How do you store your block patterns and templates?
#31
Originally Posted by Ardelle Coult
Walmart sells a cake box that locks and has carrying handles - and stacks. They cost around $5. I use them to store fabric, patterns and ongoing projects. Since I live in a motor-home and travel full-time, they are perfect for me.
#33
Originally Posted by janRN
I save the clear plastic packaging that curtains, tablecloths, sheets, etc., come in. Most have zippers and a hook on the top and vary in size from 8x6 up to comforter sized. I store projects in the larger ones, patterns in smaller ones, take along projects in others. They can hang from hooks or a clothes hanger out of the way but you can still see what's in them.
The larger zipper plastic bags that blankets come in are treasures, too.
#34
I have 2 binders 1st binder I use for patterns that I have made. I have a paper stappled to the pattern telling me the date when I started the quilt and when I finished the quilt.And if I kept it or I gave It to someone. Also I add a picture.
2nd binder is for all the patterns that I have found and would like to make someday.
3rd is a plastic bin made for going under the bed its not very deep and you can see all your fabric. I have 2 of those for my fabric stash.1 bin for Christmas fabric and the other for all the other fabric. I also have a deeper plastic tub for the quilts I am ready to make. I put the fabric and any other pieces to make the quilt in a plastic bag .When I'm ready I can pick which quilt I want to make and its all in one spot.
2nd binder is for all the patterns that I have found and would like to make someday.
3rd is a plastic bin made for going under the bed its not very deep and you can see all your fabric. I have 2 of those for my fabric stash.1 bin for Christmas fabric and the other for all the other fabric. I also have a deeper plastic tub for the quilts I am ready to make. I put the fabric and any other pieces to make the quilt in a plastic bag .When I'm ready I can pick which quilt I want to make and its all in one spot.
#35
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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Boot boxes, super size ziplock bags, 3 ring binders and some patterns are made of scrap poster board with holes punched in them and twist ties thread thru them to make a hanging loop and then I hang them on my pegboard wall!!
#39
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Raleigh,NC
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I got to thinking about that, and with me just beginning, I don't have many patterns for quilts. But in my piles of stuff, I discovered the accordion file, toe one used for bills and such, it hasn't been used for quite some time, and that is ideal for the patterns, and alphabetized as well!
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