Originally Posted by
PaperPrincess
Wait, what? Books are on sale at CT? Ohh, I've been deleting their emails without opening... might need to go and just look. Rationalization: I need patterns to use up my stash.
Haha!!
When I was doing the "cleaning frenzy" this weekend (wherein I was reminded of WHY I JOINED THIS THREAD!!), I was also reminded that I DO NOT NEED ANY MORE PATTERNS OR BOOKS!!!!!!!
One thing that my daughter got me started doing is to tear out the patterns that appeal to me from my magazines, put those in sheet protectors in a binder, then give the "cannibalized" magazines away (I usually take them to my Longarm group meeting). So, using this method (that I'm usually behind on), I have two binders (monster-sized) of magazine patterns, two binders (smaller than monster, but still large) of "commercial" patterns, and one binder of embroidery patterns. And currently, I only have about 10 mag's that need to be "stripped". However, (again, because of the cleaning binge), I have a whole tote of "stripped" and/or mostly intact magazines to take to my meeting next Saturday. Cleaning/organizing this part of my sewing room most definitely reminded me that my moratorium needs to extend to all things sewing/quilting.
About the only thing I need to buy this year will be batting... and I'll wait until Foust Textiles does their "open to the public" sale and buy the roll.