Quilt magazines
 

Just curious, what do you do with all your older quilt magazines? I'm getting ready to give many away since the clutter builds so quickly. They have great information that mostly never gets dated but I never remember where I saw it when I need it and I am not willing to take hours to look. Besides, you can pretty much figure anything out on the WWW. I've thought about tearing articles out and filing but I can never see that far into the future of what I might want.

I keep some. I scan some of the articles if I'm getting rid of the magazine completely & add plenty of tags to them so I can find it when needed. And I tear some patterns out if I think I might use them in the future -- but honestly, I don't keep many patterns. I mostly just keep the articles showing techniques because I figure by the time I want the pattern, there will be an updated version of it that I would prefer.

One of my quilting friends belongs to a quilting group. They are mainly older ladies and they do not subscribe to magazines. So I save them up and give them to my friend. The ladies love getting them.

I don't bother to look through them, if I did I would keep them all again. I take them to my guild's free table. I also take some to the hospital admissions waiting room. I think I may get someone interested in quilting.

I agree most quilting tips/techniques can be found online. I save my favourite uTube tutorials for easy look up.
I've given away most of my magazines and stopped buying them. I prefer to purchase a really great book occasionally.

We pass around a lot of quilt magazines in the two quilting group I belong to. I just scan onto my computer what I want to refer to later and then pass them onto another quilter.

I am in the process of giving away all of my old quilting magazines to the library. Discovered that some of my collections are 20 to 25 years old! Hopefully the library can sell them at their Friends of the Library annual book sale. Some are a complete year's worth of magazines in a binder; others are loose.

Oh no! does that mean getting rid of my beloved magazines are in my future? I wonder, is there quilting in the next life? If we don't need to sleep there probably is no need for quilts. What a bummer!

I donated mine to the friends of the library. I don't subscribe to any anymore. They were overwhelming my space! (0:

I dislike getting magazines with missing pages.

If I take a page or two out of a magazine I don't donate it unless someone just wants the paper. It goes in the trash.

I donate my magazines to my guild's free table. I figure they are getting them for free so they shouldn't complain if a page or two is missing. If I've torn out more than a pattern or two I just put them in the recycling bin.

I too no longer buy magazines. But I have to comment here -- I am able to go online with my library card and log into Zinio through the library -- it's a free magazine site -- and can "borrow" a copy of American Patchwork. You can flip through, read what you want, print out articles or patterns you know you HAVE to have LOL and then it just gets returned, no hassle, nothing to remember returning, no late fees. The have a few years of magazines on the site.

i donate to our quild they sell them for a quarter.

I don't have that many and including books may 20. I am about to pitch 4-5 magazines since I pulled the article pattern/template. Most of the remainder in the magazine is ads. I have a couple books with different animal patterns for applique. I can pull so much up on the web. any patterns are already in project boxes or a small binder I have. Some of the other 8-9 books have patterns and templates so I'm keeping those. Rejects will be recycled. Don't really need anymore since I have many bookmarked.

I have stopped buying the quilting magazines. I have 4 full office type magazine holders. I've gone through each magazine, and marked the front with a post-it-note with the names and page numbers of what I want to make. Ideally once I make the items, I'll discard the magazine. I say "ideally" because I've not made anything I've marked yet!

I stopped buying quilting magazines. I have a used book store near me that will buy them just like they buy used books. I have also donated them to the Friends of the Library. If there is something I want in a magazine, I tear it out and recycle them magazine.

I stopped buying them when I realised it was giving me so many quilts I wanted to make with no time. Now I buy individual patterns that I will do.

You can buy them, but throw them out or give away when done. One at a time.

Donate them to your local public library for resale in their used book sale. Proceeds are used to buy new books, magazines, etc for the library.

Great idea. My daughter is a librarian - going to check this out with her. Love the magazines but hate the clutter. Thanks.

I am a magazine hoarder, but when the floor groans, you must adjust, so I take a pile that I know I have no interest in anymore and take them to the local library. They are always happy to get them for their annual mag. sale, they said that quilting mags. go first.

I've been going thru my magazines and getting rid of most. I have gone thru them a lot but now it's time to purge and use the space for something else. At first it's hard to do but you get over that.

I think you very easily forget what you once had and suddenly your space fills up with new stuff. I think everything just breeds and multiplies while you're not looking.

I bought some colored dots that you see at yard sales from the local dollar store. I put one of those at the top of any page I want to keep. The rest of the magazines are passed on to a family member who loves looking though them.

You can also bundle up a year of each different subscription and off them to your local library. Ours loves getting them this way.

We have a give and take table at Guild where there are always magazines. People take, some keep, others take and read and bring back. If you know someone who is part of a guild they probably have the same thing.

Love looking thru magazines but more pages are devoted to advertising than to the construction of quilts. I just don't buy them anymore, and the ones I do have - dust collectors!

I keep all my magazines and I guess I might have 500 or more now. I buy them at thrift stores, they are just fabulous to read when I have a few minutes. You could give them to your favorite thrift store and someday I might buy them.

I too have quit buy/subscribing to magazines because I cannot part with them. So my solution was to not get anymore, errr except for BLOCK, that is a great read!!!Not to mention the patterns!!!

Our local library has a group called "Friends of the Library" that takes donated books for the library, and also sells any that are duplicates for money once a month, to raise funds for new books. I gave them my old quilting magazines . They told me they always sell really well. I have no clutter, and they can buy new books. We both win.

Magazines
 

Ugh, our local thrift stores are no longer taking magazines. Sometimes I don't think they know what they're doing......

I am going to take some of mine to our next guild meeting.

I have donated mine to a school yard sale. I have dropped all subscriptions. Feels good! Real good! I am using the free space to organize my stash.

For the time being, I am keeping them. I'd only get rid of one if I'd finished all of the projects I had planned on making or had changed my mind.

Me too. It's a pet peave even if I only pay a quarter for the magazine at the thrift shop. I copy the patterns I like then give the magazines away. Right now I have a huge stack of Block Magazines and other books and mag waiting to find a new home. I also quit subscribing to all but two due to the WWW.

I think I'm going to bring my to the quilt shop the next time I go there. I know they'd take them as they have free magazines there already.

I quit all quilt magazines quite a few years ago when McCalls had that aricle on copyright that you could not make a quilt from one of their patterns and even hang it in the library because that was infringing on copyright laws and since my group of friends love to quilt and share we are using our older magazines and public internet so no longer buy or use patterns copyrighted no since in geting in trouble for a hobby and besides we like the freedom of sewing together and sharing our finished product

I had tons of magazines collecting over the years but there comes a time to get rid of some of them. A few years ago I went through them & kept only the ones I wanted & gave the rest away. I very rarely buy them anymore unless there is a pattern I am looking for.

I tear out the ones that I think I will make and put in a binder. The rest I give to anyone that wants them or donate to charities that recycle magazines

I used to write on the front what pages I wanted and what they were about. As piles grew I got folders and labeled what was in them and removed pages I wanted to keep and file them in the folders. The magazines go into the recycle ben. I have stopped most and only take Quilters World and Fon's and Porters Love Of Quilting. I still pick up some from the store when I see something new but most have the same patterns redone over and over.