Old quilting magazines!
#21
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Bar Harbor, ME.
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I have tied up issues of the same mag that I know I'll not longer have time to do and taken them to our local library. One of the libraries has a 10 cent table that you can just put them on and our town library has a sale each year and love to get an entire years issue of one magazine because people will pay more for them.
#22
Just recently, I realized there are some really neat patterns you can send for and make later. I save articles that I think might help me in the future.
We also old magazines at the quilt show.
Mariah
We also old magazines at the quilt show.
Mariah
#23
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 368
In our quilt guild we put together one year sets of various quilt, crochet, knit magazines and sold them. We wrapped a cute ribbon around them and made sure they were complete and unmarked and clean. They sold in the boutique very quickly for $5 to $10 per set.
#24
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 2,137
We lay them on our 'free' table at our guild, but our library also has a rack where people can drop of magazines that
others may take for free. When I put quilt magazine and Backpacker Magazine on the rack, they are snapped up incredibly fast.
others may take for free. When I put quilt magazine and Backpacker Magazine on the rack, they are snapped up incredibly fast.
#25
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Lowell, MA
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I pass my old quilting magazines to a girl friend, she then takes out the pages with patterns she would like to make and puts them in a plastic jacket and then in a 3-ring binder. She will often use some of the magazines in her Kindergarten class.
#28
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Central Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
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I just donated mine to a local group here called "Friends of the Library". Any of them that the library does not want to keep, will be put in the once a month garage type sale, that raises funds to buy new books for the library. (They sell them for $.50- $1.00) I have warned some local quilters that the next sale will have over a hundred quilt magazines complete with pattern inserts. No muss no fuss, and no more piles of them that I can't just throw away. I recommend it if you can. (I decided to donate them in the name of my BFF so she gets the tax credit.)
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#29
How come? I have been collecting for thirty years and can't bring myself to part with the things.
#30
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Corpus Christi, Tx.
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I don't have many; about 9-10. They have templates in them and patterns but also some great stories. Mine really aren't that old. I narrowed it down quite a bit. I usually offer to my neighbor and niece. They have friends who are interested so they get passed through friends.
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