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Collecting inspiration for your pattern designs

10 min • 27 april 2021

Have you ever sat down to start being creative and you've drawn a complete blank and you don't know where to start?

Finding inspiration is an important step in the design process as it will help you formulate your ideas and give yourself a direction to start developing your ideas from.

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