Making patterns!

I was sitting in the studio on thursday and decided to teach myself how to make patterns in illustrator. Surprisingly, the help in illustrator was helpful. It turns out that making a pattern is pretty easy. Basically, you create your pattern and then drag it into the swatches so that it becomes a fill option. Then you make the shape that you want to be patterned and fill it with the pattern swatch you just created.
Here are a few that I was experimenting with...