leatheflea

I stick the pattern folded up in the fabric that I want to make it with and stick it the cabinet. Then when I'm ready to make it, its all right there ready to go!

amma

Scan or make copies, then notes to refer back to the magazines they came from :D:D:D

LisaGibbs

I did this with my scrapbook magazines and will be doing this with all of my quilting ones as well. I scan to the computer then burn a disk with them so I always have a spare. That way I can pass on the magazines or if I have a book with one I want the same thing. Now I have them on one little disk and clutter free space--plus I can label them in files by type and have easy access to them.

jljack

I'm not nearly as organized as you all. I just save the magazines in boxes, but I do put little sticky flags on the patterns I like. Takes a while to go through them, but sometimes I get inspired by things I saw before but didn't like then.

AliKat

Sewmagic just posted this question yesterday ... titled "organizing quilt patterns." You might want to read the responsses she has recieved.

ali

pinecone

To make it easier to find: http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-141004-1.htm

piney

Zhillslady

Let me know how it works. I was researching to see if there was an online storage I could access thru my smartphone. We use a virtual office here at work and can access every document we have online from anywhere via internet and I've gotten spoiled. Imagine taking your patterns everywhere.

kclausing

I tend to use post it notes to mark the pages. Interestingly enough when I pull out the magazine I end up finding a different pattern to make. My how tastes change from season to season

MsEithne

I have an old PDA (circa 2002, I think), with a foldup keyboard and have an old dababase program on it called HanDbase. I wrote an aplet that has fields that describe the project by publication, date, author, colour, fabric, type of block, fabric and a field for whatever. Most of the fields are just dropdown menus that I can check off. It takes me maybe 2 minutes maximum per project.

Every time I buy a new publication, I put all the projects into my database, even the ones I am not interested in.

Basically, I outsource my memory!

Yooper32

I do surgery with a small utility knife, put in clear holders and into a binder, then try to get rid of the rest of the magazine. If it is butchered too badly, it goes to recycle. I tried to find sources to take the remains,like nursing homes, but no such luck. At least, I didn't bury the remains in the ground, they will end up in a new magazine, or something.