Organizing patterns from magazines
#121
I have many notebooks with the magazines in them. I found it easy to organize the magazines and to look through them. They were also preserved very nicely. You could do the same with the patterns you remove from the magazines. Just organize by type of pattern and keep it in the plastic sleeve. Sorry you have to get rid of your magazines. Even old magazines are great in quilting information and designs.
#122
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Join Date: Jul 2010
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I use a file cabinet with hanging folders too. you can get full year in one folder and file by magazine title. If I have marked a pattern using the sticky note tabs I put that up so know pattern I am interested in. this take a lot less space that bookshelf and I keep almost all my magazine due to different interests at different times.
#123
Two other quick thoughts. As we mature in our quilting abilities, what we will make changes, too. So something you may not think you can do now, after 5-10 years, you may want to make that quilt pattern. One more thought and I'll get off here. You might point out to your husband how much it would cost to replace even one or two of your magazines and how they are increasing in price every year.
#124
I put mine into notebooks with plastic inserts. I put one quilt pic and instructions..one on each side of see through sleeve. It works quit well. Then I mark the photo, etc. that templates are in back of bookand put the templates in the rear or cut them out and include them with pattern.
#125
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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I use the plastic magazine holders, they are thiner than the cardboard. I put a thin strip stickie note in the top of the magazine for all the patterns I want to remember. I have 10 in a 32" space and you can get at least 25 magazine in each one. I also have my cross-stitch books organized in these.
#126
I would scan the patterns onto my computer and save them on a disc and then save the inserts in a book. That way you don't have all the wasted pages in a magazine. Sometimes I just cut the ones out I like and put in a "quilt pattern" notebook w/ the templates.
#127
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Join Date: Apr 2010
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Originally Posted by dirty1mom
I have big 3 ring notebooks that I label with the magazine name. I put the patterns and templates, etc in those clear plastic sleeves and put into that magazines notebook. Sometimes if the mag. has a lot of patterns I want to keep, I stuff the whole magazine into the sleeve.
#128
Yes, I sell my magazines for $2.50 plus shipping. I had to have all the quilting magazines for several years and now don't have space for them, so am selling them to other quilters.
I find that you never know when you might want to make a special pattern and if you don't have it, it can be expensive to replace. Besides, I love to browse through them from time to time and am amazed at how many I find that I want to make someday. Those I scan into the computer now if I don't lose my harddrive again, I'll have them in a lot less space. But I miss a lot of really great patterns when I sell an issue.
Just let your husband know that this is your "clutter" and not his. Keep them under the bed if you need to hide you magazines, but don't get rid of unless you really have to.
I find that you never know when you might want to make a special pattern and if you don't have it, it can be expensive to replace. Besides, I love to browse through them from time to time and am amazed at how many I find that I want to make someday. Those I scan into the computer now if I don't lose my harddrive again, I'll have them in a lot less space. But I miss a lot of really great patterns when I sell an issue.
Just let your husband know that this is your "clutter" and not his. Keep them under the bed if you need to hide you magazines, but don't get rid of unless you really have to.
#130
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.
This make me hesitate to discard any of my magazines. Especially as I have stopped purchasing them due to the expense.
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