresh and bright.
The design is well suited to children’s and adult apparel, curtains, bedding, pillows, bags, table linens, and decorative projects that call for a recognizable animal motif.
Coordinating Botanical and Texture Fabrics
Delicate Coordinate
Delicate Coordinate uses slender leafy sprigs in a simple two-color repeat. Its smaller scale and quieter composition make it a useful companion to the collection’s larger florals, foliage, fruit, and animal designs.
Use it for quilting, bindings, pillow backs, linings, apparel, napkins, table linens, curtains, bedding, and smaller accessories. Cyan Green, Dark, Mustard, Orange, and Yellow connect easily with the broader J Marie Creates palette.
Organic Dots
Organic Dots provides a softly irregular alternative to a traditional polka dot. The hand-drawn texture adds movement while remaining simple enough to coordinate with the more detailed patterns.
Forest, Minty, Pink, and White can be used for quilt blenders, linings, bindings, apparel, children’s sewing, pillows, bags, table linens, and layered home décor.
What Makes J Marie Creates Fabrics Distinctive?
- Vintage Southern California color: Forest, mint, cyan, mustard, peach, pink, orange, ivory, and pale blue create a sun-faded retro palette.
- Maximalist composition: Layered foliage, expressive animals, and confident botanical scale give the patterns strong visual presence.
- Playful subject matter: Tropical birds, big cats, mangoes, flowers, leaves, and unusual details add personality to finished projects.
- Professional repeat construction: Julianne develops complex seamless patterns in Procreate and Adobe Illustrator.
- Interior-design awareness: Many designs are conceived with wallpaper and room-scale applications in mind, making them effective for curtains, bedding, and upholstery.
- Focal and coordinating prints: Statement animals and botanicals are supported by small leafy repeats and organic dots.
- Classy, cute, and unexpected: The collection balances polished decorative style with humor and whimsical character.
Project Inspiration for J Marie Creates Fabrics
Statement Curtains and Tropical Interiors
Use Tropical Leaves, Snow Leopard, Cockatoo, or Tropical Floral for full curtain panels, Roman shades, duvet accents, upholstered headboards, and large pillows.
Repeat the palette through Delicate Coordinate or Organic Dots on pillow backs, piping, lampshades, storage baskets, and table linens.
Apparel and Resort-Inspired Sewing
Print tropical florals, mangoes, cockatoos, tiger stripes, or leafy botanicals on lightweight cotton, cotton sateen, linen, stretch fabric, or another suitable apparel base for dresses, skirts, camp shirts, robes, jackets, swim cover-ups, and scarves.
Use the smaller coordinate patterns for linings, pockets, cuffs, collars, and accessories.
Quilts, Children’s Rooms, and Accessories
Choose Snow Leopard, Cockatoo, Mangos, or Tropical Floral as a focal fabric, then add Tiger Hide, Delicate Coordinate, and Organic Dots for blocks, borders, binding, and backing.
The same pattern combinations work across children’s bedding, playroom curtains, tote bags, zipper pouches, book sleeves, fabric baskets, and handmade gifts.
Find a J Marie Creates Fabric for Your Project
Printed to Order on Your Choice of Fabric
J Marie Creates patterns are available by the yard on 15+ base fabrics, allowing you to select the weight, texture, drape, and performance best suited to your project. Options include cottons, linens, natural-fiber blends, performance fabrics, fleece, and specialty textiles for apparel, quilting, curtains, bedding, upholstery, table linens, and accessories.
- Printed to order in the USA
- 1-yard minimum
- Tropical floral, botanical, fruit, bird, big-cat, animal-print, and texture designs
- Eight coordinated J Marie Creates patterns
- Multiple colorways available on individual product pages
- Natural-fiber fabrics are steamed, washed, and dried after printing for a soft hand and durable, colorfast results
- Detailed digital printing preserves illustrated animals, fine botanical lines, textured grounds, and hand-drawn character
How to Order
- Browse the J Marie Creates Brand page and select a pattern.
- Choose the colorway that best fits your project.
- Select the base fabric you would like us to print.
- Enter the number of yards needed and add the fabric to your cart.
Need help choosing a fabric? Compare specifications and recommended uses in Our Fabrics, order a Ground Fabric Swatch Kit, review our Frequently Asked Questions, or contact The Textile District for personalized assistance.
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J Marie Creates artwork available on The Textile District is licensed for printing and sale on this website.