I just recently went through alot of my stuff and it was like giving away a child! lol But I had to do it. I picked out a few patterns that I might try if I ever got around to doing another cross stitch pattern, but gave the rest away. Same thing with my crocheting and so on. I got a binder and some plastic sleeves to store the few patterns that I cut out of the mags. Even had to do it with my quilt books. Hubby is a tyrant and sees it all as trash. Don't get me started....grrrr

Oh wow do you by any chance have any of the Cross Stitch & Country Crafts? I did the Little Aviator which was published in the Jan/Feb 88 issue and also did the Tea Party which was published in the Jan/Feb 86 issue but I only had a copy of the Tea Party I have the picture done except for the back stitching which I need the original for the colors, if you have that issue I would buy it from you pm me if you do. thanks for your trouble in looking for that mag.

This is a great idea...as long as I didn' get back ones I already had :|

If you decide to give them away, I am starting a prayer quilt club at the church and could use anything that has to do with quilting!
I see we are both from Tennessee, send me a message if I can take any of them off your hands. lol Have a blessed day!

I would donate to a local library or give to Goodwill or Salvation Army stores.

The lady who does my longarm quilting for me took all of my old magazines for her quilt guild. I just needed some more space in my quilting room and finally decided I couldn't keep them anymore. She was thrilled to get them.She said they sell them at quilt shows.

contact either omak or amma. one of them is on the serious lookout.

by the looks of it,you have plenty of suggestions. One rainy day, I sat on the floor and looked at every magazine, I cut the pages of the magazine I wanted and threw the rest in recycling. I made a stack of INSPIRATION. When ever I am down, or just wanting something different, I grab my inspiration stack and gaze. It motivates and inspires me to get up and do something wonderful

it's just such a shame to cut into them.

KathyN............. that is a great idea....hugs SG

PS Kathy said to send one along with your swaps

Some libraries do not take them. I volunteer at a used book store where we take donated books and sell them with all proceeds going to the library. NO ONE has ever purchased any quilting magazines along with many craft leaflets, booklets, etc. but we keep them just in case. I just tear out what I need and see if any of my friends would like them, otherwise, out they go to recycling. I keep my pulled out treasures in folders: bags, bed quilts, wall hanging, and whatever else and put them in a plastic carryall and keep that under my chair in my bedroom. At least they are all in one place!

I do this also. I take them to my quilt guild aftert I have gone through them and others take them everyone knows they are not whole. If I need a page that another quilt starts on I copy that page so the next pattern is intact. I go through my magazines several times before I part with them.

Nursing homes can't use magazines like cross stitch or quilting. They love to get large print books, but most of the residents can't do crafts like these anymore. the crafts they do are usually with styro. trays and yarn or pictures pasted onto light weight trays. I know this because I have been going to the nursing home for 14 years and have even helped with crafts and not too many of those dear sweet people can master crafts. The help ususally has to help them with it. You could try the Senior Center or Independent Living (Retirement Home). they are usually more able to do things like crafts.

I only keep magazines 5 yrs or less. Older ones, I donate to good will, the library or a quilt guild.

scan the patterns you like into a file on your PC, then donate the whole magazine. No pages missing that way!

My neighbor just brought me a dozen of old magazines all wrapped up so pretty with a beautiful curly ribbon! I just had surgery and this was so nice and thoughtful. She said "I could have bought you a couple new magazines or bring you all of these "!. Pretty frugal I thought and I love the idea! So, I will save my old magazines for that reason! Someone will be in need of them just like me!

Why not take the unwanted books to the second hand stores, that way the charity gets a small fee selling them onto other new comers to the quilting and other rafts. check to see if you want any patterns first. I love flower patters for applique, plus cats, dogs etc. I think where ever you give them, they will be much appreciated.

I've been trying to go through my magazines and pull out the patterns I like. I put them in page protectors and into a binder. If there's a page that goes with two patterns, I make a copy of it.

Haven't thrown out the leftovers of the magazines, though, can't bring myself to do that.

Well I don't live far from Jackson, Tn. About 10-15 miles depending on how far into Jackson you go but I don't have any magazines on quilting but would love too have some if you are willing too share any.

