bonniebusybee

I have found a way to "index" my magazines so I can store the actual magazines in an out-of-the-way place, but still know what is in them.

I copy the cover picture with the issue and date of the magazine, and then copy the index pages that show pictures of the various quilts featured. These copies go in a month-by-month looseleaf. I only have to save 3-4 pages for each issue, but I can go directly to any pattern I want to look up.

i don't really want to get rid of the magazines, because when my grandchildren get married, I give them the stack and let them pick the quilt they'd like me to make.

Works great; saves lots of valuable space!

toodie11

I scan the patterns that I want to keep and give the mag's to my sister.

nellebelles

I like to go to the library to see the quilting magazines. I can also browse the library online and put a hold on the older ones to check out. I can keep them for 4 weeks at a time, and check them out again if I need to. Sure saves a lot of money doing it this way! I still get two quilting magazines through the mail, but when the subscriptions expire, I will just let them go, and enjoy them through the public library.

jitkaau

Gave the magazines away to a quilting group and only keep the specialty books now.

sewingsuz

I love them and I have so many that when I go back and look at them again I see more that I never noticed before.

sewingsuz

i have noticed that also, What I had a post it note on, I thought, Why would I make that?

grammysharon

I pass them on to friends, they pass them on to their quilt quild. :D

sewingsuz

That show is scarey! at least I am organized and a clean horder.

Quilting Grandma

Interesting on how so many times we move in the same directions. After HEAVY Christmas sewing, I have wanted some down time, but not too far away from quilting.
I have just spent 2 days going thru my quilting magazines, tearing out patterns tht I like and putting them into 3-fing binders. In fact, I just went to Staples today and purchased 2 more binders. Now I am working on how to organize them. LOL :lol:

1Blondie

I do the same thing as happy threader, I just take out the patterns I want to keep and put them in a binder, I put them in plastic sleeves so I can see the pics, so when I am ready I just pull them out and away I go.