I am a quilter as well as a potter, and often the two crafts intersect. Most obviously, sometimes I use motifs found on fabrics for decoration. I also seem to echo color combinations, and repeating shapes.
This photo shows the same design that was a machine quilting sample used as a mishima decoration:
I think that machine quilting designs lend themselves particularly well to slip trailing as well.
and of course, I can't keep myself from dividing up a pot into pieces to decorate with different patterns...