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June 28, 2019
Well, that was a lot of fun. I think I'm going to torture my techs as we had a whole passel of tech issues on some of the resources that I talked about last week. If you have any problems with any of the resources in the Resource Library, please email me back (you can simply hit respond to this email and I'll get it), and let me know cause I really do want to make this as simple as possible.
That said, I'm not daunted and will be loading up more resources as I finish them. This week I'm away from my desk and doing some all important scoop shopping. What is that? I'm out and about getting more fashion ideas, looking at more resources and basically looking for better and fresher and more inspirations for us to use.
When I do this, it's really difficult to remember everything. As a matter it's impossible. Some places it's hard to do this, but what helps is writing it all down. And that often includes a sketch or two - a picture is worth a thousand words and all that. And you say, well Claire, I can't sketch at all. Here's a deep dark secret - most professional designers can't sketch, but they can represent with a few lines what they want and what
they envision, and the same is true of you. Taking notes sometimes often refers to simply a silhouette with "a ruffle" pointed here. That's all it takes to bring the image back to your mind. It's the notes that count to bring an image back to your mind, not the whole drawing of the whole thing. All you're trying to do here is record enough to remind you of what you saw or what you liked not draw the whole image. You actually
don't need to draw the whole image to bring it back to memory.
I have a wonderful resource in the Library for this, and it's remarkably easy to use. I designed it to be very intuitive because I didn't want to have to sit down and draw out a whole bunch of stuff - just a part, or an idea here or there. In the book, you can make it a collar treatment, or a cuff, or a skirt hem, anything. There's a little faint croquis on each page so you can have something to sketch to and then a brief description in words. You
don't have to use both, and you can use both - what ever makes you feel comfortable. Then later refer to it when the blank hits your mind, and voila - not only have you remembered what you saw that you liked, the muse is instantly there to help - and it's in a good way - I promise!
This weekend it's free for the weekend (I think my techs are taking advantage that I'm not around). It's on a timer, so I can't change it so 12 midnight Sunday it's over. Hop over there and pick it up for free, and with the instructions included, you can see how to scoop shop.
I'll have some examples on my Instagram account the from this week's adventures in scoop shopping! So be sure and check out my @SewingArtistry Instagram as I will have been out scrounging around for some cool things all last week! Check out #scoopshopping on Instagram as I'll have lots of goodies to inspire you!
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