This is what I would do: take 5 off the bookcase and look through. Take out any pattern that speaks to you, store in plastic sleeve for a 3 ring binder and drop the 5 magazines in recycle. Repeat until all are done. Now you can thumb through the 3 ring binders for projects. I think that many magazines is overwhelming and paging through all the ads is too much for me. I have table runners stored together, etc. Saves lots of time.