Okay. Hi guys! I'm very excited because

today we're doing our first annual project-planning video

I asked on my Instagram story

if y'all would want to see this

because it is going to have a lot of spoilers

for what I make this year.

Most of you voted yes.

And I think it would be really helpful for me because

I feel like the past few years

the projects I make...

I'm not very intentional about it.

It's like, oh, I saw this inspo photo

or, oh, I have this yarn

And then some of the larger undertakings

or more creative projects

that I am very passionate about

just kind of fall by the wayside.

I also want to be more intentional about my yarn,

because y'all have probably noticed

I just buy whatever yarn I think is pretty

and then find a way to use it later.

But there are certain projects

where I'm not gonna make it

unless I have the perfect yarn for it

So I kinda wanna identify

the gaps in my yarn stash

and make those purchases ahead of time.

And I think for you guys,

it would be fun to get more of a look

into how I find inspo and plan my projects.

Like, usually when I start a video

I already know what I'm gonna make,

but today we're just gonna

do like a live brainstorm session

so scroll through my Instagram saved

my Pineterst boards

and just start figuring out

which projects I'm most excited about.

Now if you watch my videos

you can probably guess

that I'm gonna be doing all of this

in Milanote, which is the tool I use

for pretty much all my creative project planning

I can just show you some of my

previous boards as an example.

So, this from my eazy brezzy sweater pattern

For starters, we have this mood board

where I saved a bunch of inspo

that I liked.

Then I have a materials board

This is where I put together some

color combos I liked from

my own yarn stash.

Uhh, we have a to-do list,

the pattern release timeline,

this diagram and measurements board

is just like a brain dump of all

the digital and physical sketches that I made,

measurements...

We also have a collaborative board

that I made for my pattern testers

so they were able to

jump in and put their yarn color choices

so I could visualize that.

I have some links out to google drive folders

Basically everything and anything

related to this pattern lives here.

It's just a very multi-media way

to consolidate everything.

Now, for today's purposes

I have this Project Ideas board

that I haven't populated yet.

So as we go to build out this board,

if you don't know where to start,

Milanote actually has hundreds of templates

you can choose from.