{"id":4655,"date":"2021-09-03T18:54:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T16:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secret-times.it\/how-to-catalog-and-organize-fabric-samples\/"},"modified":"2023-01-27T17:18:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:18:59","slug":"how-to-catalog-and-organize-fabric-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-times.it\/en\/how-to-catalog-and-organize-fabric-samples\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Catalog and Organize Fabric Samples"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In this article you will find out how to catalog and organize your fabric samples, download the free PDF and catalog your fabrics.<\/p>\r\n

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Why catalog fabric samples and materials in general<\/h2>\r\n\r\n

Whether you are a seamstress or experienced creative manufacturing on commission or simply sewing is a hobby of yours, I suggest you create an inventory of all your materials. The sooner you start doing it, the better. In the beginning, everything I created was my own experiment and I didn’t care to record the price of the material, how much I had used or where I had bought it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

As time went by, however, it happened more and more often that I needed this information. Maybe I needed that particular fabric to do a repair, but I didn’t remember where I bought it. A friend asked me to replicate a creation for her and offered to pay for the materials, but we did not remember how much I had paid them. Surely it will have happened to you too, until one day we decide to put our creations on sale and we are forced to catalog all the materials we have accumulated over years of compulsive purchases, without remembering where or how much we bought them. So here’s my first tip:<\/p>\r\n

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Start cataloging all your materials right away, even if you are sewing just for you and your family.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

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My First Attempts at cataloguing<\/h2>\r\n

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My first attempts at cataloging consisted of small notebooks where for each project I indicated approximately the materials used and how much they had cost me, attaching in the most fortunate cases a tiny sample of fabric or trimmings or a receipt. Even today, sadly, I am left with a lot of materials with no provenance, price or use due to this rough method.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

My First Inventory<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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One day, caught in one of my compulsive cataloging fits (I’m mostly a messy person), I started taking an inventory of all my materials. In reality it was not a real inventory, since I did not indicate the quantity I had of each material, but, through a Numbers sheet (Mac program equal to Exel), I gave each material a code and I indicated the main characteristics .<\/p>\r\n

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