I like the idea of some sort of magazine swap-good idea! Should be easy enough for quilting groups or guilds, say once every 4 or 5 months or so, but hard for someone like me who doesn't know of any near me. If anyone is interested in the San Diego area, I think I would be willing to part with several years of Quilters Newsletter, and Quick Quilts, and maybe Quilts with Style (great for foundations piecers). I cannot bring myself to cut up any, and still periodically pull old copies of other mags down and find a pattern I want to make. In any case, most mags have great articles/tutorials, quilt motifs, applique templates, etc. which, as a self-taught quilter, still refer back to.

I LOVE quilting magazines!! I have collected a lot of them. Finally I started going through them. I cut out all of the articles and patterns for things I really wanted to share, put them in clear covers and put them in a big 3 ring binder. We recycle, so I did not feel guilty about sending the leftovers to the recycle center. Now have an easy way to find the patterns I love. It is so much easier to look through them for my next project.

We have downsized and I am unable to keep stacks of magazines. I go through them and pull out patterns that I think I would like to do and put them in a 3 ring binder so I can find them.

Our quilt guild has a fund raiser every year and they sell bundles of old magazines.

I find that if you have a yard sale and sell them for so much for say 4 they go fast. If I lived closer I would buy some. Other wise take them with you to your monthly guild meeting and let how ever wants them take them or sell them to them.

Farmer623...have you decided what to do with your magazines?

When I'm done with mine, I give away what I can and donate the rest to my local library.

I got rid of all mine at my yard sale-books too!!!!!
A lot of quilters go to yard sales.
Marie

We take ours to guild meetings for the "company store" to sell them for 25 cents each. The people in charge of the store put the money back in the treasury.

Some communities have libraries that will take them. I do a lot of charity quilting with a local group and they devour magazines--new or old.

I go through old magazines and simply cut out the pages that I want to keep
and put them in a book with plastic covers. When I go through this book, it contains only those articles,etc., that interest me.
Then I throw the others away. I know it seems wasteful, but if you don't get rid of them, it can just clutter your quilt spaces and once you do get rid of them,
guess what???? YOU DON'T MISS THEM!

Put them on the board and either ask a certain price or let people pick a price they are willing or able to pay.

my daughter and I both have a few years worth of quilting magazines and what we did was go through them and either copied or cut out a particular pattern if we thought we would use it in the near future and then gave the magazines away. some went to my sister in law in Maine and the others went to a friend in Conn. they both are fairly new to quilting and they think they have hit the jack pot :lol:

If you wish to sell them join the yahoo group called: Sewitsforsale. Magazines sell fast on that board.
Anna

Our quilt quild members bring magazines they no longer want to quild meeting. Members may take as many magazine as they like home with them. Magazines left over at the end of the meeting go back home with the member who brought the magazine.

They could be take to nurseing homes I'm sure the ladies would enjoy looking through them.

I don't even know where a quilt guild is close to me nor do I even know what they do!!! I am just now beginning how to make quilt tops and hope too learn too make a complete quilt before long. That's the reason I don't have any quilt magazines. Now a friend of mine told me today that she had a couple that she was gonna bring me and I told her thanks and after I read through them I would return them too her and she OH NO! I don't need them back. They are for you. And I thanked her again. Can't wait too see what is in the magazines

I have the worst time parting with quilting magazines. I love them and sit and reread them. Any other magazines I donate to local library...but cant seem to part with the quilting magazines.

Margie

Donate them to a senior center with a sewing/quilting group, your local library, rest homes where some of the residents are able to sew, 4-H sewing groups, quilt guilds, ask around to find new quilters, women's shelters, prisons, church quilting groups, etc. etc.

farmer, put you fav. patterns on a CD by scanning them first to your computer. Then label your CD's and keep them in a portable CD holder. You coould cross index them into a little file so you know what patterns you have. You could even print out a small pic to go on the index card.

I had accumulated about 15 years of several different quilt magazines. I had all issues of my favorite magazine. The other magazine were not complete. When I got an especially tempting offer, I'd subscribe for a year. When my subscription ran out, I might or might not renew. Probably, I'd just subscribe to a different magazine. The magazines were about to run me out of my sewing room. I took a day and went through all the magazines, culled out the ones that no longer interested me and gave them to a charity sponsored thrift shop. I'm now down to one shelf and a box of magazines. Don't ask me to count them. I still have one subscription that has not yet run out, so I 'm still accumulating magazines, just not as fast.