During the past years I’ve accumulated a complete bookshelve’s worth of homedrawn patterns, labeled and classified in folders, that denominate projects (cathedral cape, white shirt) or guidelines (jabots, base patterns), leaving them readily referenceable whilst creating new pieces from previously taken measurements.
It does occur, however, that after a lengthy period of labour-intensive work, I find myself with quite a stack of un-named patterns, exhibiting seemingly random marks and calculations all over, waiting to receive their corrections and labeling, which often makes for a very insightful chore to be done before entering the next phase.