Originally Posted by
Quilt-Till-U-Wilt
I tear out what I like. I buy the see through notebook inserts, slip them in the plastic insert, and put them in large spiral ring notebooks. You could have a notebook for runners, one for quilts, wall hangings etc. I've found the large business notebooks at sales for 50 cents each.
I was doing the very same thing. I went through years of magazines when I was off work on medical. Picked out what I liked but kept the last two years in my magazine cases. Then I began to feel guilty. What if someone else could have used those patterns? So, now I am a little more particular. I put a sticky note on a project. After the two years are up and I review that magazine again, if I'm still in love with the pattern I scan or copy just those I want to save -- and forward the magazine to a fellow quilter. Since retiring, I've been working with "less fortunate" women, teaching them quilting, so I have no problem recycling those magazines.