Keeping up with sharing my love for office supplies, I'm going to show you my knitting binder today. This is a little book I put together using an old 3 ring planner. I hope you enjoy it!
In the front of the binder I have a small clip board held in place by cutesy rubber bands. This way, if I need to take a pattern out && really study it or mark on it, I can use the clip board. The front sleeve on the right is just a hello kitty montage from a previous planner that I inserted because... I wanted to!
Behind the clip board is a zipper pocket. Inside the zipper pocket I store some extra stitch markers, a yarn needle, a small pair of scissors, && a gauge ruler. This way I have several things on hand for on the go knitting.
Behind the hello kitty montage in the front of the binder, I have a Maggie Smith meme about knitting because... I wanted to! Then I have some hello kitty paper for notes, stitch counting, row counting, etc. Anything that I may need to write down.
I use planner size tabbed dividers to section off the binder. The first section is for "references". I keep knitting needle size info, metric conversions, yarn types && info, abbreviations, etc. Most of this information I ripped out of my beginner's guide to knitting book. I three hole punched it && added it in.
The next section is for "current" projects. I have patterns && notes on my current projects in here. As you can see above, there's the pattern to the Christmas trees I'm working on. The note to the left is a list of Christmas gifts I'm knitting [not showing the list aha]
"Up Next" is after current projects. This is where I keep patterns of projects I want to work on next. This way I easily have the patterns on hand for yarn shopping.
The next section is "inventory". I keep a list of the needles that I own, so if I'm out and about, I don't buy duplicates. Then I also have yarn swatches. I took the wrapping off the yarn && washi taped a piece of the yarn to the wrapper. 3 hole punched that && added it in. This lets me know what I have on hand, and helps when buying more yarn.
The final section is for "completed" projects. I WILL keep pictures of finished projects && their corresponding pattern in this section. Right now I have a couple completed Christmas trees in it, so that when I go to buy embellishments I have the actual tree with me.
That's pretty much it! <3
How do you organize your knitting projects?
Great idea! I wrote a comment but apparently it didn't post. So here is another one. Thanks for posting; I will definitely have to organize my knitting life like this. I love the Hello Kitty and Maggie Smith additions.
ReplyDeleteThanks!! <333 I love any excuse to break out the fun office supplies aha!
DeleteI have around and around about how to organize my quilt patterns, project ideas, etc. and have never found anything I was 100% happy with. You're inspiring me to give it another go, though. It would be helpful to have small fabric squares for projects where I need something to finish it out, to have with me while I'm out.
ReplyDeleteIt has been incredibly helpful for me when I'm out && about. I'm new so I'm still building my needle collection. It helps me know what I have purchased, and what I need to purchase for my upcoming projects. It was so easy to put together. Try it!
DeleteThank you so much for sharing. I can totally tell that being efficient and organized is key for you and that is something I admire tremendously! You have inspired me to get one of these started for me.
ReplyDeleteYay! I hope it helps you! It really is so simple and easy to put together. Good luck! <333
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