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Making future me happy
Apr. 9th, 2022 06:42 amFinally got the cupboard that will hold fabric cleaned out of the last of the previous owner's stuff yesterday and started unpacking fabric. I already had a fair bit of my fabric inventoried on Trello, with a card for each and notes ast to colour, fibre, weave, when/where aquired cost, etc (if known), so I did the same for Keldor's fabric as I unpacked it and refolded it to fit well in the cupboard, looking forward to getting to mine, which already had cards.
However, it turns out that I had never inventoried a fair bit of our fabric--only the ones that were owned by me and me alone, and when David and I split the fabric we had purchaced together I got a fair bit of fabric still needing to be inventoried, which incrrases the scope of the project.
But my future self will appreciate being able to just look in the phone to see how much of that one fabric I have, so it is worth doing.
But then as I measure all of this and try to give it all unique names, I wonder if I will be able to tell if this one is the navy blue or the midnight blue later, without measuring to compare with the orginal measurements.
Labeling is an obvious answer, but my handwriting is best avoided. Hooking up a printer is bothersome, as is typing into the label maker.
Therefore I took a bit of time clipping words from the newspaper is a reasonable size font and covering them with tape. Now those labeles are being added to the fabric and to the trello cards in parentheses. My future self will thank me when I can quickly match fabric to trello card.
However, it turns out that I had never inventoried a fair bit of our fabric--only the ones that were owned by me and me alone, and when David and I split the fabric we had purchaced together I got a fair bit of fabric still needing to be inventoried, which incrrases the scope of the project.
But my future self will appreciate being able to just look in the phone to see how much of that one fabric I have, so it is worth doing.
But then as I measure all of this and try to give it all unique names, I wonder if I will be able to tell if this one is the navy blue or the midnight blue later, without measuring to compare with the orginal measurements.
Labeling is an obvious answer, but my handwriting is best avoided. Hooking up a printer is bothersome, as is typing into the label maker.
Therefore I took a bit of time clipping words from the newspaper is a reasonable size font and covering them with tape. Now those labeles are being added to the fabric and to the trello cards in parentheses. My future self will thank me when I can quickly match fabric to trello card.