![]() ![]() I have boards for patterns and for fabric, as well as some other things (like household appliances and kids’ artwork). Check out the photos below to see how to do this in the app. To get started, you’ll have to make a Trello account and create your boards. You can organize your lists however you like. In this case, the card is your fabric or your pattern. The vocabulary: Trello has boards (think of them like an organizational binder) that have lists (think of them like dividers within the binder) that have cards (think of them like a single item within the binder).There are paid upgrades that you can get, too. And I hope I get a few more people on Team Raindrop.A few months ago, someone in a sewing Facebook group recommended Trello to me, and I don’t think even that person realized how amazingly useful it is for sewing! Here’s how I use Trello to organize my patterns AND my fabric. I hope this helps others who love to plan almost (or more) than they love to make. You can even share your collections with other people, and they can also search via tag (they don’t have to be signed up to Raindrop to view the board). This will show spring/ summer dresses that you’ve already made. When you scroll to the end of your list, it also shows ‘Found in other collections’. you can search by tags in all views except Moodboard). This will bring up any dress that I might want to make, that would be suitable for warm weather. In the screenshot below, you can see that I’ve gone into my wishlist collection, and searched for images tagged with s/s and dress. They really come into their own when you want to search for a particular garment. At the moment it’s full of colour block dresses so I can see a range of seamlines for these dressesīack to tags. If I do make something on my wishlist, then I drag the card to ‘made it’ I’m not trying to make everything on this list though. ‘wishlist’ – any pattern that I might make, one day.‘made it’ – any pattern I’ve sewn, tagged with the year completed. ![]() You organise your links into ‘ collections‘ (similar to Trello boards). I could also add S/S (spring/ summer) and A/W (Autumn/ Winter) tags, as this pattern has short and long sleeve options. In this example, I’ve added the Lark Tee to the Made It collection/ folder (as I’ve already made it!) For tags, I’ve added 2018 (the year I made it) and top (garment type). Then you can click the button whenever you see a pattern you want to add. To add to your board, you’ll need to install the raindrop extension which will give you a button on your internet browser (circled in yellow in the screenshot below). Have a look at the links I’ve chosen on the board below. Trello does something similar, but I think Raindrops suits my needs better. My favourite feature is the ability to tag my links. Like Trello, you can manually move the cards around to the order you like (e.g.the order you want to make them in). There are a few different options for viewing your weblinks, but you’ll probably want to view them as cards or a moodboard if you have bookmarked sewing patterns. So onto my new darling, the visual bookmarking system Raindrop.io. ![]() Possibly because of these reasons, I usually forget to visit my boards after I’ve created them! The second drawback is that it’s a bit cumbersome to add images to a board. After that you need to scroll through each individual list to see the images. The first is that you are limited to about ten images on the screen at a time. In my opinion Trello is brilliant with text, but has some drawbacks when all your cards are images. Helen’s Closet has written a really good guide to using Trello to organise your sewing. It also contains lots of other cool features like being able to filter cards, add a checklist, due date or notes. So it makes it ideal to track a sewing project. It’s very easy to drag cards from one list to another, or change the order. With Trello, you can add text ‘cards’ or images to lists within each board. So let’s move on and look at one of my sewing Trello boards. Unfortunately, this is about the limit to what you can do with Pinterest when organising your makes. ![]()
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