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.