January 7, 2022
So I had this all thought out. With you all nice and rested and ready to start on a New Year and a new project with help, resources and gobs of ideas. So I've been doing some research and culminating my experience in 50 years sewing, and then...
Right in front of my eyes not the dreaded BSOD, but almost. My program crashed and 2 weeks worth of work went kaput!
So after going through the 7 stages of grief:
1. Oh No! What just happened? It couldn't!
2. Maybe there's a backup?...Oh no I had it backing up wrong!
3. The confounded machine - why are we so dependent on these da*n effing things? Who created these monster machines anyway?
4. I'll be up all night re-writing all that information.
5. Take the dog out for a walk and come back later.
6. It's so cold out with the dog, I should have worn more coats
6a. What was I thinking out here in this cold?
6b. I must be nuts!
7. OK so I know that when I re-write this it's so much better, so just knuckle-down over the weekend and knock it out. You know where you're going and what you've written.
So I'm learning how to be gentle on myself (and trying like !Q#@$%#E^&$#W%@# to set a good example!!!  ) (Yes, that's me tearing my hair out!)
So here's what's going to happen. I'll knock this out and when it's good, I'll have another weekly email to you.
Last night was the last of the Holy Nights and I guess I need this one more than ever!!!
Happy New Year!
For the Christmas season here are a few gifts to get you started for what's coming in the New Year. You can take a look at them, and use them like you want right now, but we will really build on these resources starting the first of the year. You can also wait till the first of the year, but they are a great way to start the New Year, AND they
are free right now. The first of the year, they won't be available for free anymore.
A Croquis
Sketching is wonderful and a really great way to start is with your own figure, but how do you trace your own figure? In a mirror? Well, no. You can make what the pros call a croquis (crow-key). This is an outline of your own figure that you can use to trace different looks and styles and ideas before you make them up. I love mind and it has saved me many, many fruitless hours with some pretty ideas I thought were pretty neat at the beginning. The more I
sketched them out they didn't work out so well. But this is exactly what the pros do and what they hope to discover in working through all their design issues.
A Scoop Book - Pages in Order Form and Booklet Form
I love scoop shopping. When every I'm in a big city, the first thing I do is hit the exclusive, high-end boutiques and department stores and take notes like crazy. For that, I developed a "scoop book". In this book are very lightly printed mannequins that you can use to sketch your ideas on. Often a simple squiggle or mark can recall the exact look or idea that you were excited about. The other page is about written ideas that will help you
recall the garment or the part of the outfit that you liked.
There are two forms of this. One is with the pages in order and the other is with the pages in "booklet" form. The booklet form needs to be printed in order and on both sides flipping on the short side of the page. If that seems too complicated, use the form with the pages in order. Either one with will for you!
Well-Edited Wardrobe Ebook and Workbook (Interactive, Print-out)
I know, I can hear it now......."NOOOOOO, not the dreaded make me clean out my closet workbook!!!!!!!" Yes, that's what this is, but it's really worth it, and from where we're going to start in January, this is not only a must but makes such a fabulous way to begin what we're going to do in January. The fun thing about getting this before January is that you have plenty of time to attack this.
The Workbook is a gem and there are two formats here. One is interactive so if you want to put this on your tablet, and work with it that way, you can fill in everything in the pdf interactive version. If you simply want to print out the workbook and fill out the pages, there is this form too. You choose which one is simplest. The E-book is an explanation of how great it is to have a well-edited closet. And there are other benefits that you can start with in
January!
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