How do you organise your design collection?
I have a confession to make. My design collection is chaos.
I have folders inside folders inside folders. I have files called “new folder (3)” and “alphabet final FINAL”. I have the same design saved in five places, because I couldn’t find it the first four times. I even have an embroidery deduper that’s meant to sort all this out, and I can’t find that on my computer either!
So I’m hoping some of you are more organised than me and willing to share your secrets.
Do you sort by theme, by designer, by format, or by date?
Do you keep everything on your computer, or on a USB or external drive?
Do you rename files, or leave them as they come?
Do you use any software to keep track of it all?
And be honest, how many designs do you think you have?
Tell me your system, or tell me your chaos. Either way I’ll feel better!
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My son's wedding was beautiful, I don't have a lot of pictures yet, I wanted to get more flowers around the bottom of her veil, but I got the hem up the sleeves added and hand washed and ironed, I got his jacket sleeves taken up, but had to take up at the shoulder and the placket because it needed 10cm (4 inches) off. Now I am properly sick and need to rest for a few days. I will get another alphabet up as soon as possible.
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Oh WOW Alice, what a beautiful couple! The bride looks gorgeous - her dress & veil is perfect plus your son looks so handsome in his suit! You did a wonderful job and now you need to take care of yourself, rest and not worry about us / alpha's etc! We are not going anywhere and YOUR health is the TOP priority at this point in time!! Sending HUGS to you and thank you for sharing! -
I agree with Sandie. Take care of yourself. -
Beautiful couple!! Self care is important, time for a rest Alice. -
It's nice that you got some of the embroidery on. It looks beautiful. Take care! -
Your son and his bride are lovely, and her dress and veil are absolutely spectacular! Thank you for sharing the picture of their special bridal picture. The background for their is awesome/1
I guess you are still out and no letters or numbers yet. Hope you are doing fine. Your daughter's short look great.
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Hi Sandra, last week was hectic with my sons wedding and the alterations I had to do for his whole family, on top of that I got really sick, I have not been that sick for years, and I got my flu shot. I am trying to take it easy but I am slowly catching up, hopefully I will have an alphabet soon.
My nine year old granddaughter Zahalia, making her first pair of shorts, including pockets. I did the cutting.
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Tell Zahalia she did a great job, to keep the good work up!
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Zahalia did an awesome job with pockets no less on her super cute shorts!! They are adorable! Looks like she knows her way around a sewing machine!
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Zahalia has undiagnosed ADHD, the divergence is strong in our family. I had to really encourage her to take her time and keep her seems straight. She was very patient most of the time, and she was thrilled with the end result, it was some farm animal blocks that I got from temu, she stitched the squares together, then I cut the pattern and she sewed the shorts. She had only done straight bags before that.
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great job! i'm spending the afternoon today with my niece changing a jacket she bought to a shorter model. really nice to spend time sewing together with the younger generation this way!-
Yes it is great to pass on those skills, and I am able to teach her how to do things properly and not rush. It took me decades to learn that.
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Zahalia did a fantastic job making those super cute shorts, something I cannot even do! Congratulations!xx
Thank you Alice for all of the cute new letters!
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Thanks Gail, I am pleased you like them.
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I cant believe another set of alphabets is nearly finished. Time sure flies. Thank you always Alice
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I know Diane, it is crazy, and I have not done the next one yet, too many other bright shiny objects distracting me.
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Personally I have folders with genres. When I download I add tags to the name then organize by genre. However, I used to use a word document and put information about each design in it and it was easy to search but that was a long time ago. Now my problem is changing computers and not having all the files in one place. I put them in DropBox but the old computer had an issue and didn't up load them all. I'm currently in a mess with using the new computer (desktop is synced to old computer) and filing on the old computer. It's not sustainable and I need to fix it.