#documentyourwork

Hey fellow pattern people! 💕

So we just had one of those "why didn't we start this sooner?!" moments in our studio last week. After losing track of how we created that one perfect botanical motif (you know, the one everyone keeps asking about), we finally got serious about documenting our design process.

We're definitely not experts at this—just fellow artists figuring things out alongside you—but we thought we'd share what we've been learning about documentation because OH MY GOODNESS it's making such a difference!

What we've been trying:

Setting up our phones on cheap tripods to record time-lapses (not perfect lighting but who cares!)

Taking screenshots whenever we make a major design decision (future us says thank you)

Creating super simple project templates that don't feel overwhelming

Actually writing down our color codes instead of just... hoping we'll remember them? (lol why did we do this to ourselves)

The whole social media growth thing as artists can be SO draining sometimes. We're constantly creating new content, but then struggling to remember how we actually made the things people love most! It's like this weird cycle where the pressure to post makes us skip the documentation that would actually make posting easier?

We're finding that having even basic documentation is giving us SO much more to share. Those process videos? People are actually more into them than our finished work sometimes! Who knew our messy middle would be the content gold mine we needed?

This isn't about having a perfect system—none of us have time for that. It's about building tiny documentation habits that save future-us from wanting to throw our tablets out the window when a client asks "can you just tweak that pattern from last season?"

If you've found cool ways to track your design process that don't feel like extra work, please share! We're all figuring this out together, and honestly, it's way more fun that way.

Join us on this documentation journey? We promise it's less boring than it sounds! 😂