{"id":11850,"date":"2014-02-18T13:28:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T02:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/buddies-wp\/?p=11850"},"modified":"2017-02-06T21:48:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T10:48:30","slug":"quilting-or-sewing-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/quilting-or-sewing-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make A Quilting Or Sewing Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Quilting or\u00a0Sewing Diary or Memory\u00a0book to last a lifetime<\/h2>\n<p>One of my biggest regrets is that I have not kept a detailed quilting or\u00a0sewing diary of every quilt or major sewing project I have done over my lifetime. \u00a0Not only do you get to look back and remember who you made the quilt or sewing project for, and how patterns, materials and textures and trends have changed over the years, but it gives valuable details about how you actually did it, and how you have grown in techniques over the years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/A5-Hardcover-Spiral-Notebooks.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11864 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/A5-Hardcover-Spiral-Notebooks-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"Quilting or Sewing Diary\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>If you are\u00a0beginning a Quilting or Sewing Diary of a quilt or project you were making for your son&#8217;s or daughters wedding, or a wedding dress some-one special to you will wear, you may wish to make that diary itself really special, it can also be in a simple spiral bound notebook and be just as effective, \u00a0we are able structure our diaries to reflect who we are as quilters and sewers. We can let our artistic flair take over, or we can make it a straight forward account of the processes we took to get to the finished product. And both are perfect.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Choose<\/strong><\/span> your diary make sure it is large enough to take at lease a standard 6&#8243; x 4&#8243; photograph<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Scan or take a photo<\/strong><\/span> of your pattern if you are using one, and paste it onto the 1st page of the diary (If you are building your quilt or sewing project from scratch, leave enough room on the first page to place of photo of the finished item)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Make a note of who the project is for<\/strong><\/span>, and if it is for a special occasion on the first page and most importantly don&#8217;t forget to place the date on your first page. \u00a0<strong>Your Quilting or Sewing Diary has now officially begun<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12315 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/quilting-fabric1-web-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Beautiful Fabrics\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/quilting-fabric1-web-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/quilting-fabric1-web.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Take a photo of your fabrics<\/strong><\/span> before you begin to cut, and use off-cuts of your fabrics and place them into the first few pages of the Quilting or Sewing Diary, along with your personal notes as to what colours and types of fabrics you have chosen and why<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>If you are a quilter<\/strong><\/span> that uses the dining room table as a &#8220;this goes with that&#8221; when choosing what colours go where, take photo&#8217;s as you start laying out. If you are a quilter who pins your fabrics to a cork board in your sewing room, take photo&#8217;s through the process of choosing your final fabric placements<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Write dates at the top of each page<\/strong><\/span> as your diary grows with your quilt or project<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/light-bulb-over-head.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11860\" src=\"http:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/light-bulb-over-head.jpg\" alt=\"Light Bulb Over Head Moments\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/light-bulb-over-head-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/light-bulb-over-head.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>Make notes about each stage of your quilt or project<\/strong><\/span>, good and bad, if the flying geese gave you a massive headache one day, write it down, but also make notes about those amazing break through you made. \u00a0i.e. when the \u00a0light bulb flashes above your head \u00a0&#8220;YES&#8221;, that will work and it does<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>If you draw or sketch<\/strong><\/span>, draw and sketch to your hearts content, little triangles with arrows, exclamation marks if it&#8217;s warranted<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>If you don&#8217;t draw or sketch<\/strong><\/span>, photographs, photographs and more photographs. \u00a0They can be printed on plain paper if you choose, this is not about winning a photography competition, it is about Us as quilters and sewers. \u00a0(Although I am sure you will find, by the end of the Quilting or Sewing Diary, your photography skills will have improved dramatically\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Document your ups and your downs<\/strong><\/span>, because our quilts and our sewing projects are about us also, not just about who they are for and why. Often we forget just how important what we do is for us<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Take images of your completed project<\/strong><\/span>, give them pride of place on the last pages of your quilting or diary<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Never criticise your finished<\/strong><strong> product<\/strong><\/span> in your Quilting or Sewing Diary, too often we forget the we are talented and very special, what we do is unique and a project finished is a project well done, and we deserve to proud of it. Sure we can and most of us do, go over the final product with a fine tooth comb, and we have conversations with ourselves about what we would do differently, and how we could improve this or that. \u00a0But that is for the next project, not a distraction from this project.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Do NOT give your Quilting or Sewing Diary to the person who is receiving the quilt or sewing project.<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0This diary is about us for us, something to treasure and look back on and learn from, the person receiving this special gift, will have the finished item, to hold and remember with, they do not need our Quilting or Sewing Diary as well<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #bc006e;\"><strong>And last but by no means least, take a final photograph<\/strong><\/span>, have it printed and laminated, and place it on the front of your quilting and sewing diary, and secure well. \u00a0This Quilting or Sewing Diary with any luck will get lots of opening and enjoying, just like any great book should.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you do a Quilting or Sewing Diary, please let me know how you do yours, and if they get lots of use afterwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quilting or\u00a0Sewing Diary or Memory\u00a0book to last a lifetime One of my biggest regrets is that I have not kept a detailed quilting or\u00a0sewing diary of every quilt or major sewing project I have done over my lifetime. \u00a0Not only do you get to look back and remember who you made the quilt or sewing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,43,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11850"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18044,"href":"https:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850\/revisions\/18044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewingbuddies.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}