10 Planners and Journals For Makers
2023 is here and we are ready for it!
This is the best time to start thinking about not only our resolutions for the new year, but also all of the knits and pieces that we’re hoping to add to our handmade collections!
We are planner-obsessed over at Our Maker Life and we’ve come up with 10 different planners and journals (both physical and digital) that will help you get your making queue planned out ASAP.
Ivory Paper Co All-In-One Planner
This planner includes daily, weekly, and monthly spreads! This lets you plan your day with to-dos and schedule your week with your weekly layout. Each planner is made by hand in Ohio, and this company is both family and black-owned!
Another BIPOC-owned company! For every planner sold, they donate funds and planners to nonprofit organizations who are doing great work in their communities, ranging from raising mental health awareness to providing education for underserved youth.
They also offer a free PDF version of the planner for anyone to print and use, regardless of their financial ability.
1Canoe2 Weekly Planner
This is the type of planner that’s perfect for makers who are aesthetically-inclined! This weekly planner has a variety of beautiful covers and simplified spreads.
The company even offers a Bullet Journaling Class for $39 if you’re wanting more resources.
Happiness Planner
This version of the Happiness Planner is going to focus on "Loving you", learning to let go of the past, healing your inner child, and learning to love and accept yourself unconditionally.
There are monthly and daily spreads, and plenty of space for goal-setting, though this is definitely designed to be more than just a planner.
Vogue Knitting Project Journal
Whatever your level and whatever your project, TheVogue Knitting Project Journal provides the professional guidance you need and the creative freedom you want. Casual knitters will find guided entries to help them record essential information, such as needle size, yarns, and more. Experienced knitters get ample space to track alterations to existing patterns. For budding and seasoned knitwear designers alike, there’s gridded paper to draw schematics, knitter’s graph paper to create charts, specialized knitter’s colorwork graph paper, and more—everything they could possibly require.
With 25 project templates, vital design insight such as project yarn estimates, standard body measurements, and instructions for drawing schematics and making alterations, this is every knitter’s dream journal.
Knitter’s Planner
The Knitter’s Planner is the ultimate tool for keeping your life and knitting organized!
Customizable calendar options, goal setting, personal and knitting to-do lists, patterns, knitting resources, and a project planning section. Keep track of daily life and knitting all in one place.
Strickplaner
This knitting planner will help you to choose the best projects for a relaxed knitting time, to choose the best yarn and to organize your projects and notes in a clever way.
You can use the timelines to plan your projects over the year. There’s information about imperial and metric units and measurements, yarn weights and types of fiber. There are pages to keep track of your yarn purchases and wish lists for everything knitting-related, pages for knitting books, fun podcasts and knitting events. Jot down your ideas for future projects in the “Ideas” section of the planner, and write down every detail when you cast on in the “Projects” pages.
The Knitting Planner
The Knitting Planner is a must-have for any knitter or knitwear designer and includes project planning pages, brainstorming pages, lists, knitter's graph paper and more.
In addition to providing pages to plan and record projects, The Knitting Planner functions as a day-to-day planner with monthly and weekly pages with plenty of room for writing and/or bullet journaling. This planner will give you a place to record all your important knitting information, like the measurements of friends and family and yarn requirements for projects you want to knit. At 6 x 9", this planner is the perfect size to throw into your knitting bag and with 240 pages awaiting your notes and ideas, you'll fall in love with this planner and knitting companion.
DeBrosse Pattern Writing Notes
Prfect for designers, you can take guided notes as you design crochet + knit patterns. With all the right prompts, you won't miss a detail. No more sketching on napkins, looking up stitch abbreviations, or memorizing hook sizes.
This is a digital product.
Digital Knitting Planner Bundle
This digital knitting notebook and planner includes custom, dynamically linked organizers for your projects, fiber, patterns, tools, and more. You'll instantly receive a download link for multiple zip files that include the digital planners, printable worksheets, cover images, and digital stickers.
Let us know which one you end up choosing or if you have any other recommendations for us! We are always looking for more resources for makers!
Happy Planning,
The OML Team
