Showing posts with label catching up. Show all posts
Showing posts with label catching up. Show all posts

Friday, 14 June 2013

Catching Up

I'm slowly catching up on some work - gradually replying to emails from the past week, sending out all my shop orders, and writing some blog posts with "help" from this little lady!


I'm also working on a whole bunch of tutorials (for a couple of projects I, alas, can't talk about yet). I find it helpful when I'm working on lots of tutorials at once to make a chart instead of writing lots of to do lists. It works pretty well even if the tutorials are all for very different things as they all involve the same basic steps to get from idea to finished tutorial. Ticking each small task off as I work through them I can see the progress I'm making and can see at a glance what tasks still need doing. 

This is my current chart. Lots done, but quite a bit still to do! 


I made a gigantic "to do chart" when I was working on my new book and it really helped keep me organised during a very hectic time.


For each design I worked on I needed to sketch it, design the templates, (maybe) sew a prototype, write notes on how to make it, sew it, take step by step photos, edit the photos, resize and label the photos, take final reference photos of the finished piece, type up my notes, draft the tutorial, proofread it, make final changes, draw the templates out neatly, make copies of the templates, pack up the project, and then post the project & templates and email the tutorial & accompanying photos. 

Multiply that by all the different projects that make up a book and, well, you can see why the chart was so useful! :)

Friday, 14 December 2012

Deadlines, and Catching Up

I've had a whole load of different deadlines recently, which is always a bit tricky to juggle with running my shops but especially so at this time of year! While I've been focused on meeting them, I have to admit that I've fallen a little bit behind with a few day-to-day things.

My studio is a huge mess with crafty chaos covering every available surface. I've fallen way behind with my sky blanket squares. I've had to borrow some socks from my mother because I'm so behind on laundry that I've run out of clean pairs. And I am weeks behind with responding to comments here on my blog - sorry folks!

Now my 2012 deadlines have all been met (hurrah!) I'm looking forward to catching up with all these things over the next week or so, just in time to put my feet up a bit over Christmas :)

P.S. Because it feels weird to have a blog post without a photo, here's a quick snap of a corner of my desk this morning. Mmm... lovely graph paper...