So do I. When I first started quilting I would print them out but saving them online works so much better. Never have to remember where I put the pattern, it's somewhere on my computer and easy to find.

you are not alone. I have so many that I want to try but I need to get my UFOs finished before I start anything else. Between spending too much time on the computer or householdl duties or my son being home so I cannot get to my sewing room, I will never get to try even half of what I print. lol

I do the same thing! I enjoy flipping through the binder and looking at the patterns for ideas or inspiration. Of course, I prefer books to Kindles or Nooks so maybe I'm a little "old school".

No, you aren't alone.

I print patterns because I can lay the "possible quilts to make" on my cutting table and compare them, choosing from there. I'd go nuts trying to compare various bookmarked sites.

Confession: not only do I print the patterns, I bookmark them too. The previous thread about losing a pincushin? My life for the last few years has been a search and rescue mission, hence the doubles of stuff I really want to keep track of. Hard with the two husbands. ;- )

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I print them out when I find them and put them in the three ring binders I use for magazine patterns. If I did not print them I would never remember them and I like to sit and look through my binders like a magazine to decide what I want to do.

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I bought the plastic sheet protectors and put my internet free patterns in them and then into a big 3 ring binder. works super.

OOH YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have three 3" ring binders filled with patterns. I also have hundreds of articles/patterns from magazines in folders. I love to look through them. They are slowly getting reorganized so that I can keep what I really want to make.

You are not alone out there in this world of free quilt patterns. I do the same as many others have indicated they do too. I just three hole punch them an put them in a three ring binder. Ta-Da! The pattern ideas stay safe and I can use this as my go-to place when I just must try something new to as to my UFO basket!

I don't print them - costs too much but I do have thousands of PDF files saved! Like I'll EVER get around to even a small portion of them :) Still, I just can't help myself!!

I am exactly the same way!!!

Wow, you get two husbands? Mine won't even allow me to date!

I have all my computer files and photos stored online. I can access them from any computer.
If my computer crashes I can restore the files. Google Cloud, ICloud, Amazon Cloud and other online storage is available. Picasa will upload all your photos to an online album. Every picture I take on my Iphone goes online for backup. You pay for internet let it work for you.

I have a bunch in binders. :)

NO, I do IT! and have them in Binders in the clear sleeves .:)

I definitely have a stash of quilt photos that I printed from Google and Flickr, and find it so much easier to leaf through them than to look at an icon on the screen and try to figure out whether it's worth opening or not. I'd be clicking all day. Much more relaxing to sit with a cup of tea on a Sunday morning. I also collect books - at latest count I have 137 to provide me with inspiration.

I copy /print the free quilt patterns, have used lots of them. have only bought i quilt pattern. I put the printouts in a 3 ring binder.

I'm with you. I have too many magazines and things I've printed. I just download them and leave them be until I need a pattern.

How do you save it to your Kindle? I would love to be able to do that. I just don't know how yet. Please explain. Thank you.

I've done a lot of that. But its because every quilt I do has been a different pattern.. So many to try I'll never get caught up :)

I do this incessantly! I spent most of one day this week sorting and hole punching a messy stack of printed-off patterns and images and ideas to put in a 3 ring binder I've now labeled Quilt Patterns & Ideas Book II! (That tells you I've already filled up Book I). If I ever get even half of these made, I'll be swamped in quilts. But I'm a little (a lot?) obsessive about saving, either on the computer or by printing out, a quilt photo or pattern I like.

Oh and how many have you printed only to discover you already have it? It is so adicting. I only hope I have the time to make them all.

I print them, staple the pattern together and put it in a sheet protector and then in a binder. I have three big binders and need to make another one. I find I do not use the patterns of whole quilts as much as I do patterns of blocks.

I have printed out a few patterns but I found myself not using them and it used up a whole lot of ink. And then one time I was shopping with my mother and we went to Staples. She bought a whole case of paper and I don't know how many ink cartridges. Then I took a hard look at her "office." My sister and I are going to have to rent one of those giant dumpsters just to haul away all the tons and tons of emails and cross stitch patterns and who knows what else she's printed out.

Now I have folders and save ideas I may want to use on the computer. If it disappears before I get around to doing it, oh well, there are another thousand new ideas to take its place!

Oh my gosh, I have stacks, too. I'm so tired of buying ink though. Not a cheap thing.

I have bunches of them. As a fairly new quilter (less than 2 yrs) I collected any that appealed to me in some way, as I had no idea what I would enjoy doing. Have enough to keep me going for years .

OMG! You peeked! I just moved and in unpacking I have them everywhere. Since I couldn't sew (everything packed) I printed every 'bucket list, want to do' I could find. Now that I am unpacking, I am back to buying stash - woohoo my favorite thing to do.

I am so going to steal your flash drive idea, and clean up some of my folders on the computer, and still have easy access. Thanks for sharing that idea.

I only need to live 100 more years to make all those quilts I have saved patterns for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The ones I print out I put in a binder-the others in a Quilt file on my computer:o

I thought I was the only one who did such things . . . I have 2 binders full, one for "table runners" and one for "quilts". I think there's enough patterns to last my lifetime, but here I go again and now start "saving" on my computer. I guess we just get inspired :thumbup:

That is me, too.

I have an entire bookcase full of binders, they're on dvd's and flash drives! And yes, I am checking myself into rehab just as soon as I get done printing & saving this last pattern I just found! Just one more!?!:shock: :D

LOL As we speak I have a pile of such beside me here on the loveseat to sort and seperate into file and discard. It's a good 8" high, and contains patterns I have made myself, printed off, sketched from other inspiration for future planning, and picked up at Joann's, etc. They were stacked up on my desk and kept falling off and sliding all over. My DH just gave me a flash drive to save the patterns online so I don't have to use so much ink and paper, also.

Lordy and I thought I was the only "nut" who's afraid she'll miss a pattern I'll like. Of course, I forget that I've saved it. LOL

I too, keep them in clear sleeves and binders, i have them saved on the desktop on the laptop, and IPad, magazines by the bed, seems like they are everywhere...:D

I have a loose leaf notebook filled with quilt patterns I've printed from various sources. For those I've used and planned to use again, I have a plastic bag insert with a zipper that holds the plastic templates I made.

I have 3 large notebooks of free patterns. I won't live long enough to make all these quilts or use all my fabric stash, but I have them if I need them! lol

i tend to store them on the computer. i like the idea of a flash drive just for quilting. i have oodles of books and magazines as well. those are my inspiration points for new projects. i do use the patterns i have, abet slowly since i only do one quilt at a time and those are mostly handquilted. i will learn to FMQ as soon as i quit working away from home so much, since that would speed up the process of making quilts for 15 family members.

OMG...do we all need to go to rehab. Let's go together and share our patterns w/ our buddies. Have SEVERAL 3 ring binders and last year went thru them all and took out patterns I just knew I'd never use and brought them to the free table at the guild. From my files to theirs...such excited quilters. Last month went thru them again and took the "why do I still have this pattern" from the binder and now printing out new stuff on the back of the old stuff. Recycling comes to my printer. So now have new file to file away.

And then there's the computer. It's in FAVORITES for a reason, right?

Does the madness ever end?

I too have a lot printed off and filed. I also have others bookmarked (these are maybe's). Then I have JUMP DRIVES that I have them on. I always use the same color (outer cover of drive), for patterns. That's because I use different colors for other things. I also like the drives that have a hook thing on them so all my drives can be on a ring hooked to my sewing table. I know that does not say I will use them all, but I know how to find them IF I need a pattern. Good luck