I cut the pattern from the magazine and put the pattern in a plastic sleeve. You can put 2 patterns per sleeve by putting the patterns back to back. I have a 3 ring binder for chilrens quilts and another binder for lap/bedsize quilts. Every year or so I go through the patterns and discard several. There seems to always be some patterns I saved and later decide I probably will never make the quilt. Tossing the magazines helps remove clutter from my sewing room, magazines contain so much advertising I don't feel I am loosing anything. But gaining space.

My magazines, I go throught each one and copy or tear out any project I truly love. The I put those page/pages in a three (3) ring binder in plastic cover pages. Lots of projects in a much smaller space. I get rid of the magazine itself.

I make copies on my printer of the quilts I have good intentions of making and insert them in plastic holders and keep in a loose leaf binder.

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!

My friend and I each get a different quilt mag subscription to share. Any patterns we want to make we use the sheet protector - 3 ring binder method. When we are both done with the mags we check mark the cover and take those to our favorite LQS where they are put in a big basket to share with others. I do hang on to the magazines for a while to enjoy reading and looking, but they take up a lot of room to store.

This works good, I reorganized mine this year too! But when I first get the magazines I mark them with a yellow sticky if I'm interested in a pattern, then years later if I'm still interested in the pattern I'll tear it out and do as above, put in a page protector and file in a binder.

Mostly I just give mine away eventually. After they sit on the shelf for a year or so, I figure if I have not used them by now, it is safe to give them away. This board keeps me in more pattern ideas than I can ever get around to working on!!

Can't stand to ruin a quilting magazine. I always copy any pattern I think I want to make and organize them in a loose leaf binder. Then I share the magazine with someone else.

all my patterns are in sheet protectors, then in three ring binders....i hve the binders separated by type of quilt, then i would like to make a list of the quilt names, and in which binder it is in, then i can actually find the pattern after it goes into the binder......LOL!!!

I do this also. Sometimes it is fun to browse through the notebooks just to remember what I saved. I'm sure I will never have time to make them all but it's fun to look.