I cut the pattern from the magazine and put the pattern in a plastic sleeve. You can put 2 patterns per sleeve by putting the patterns back to back. I have a 3 ring binder for chilrens quilts and another binder for lap/bedsize quilts. Every year or so I go through the patterns and discard several. There seems to always be some patterns I saved and later decide I probably will never make the quilt. Tossing the magazines helps remove clutter from my sewing room, magazines contain so much advertising I don't feel I am loosing anything. But gaining space.