Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Premier Vision Colour trends Autumn/Winter 22/23
The red that promises to be big for summer 22 (and for Winter 21) morphs into orange for winter 22/23. Brown (long overdue) promises to replace black, grey and navy as the neutral colour of the season.
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Premier Vision Colour trends for Autumn/Winter 22/23
Orange is tipped to be the colour of the season (taking over from red the previous season). One of the features is blurred colour mixes, rather than defined edge colour blocks. An exciting theme for knitters and dyers.
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Like this quote
‘Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to keep.’
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Stitchmastery Tuesday Tip
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New Blacker Yarns shades
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Security Certificate
I decided I probably should shell out the £50 for the SSL certificate, so it will be up and working as soon as I can get it into the system. Luckily Gary is on the case so that should be soon – I could not get it to work yesterday.
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Chintz exhibition at the Fashion & Textile Museum, London
These are screenshots from an excellent webinar event on the fascinating history of Chintz fabrics. Chintz is traditional technique characterised by vibrantly coloured and highly patterned (often floral) prints. Closely woven cotton fabric is hand painted and printed with natural dyes, the designs are very detailed and very labour-intensive – e.g. wax resist printing and…
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M4 student work
(cushion design exrcise isn’t shown here as it may be used as a pattern to sell)
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M4 student work
(cushion design exercise isn’t shown here)
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I (intentionally) haven’t renewed the extra security certificate
I decided I could do much better things with £50 for 7 months of cover! I noticed that many well known websites and blogs don’t use them. Also I pay £100 per year to have the blog backed up each week, so the content is stored safely. So please don’t worry about the scary sounding…
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