I'm totally a beginner when it comes to planners and bullet journaling when trying it by myself. Of course, I've been scrolling Pinterest and found some nice free planner printables for sewing. The only problem I had with those was that most of them were project-based planners: the pages were about certain projects and planning a sewing project.
But my problem is the excessive amount of different ideas and project marathons that I want to do, with some of that project stuff also included.
For my planner I bought an A5 planner from a nearby supermarket, it was on SALE and has a pocket in the back for storing pieces of sample fabrics. The pages are dotted, not lined and I kinda like a dotted version of pages for this type of planning.
So I sat down with some blank paper and wrote down different ideas I wanted in my planner and these are some of the ideas I had:
1) I wanted to include a shopping list, for both immediate needs and if there is something I need in my stash that can wait for a sale. Normally I just snap a picture of the pattern I'm making or have a list in my head that I absolutely need for my projects, but making a list and taking sample pieces to fabric store might be easier.
2)Some sort of way to organize my ideas and progress them from a general idea to a finished project. So I decided to include different stages of the projects: from a website/Pinterest idea/just a thought to the list of serious consideration of making a project to an idea log and then to a project page. I'll post about my project pages later when I've finished something to show the basic idea of how I try to keep up with my ideas.
3) Some sort of a trackerEvery bullet journal needs a tracker, I guess, but I don't have the habit of sewing daily. I do sewing for a few weeks and then I might have a longer pause and do some knitting instead for a longer period of time. So I had to do a craft tracker, where I track most of the crafts I do. Using different colors for different gives an idea about what I've been doing the past month.
If you look carefully I messed up the lines for this year's tracker, they should have been 1x2 not 1x1 squares, though it is actually better if I do different things in a day.
3) Wishlist
Not exactly a shopping list, but a list about stuff that would be nice to have: stuff that is not exactly needed, but would probably make life easier, stuff that I consider too expensive to buy (but would welcome gladly as a birthday present)
5) Machines
This summer I realized I hadn't taken my serger to a service (like ever) and my serger, that I use almost regularly, so I figure I needed some sort of a place to record the dates of service and also the cost of those. I wrote down the model number and the year I bought my machines down, so next time I call to book a time for a service I have this information at one glance.
6) GoalsI don't know about others, but I still have many different techniques to learn and skills I want to acquire. So for my Sewing planner, I wanted to add a couple of pages for a place to write my different goals down. I color-coded with to colors: one for skills and the other for techniques.
Then I have pages reserved for gift ideas, blogging, orders/requests, and different websites for ideas. I could, of course, use some sort of google docs for the websites with direct links, that probably would be easier. It would be nice to know how to draw or do some doodling on the lines, but my drawing skills need some working on.
So this is my setup for a sewing planner and now I just have to try to use it. I hope this gives you some new ideas for your own planners too :)
And now I'm going back to sew some linen-viscose trousers.
