Sewing Room Organization Tips: Index Cards
Leah RybakDescription
Leah Rybak presents a fun and easy tip to help you stay organized. See how helpful this tip can be for remembering unique ideas for the future as well as remembering what gifts you have given to friends or family in the past. Find out how organized you can be with index cards.
Do you make a lot of homemade gifts for your friends and family? I sure do, and if you do, you probably have a hard time remembering who you gave what or when you gave them what, and how exactly that all went down. Well, a great tip that I can give you is to use an index file to organize all of your gifts that you've given. I kind of have it organized in order of person. As you can see, I have Mom, Dad, my brother Chris, and a couple other people in here, so that I know who got what for what holiday. And also what I like to do is keep some fabric samples of things that they might like in there as well. So for example, my mom, she loves blue. It's her favorite color, and she also loves paisley prints, and all sorts of fun stuff like that. So what I did is I kept these nice little fabric images for her, for an example of what to give her in the future. Also, I have little note cards that say, you know, what gift I gave her and when. So for example, Christmas hasn't come around quite yet this year, but when it does, I'll write an example of the gift that I give her. Last year for Christmas, I gave her a stocking, a homemade stocking with her initials on it. So this way I know, in the next 5, 10 years not to make her another stocking with her initials on it. For her birthday, I made her a nice light blue sheer blouse. Of course, that's her favorite color, and moving forward, I'll know not to make her the same thing again. Also what I like to do, since I have so many family members and friends that I like to make sewing gifts for, I keep track of their favorite colors, their favorite prints, and their dislikes in general. So for example, like I said, my mom loves the color blue. She also likes greens as you can see in this nice print. Also, she likes florals, paisleys, all sorts of kind of girly fabrics like that. And what she really dislikes is animal prints. So I have these on my handy-dandy note cards, just kind of all ready to go. Another thing that I have in my sewing file is a cutout from a magazine of a project that I thought would be a good idea to make for my mom. And what I did is I just ripped it out of the magazine, folded it up and got it all ready to go in my sewing file so that I know moving forward that I can make this project for her in the future. And I hope that you guys enjoyed this tip. It's just some index file organization, keep track of everything that you make for your friends and family.
Another good idea (if you make people clothing) would be to write down their sizing and measurements!
If you are tech inclined you could do the same thing with a digital organizer like Microsoft One Note. You would need to take a picture of your swatches with a smart phone.
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Another helpful hint would be to put pictures of the projects that were made inside the file as well. Then if someone sees the project and likes it you can do the same one with different fabric.
Wonderful tips Leah!