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Old 03-08-2011, 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by blzzrdqueen
I have several quilt magazines, by several I mean, maybe 100 or so...that my husband is demanding I get rid of. I hate to give them up because I may need one some day, for a particular pattern...
Tell your husband they are your magazines, you are keeping them, end of discussion. Then tell him to go soak his head. For a long time. Till no air bubbles rise out of the water. :mrgreen:
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Old 03-08-2011, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by dungeonquilter
I would like to know as well. I have found that patterns that really appealed to me when I first started out, no longer do. And patterns that I didn't care for too much, now hold more appeal. Anyone else find this?
This make me hesitate to discard any of my magazines. Especially as I have stopped purchasing them due to the expense.
I have found that my tastes haven't really changed, but my ability and confidence has. So patterns that I never even considered in the past because there was NO WAY I could have done them, are now appealing. And I'm now confident enough to try techniques I wouldn't have considered in the past. Let my family pitch them in the recycling bin after I'm dead! LOL
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Old 03-08-2011, 11:41 AM
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As do I. Inspiration at different times, comes from different sources. What you "loved" 3 years ago--you probably won't "love" now.
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Old 03-08-2011, 11:51 AM
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I decided I didnt want to keep all the magazines, so I also use binders. I cut out the pattern and then file them by categories. For example, I have one binder for pieced quilts and sub-categories for bed quilts, baby quilts, wall quilts. Then other notebooks hold applique quilts, combination quilts, and other things like single blocks, or applique templates. I also have a section for finishing, and helpful hints. It works for me, but I had to make sure and mark the contents on the spine of the binder so I could find things easily.

Oh...I also have one category just with "inspiration" pictures. Sometimes the advertisements have beautiful quilts or fabrics pictured, and it sparks an idea, so I put that in the inspiration section. I also put pictures that I have taken at quilt shows in there.....with one section just for close ups of some of the FMQ that I have taken pics of....
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Old 03-08-2011, 12:01 PM
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I use a binder and protective sheets. The pattern and the templates all fit in one of the binder sheets. I can also store the tearsheets from magazines or free patterns that I have copied from other sources or printed off the Internet.

This is the pattern
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....and the templates for the pattern
[ATTACH=CONFIG]123153[/ATTACH]

These are printed off from the Internet
[ATTACH=CONFIG]123154[/ATTACH]
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Old 03-08-2011, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by blzzrdqueen
I have several quilt magazines, by several I mean, maybe 100 or so...that my husband is demanding I get rid of. I hate to give them up because I may need one some day, for a particular pattern...

What I want to do is save the template inserts and certain patterns from each magazine, but am unsure how to go about it. I need to make room and getting rid of the bulk of the magazines is a must.

How do you go about organizing patterns and templates from magazines you no longer want?

I took a large binder and sheet protectors and filed the template, directions, and pics together. separated with tabs for different types.
I also fixed one for crafts and one for sewing.
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Old 03-09-2011, 03:45 AM
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Originally Posted by dforesee
I don't take out the patterns I like and discard the magazine because I have learned over time that patterns I don't like today will be just what I want one day down the road. But I have found a space saving solution to store the largest # of magazines in the smallest amount of space that works better than any I have tried. I file the magazines alphabetically by title in hanging file folders (several mags to one folder) or cardboard magazine holders in a tall 4 drawer filing cabinet. On top of the cabinet I have a long file box for 3x5" cards in which I have set up a card catalog system. I have the name of a quilt pattern on the top line of the card, then below a listing of each magazine and page # that pattern can be found in. This took a while to set up a few years ago (going through all of the mags and filling in the cards), but it was fun and well worth it. Now I can find anything, and friends ask me for a pattern they need quickly instead of hunting through their magazines to find it. If I just want to browse mags for fun, I can take out a box or folder at a time and swap out for another one when I'm finished.
what a great idea. Will have to use that for myself
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Old 03-09-2011, 03:47 AM
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I decided on my own that if I was ever going to make any of those quilts I needed to organize them for my own sanity!

I went through every magazine and tore out the quilts I liked. I then put them in the top loading sleeves (got mine at Staples - 100 per box) that can be put in three ring binders.

After this was done I organized them into categories. For me it was applique quilts, baby quilts, traditional quilts, Christmas quilts, etc.

I then put these categories into binders. I bought the 3" binders and then some tabs to divide my categories.

Everyone thinks and works differently, but this is what works best for me.

I know someone who could NOT even think about tearing her magazines up, so what she did was take a color copy of the quilt she liked in each magazine. Usually the magazine name/date are on the bottom of the page, but if not, she would write that in. She then organized all of her magazines on a bookshelf. This way she could look through the copied pictures (she also put these in binders) and when she came to one she wanted to make she only needed to go to that magazine on her bookshelf.

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Old 03-09-2011, 03:56 AM
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Originally Posted by KathyAire
When I get a magazine, I go through it. If there is something that I think I might want to make, I put a little post-it type sticker on that page and save the magazine. If there is nothing in the magazine that interests me, I used to give it away to someone in Bible Study. That was before I joined this group. Now, I have a stack of the magazines that have post-it stickers on them and another stack that do not. When someone from this board is looking for a back issue of something, I go through the 'no post-it sticker' pile and see if I have it.
Sometimes I look at the pattern that I have a post-it sticker on and wonder what it was that appealed to me about that pattern. It may not still appeal to me and I just pull the post-it sticker off and put it on the other pile.
If you didn't want hold on to the magazines that do not have an item of interest in it, put them in a doctor's office, etc. Every magazine will not have something in it that I want.
This is what I do, including the rethinking about some patterns. I put the post-it at the top so I can put the magazine in one of those holders. Once in awhile I will go thru a holder to see if I still am interested in that group.
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I was tearing out the patterns I wanted to keep and storing them in a 3 ring binder, but then that got out of control. Now I scan them and store them on my computer. Much easier to find and they take up much less space.
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