Quilting Planner
 

Does anyone use these and if so find a planner helpful? Also if you use one which one do you use?
Thanks

I was just wondering the same as Joan - I currently don't use one and have a "timeline/planner" in my head . LOL maybe I should use one so that I stay on track with my current projects and possibly get more accomplished! :)

I always wish I had a planner that designed, kept the patterns I used, held a photo and information and who I gave/sold t he quilt to. I also wanted dates I started and completed a quilt. In other words everything about a quilt that I made.
In the early years I kept a note book and as time progressed I got sloppy and hopefully just remembered to photograph the quilts. Now I wish I had a planner that would let me fill in all the blanks I could.

If there is one out here I am so interested. What are you using if any, at this time? This is a thread I will be closely following
Sometime during the summer I picked up, from a thread here I think, a sample for a digital planner. Here is the link to the home page. Her planner from the sample I have looks to be the most promising. The Cost is a bit high IMHO but considering what I have to go back and do it is looking pretty good to me. Here is the link https://www.patchworkplanner.com .Let me know what you think of it.

google "free download quilt planner" - there are so many out there!

You can also google quilting planner for ones to buy. I looked for free ones but didn’t see any that looked good. Maybe I need to look again.

i checked the planner out and liked it. The price wasn’t bad, but it is out of stock. I will text the site to find out if there will be more.

I got this one from Amazon. I've just started quilting so I think it will be pretty easy to fill it out up to now. I haven't started filling it out yet but it has two pages/quilt. One that has the details of date started, ended; pattern, designer/source, who it's for and notes. It also has a grid section on the bottom of that page where you could do a quick design. The facing page is labelled for photos and swatches. There are some black pages at the back for whatever you want.

https://www.amazon.ca/Quilting-Journ...37754995&psc=1

Patchwork Posse also has a set of planning pages to download for free.

https://www.patchworkposse.com/16-da...er-printables/

that looks like a good price.

I've always like the idea of a planner, but never found one that suits me without lots of wasted space.

I finally took some time and made a quilting journal/planner in Microsoft Excel that has everything i need, and I can put pictures in it from my cell phone. That was one of the things I really needed since I take lots of pics. I never figured out a good way to get pics in a physical planner.

I don't use one but I do improvise and make one of my own. I use a small Mead, Cambridge Business notebook that's 9 1/2 x 5 3/8 with 80 sheets. The front of each page is lined like notebook paper and the back has quarter inch grid on it. It's perfect for notes, planning and keeping a list of projects. I have even made a reusable quilted cover for it to make it easy to take to meetings.

I downloaded a free one on my iPad called Quiltful. You can load your project, add pictures and check off your completed task on each quilt. Have only done one quilt so far, but it looks pretty nice and it’s free. It’s on Apple and Google Play from what I can see.

That's the one that I downloaded not too long ago and printed off. So far, it's doing a great job keeping me organized with my future quilt designs and it's loaded down with a lot of goodies that I think will help me in the long run. The biggest goodie for me are the fabric tags, I used to just take the information from the selvage edge and cut that off and put it in a file folder, but that jumped up and bit me not too long ago and I may have to completely scrap a quilt I was working on because I can't find the fabric anywhere. Having the fabric tags, it'll actually force me to use them and will save a lot of heartache in the future.

I did have one a while back but it just wasn't quite what I was looking for, so I took the best from that and the best from Patchwork Posse and meshed the two together. Everyone is going to have different organizational ideas, so don't restrict yourself to what you find. Meshing organizers together will definitely help in the long run, it's helped me out quite a bit.