GAME CHANGER. When I started documenting my experiments, I did so on tiny hang tags. I moved too fast to really document shit. But eventually I HAD to do it so I didn’t reinvent the wheel with every experiment.

Tiny hang tag schematics turned into half-page made-up shorthand. I told myself, write as if you’re explaining it to someone who doesn’t know.. but in shorthand. More and more I documented my process, eventually to the point that I began to write a new pattern for every garment I made, regardless of the “master” pattern, so I could innovate and change directions.

My documenting has slowly evolved since 2016. I now have a fairly strict “style guide” for explaining to my future self what my former self was doing.

Here comes the game changer, 2022. A MINI PRINTER. Holy fucking Vishnu. No longer do I have to comb through my patterns scanning shorthand, I have a fucking photo for EVERY garment.

I’m trying a few different printers with quite different results, but even the worst prints are better than NO prints.