As helpful as my blog journal is for recording information, my notebooks are truly invaluable. I love having books of relevant notes and accompanying samples. Looking back at some of the online workshops I participated in, I wish I'd made more notebooks. I wish I'd done a better job of making copies of the lessons and discussions.
My current 4-shaft crackle sampler notebook catalogs the various manners of weaving crackle and will help me with future project planning. It's lovely to have a collection of real samples and how-to notes available.
It's a bit tedious to run off copies of the blog posts. I only need the text to accompany the live sample, but to get it seems to require a two-step copy and paste. Once off the blog to a text editor. Then from the text editor to LibreOffice, where I can turn it into a PDF to print out. I don't have a printer, so I do these when I make a regularly scheduled trip to the library.
The reason for the intermediary step of copying to the text editor is to remove all the hidden formatting code in the copied text.
It's been a somewhat slow project, but it's giving me a chance to figure out what I want to do next.
2 comments:
Good weaving records are worth their weight in gold. Good work!
Valerie, so true. If I hadn't kept records on as much as I did, I'm be completely back to weaving Square One!
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