Old quilting magazines!
 

Wondering how to "recycle" old quilting magazines, too many patterns and not enough time! Suggestions welcomed. Thanks!:confused:

I also have been going thru my quilting books and getting rid of most of them. Not in a million years will I ever get to make all of the patterns in the books I have marked. I have a large amount now and am heading out to our local Goodwill to drop off. Hopefully, someone will get some good use out of them.

I take the magazines to a quilt group that meets every week to hand quilt. We have a coffee break and we all look at magazines and show and tell. Several local quilt shows sell old magazines. If you are a guild member ask them.

Don't toss them, you can leave them on the gifting table at your quilt guild or drop them of at a charity resale shop.

or alibrary. our library is huge. we have a sr.s room with ol magazines and such, maybe yours does too.

Anything useful I want to get rid, I list on ReUseIt. (It's a yahoo group in different cities; you send an email to the group with what you're offering and your zip code in the subject line, and describe the item in the email. Those who are interested email you back, and you arrange to leave it outside for them to pick up. I've never listed anything that wasn't instantly claimed.)

My DD lives in Paducah, KY - the Quilt Show capital of the Midwest - there is a church thrift shop there and she takes her outgrown, used things to them to sell for their ministries. I had a bag of OLD quilt magazines and I gave them to her to give to them. Then I had more and actually called them and asked them if they wanted more and the lady that answered the phone said YES that they had sold every one in about a day after my DD brought them in. So, that is where I send my old magazines, books, etc.

I agree with lynnie. I just took a huge stack to the table at the library along with some older books and booklets for quilting. They sell some and put a free sign on others. It helps the local library fund other programs.

But, in the past I did donate many of them to the thrift store that supports the local food bank. The senior centers would probably enjoy them too.

When I was moving, I packaged old magazines in chronological order into medium flat rate boxes and offered them here on QB free but for the cost of shipping. I got rid of them all. Most went to newer quilters that hadn't had the time to accumulate like some of us long time quilters have. I received many nice notes from the recipients.

I had years of old magazines. i removed the pattern I wanted and gave the rest to my daughter and my quilting buddy. They looked thru them and also took what they wanted and then recycled them. You can't keep everything.

Many libraries have "friends of the library" tables where you can place magazines you don't want. I am also bringing some of mine to a Project Linus meeting. I emailed the coordinator first because some of my things are sewing-related, not specifically quilting, and she said to just bring everything. I will let the people at the meeting take whatever they want and drop off the rest at the thrift store.

Two cautions--many libraries do not have the space to store magazine donations--our's will put them out for the Friends of library sell and those that don't sell are recycled. the other caution is that only set them out at your Guild meetings if a) your guild actually has a "free" table or b) you set out but also pick them up if no one takes them! almost every other month, I'm picking up left magazines from someone leaving theirs at guild meetings and then not disposing of when the meeting is over--so those of us that are doing all the picking up are stuck doing it. We have an annual garage sale and I take mine there. those that don't sell are either donated to library for their sale, to the local thrift shop--or if neither want them (and sometimes we have huge box fulls)we take to recycling.

Thank you all for your input with regard to the old quilting magazines! I will split them up; donate some to our library, and also Senior Citizens group, and to the sewing group at the Boys/Girls Club for projects.

You might check and see if there is a 4-H club that might want some. So few places teach sewing in schools any more.

Take To Salvation Army..... They are always in need of items to sell..

A member of our guild recently brought a pike to one of our recent meetings and everyone enjoyed going through them. I adopted a couple myself.

Donate them to your local library to be sold in their annual used book & magazine sale.

How about the local library?

I would pay for shipping to have some of them!

Our guild has a freebie table. Maybe you can find a group like that? Sometimes the public library will take magazines in good condition and put them out when they have a sale.

I have tied up issues of the same mag that I know I'll not longer have time to do and taken them to our local library. One of the libraries has a 10 cent table that you can just put them on and our town library has a sale each year and love to get an entire years issue of one magazine because people will pay more for them.

Just recently, I realized there are some really neat patterns you can send for and make later. I save articles that I think might help me in the future.
We also old magazines at the quilt show.
Mariah

In our quilt guild we put together one year sets of various quilt, crochet, knit magazines and sold them. We wrapped a cute ribbon around them and made sure they were complete and unmarked and clean. They sold in the boutique very quickly for $5 to $10 per set.

We lay them on our 'free' table at our guild, but our library also has a rack where people can drop of magazines that
others may take for free. When I put quilt magazine and Backpacker Magazine on the rack, they are snapped up incredibly fast.

I pass my old quilting magazines to a girl friend, she then takes out the pages with patterns she would like to make and puts them in a plastic jacket and then in a 3-ring binder. She will often use some of the magazines in her Kindergarten class.

I have some, will just keep them and let heirs decide what to do with them. They are neatly stored in a cabinet in sewing room.

How about a Senior Centers and Nursing Homes.

I just donated mine to a local group here called "Friends of the Library". Any of them that the library does not want to keep, will be put in the once a month garage type sale, that raises funds to buy new books for the library. (They sell them for $.50- $1.00) I have warned some local quilters that the next sale will have over a hundred quilt magazines complete with pattern inserts. No muss no fuss, and no more piles of them that I can't just throw away. I recommend it if you can. (I decided to donate them in the name of my BFF so she gets the tax credit.)

How come? I have been collecting for thirty years and can't bring myself to part with the things.

I don't have many; about 9-10. They have templates in them and patterns but also some great stories. Mine really aren't that old. I narrowed it down quite a bit. I usually offer to my neighbor and niece. They have friends who are interested so they get passed through friends.

Took my pile to the library yesterday and they were delighted to take them for their sale table. Said they sell better than any other magazines.

The local library sells old mags for 25 cents. Not much, but every little bit helps the library meet their expenses and will keep them out of the landfill.

Goodwill does not take magazines. Try Half Price Books. At our local store, what they will not buy (with your permission) they will donate to shelters.

A crafty idea - I pulled any patterns I wanted out of mine and then my niece and I cut up the rest to make paper beads. The colorful quilt photos made some great beads!

I took my old quilt magazines to the quilt guild and people love them.