On a learning curve

I've been busy as usual trying to do my portfolio and have been meaning to learn for ages how to make my own plaid from scratch on Illustrator. I found an awesome tutorial online from a digital textile designer and its completely opened my possibilities for making any kind of check/plaid repeat pattern that I want. I can also add a weave which makes it look even more realistic. The hard part now is coming up with a final design and colour scheme that I decide looks best..this will take a while! 

Hard at work today, this is only a temporary plaid that I made for the time being but its my own from scratch..result :-)