A few years back, I was visited by the Organization Fairy. (Kicked in the shins by her is more like it.) That is the only way I can explain how I finally got in touch with my inner Project Manager and was able to move forward with planning, time-managment and goal setting.  Back then, there was paper.

I don’t think “past me”would have put something like a quilt design into the same planner which held urgent and important things like “Reminder! Patch server tonight after supper”, or “Dog to Groomer on Friday…”)

I would have dutifully separated my life into “Work” and “Quilting”, and the quilting part would never have found its rightful and important place.

But I have evolved, and so has technology, and I recently bought a Rocketbook. (Actually, a couple of them, and, in a gushy demonstration of commitment, almost every conceivable Frixion pen to go with them.)

and with this idea, the Frankenbook, which I learned on YouTube, where I learn.just.about.everything…

… I unspiraled them, combined and re-arranged, and then re-spiraled them back. This is called a Frankenbook, but I’m advocating a gentler term like “Whole Life Planner”, cobbled together from various other not-quite-what-you-had-in-mind Rocketbooks.

(If you look at my “Tools I Use” page, I’ve put a link to the Rocketbooks there.)

So I’ve got one section completely devoted to quilt design (Grid pages are perfect for this), and operations

…like keeping track of cutting, as I can count on interruptions and the premature end of what I thought would be quilting time.

I took some fabric out of the stash and made a cover for it.

I threw in some dividers, and now this book is one of my favorite things. The pages all work with the Rocketbook app, so plans, lists, calendars, everything I need to keep goes straight to my Dropbox after it is scanned and pages wipe clean with the cloth.

For the quilting operations part, my favorite part is wiping the cutting plan pages clean, while whispering “Done. Done. DONE!”

I left LOTS of pages of different types in the “Quilting Design” section.

All possibilities are open, and they are not “in the back” of my Whole Life Planner.

Where would they be in yours?

Happy Quilting Everyone!