HELP!! HELP!! How do you ORGANIZE & STORE QUILT PATTERNS from MAGAZINES??
#21
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Missouri
Posts: 959
I cut the pattern from the magazine and put the pattern in a plastic sleeve. You can put 2 patterns per sleeve by putting the patterns back to back. I have a 3 ring binder for chilrens quilts and another binder for lap/bedsize quilts. Every year or so I go through the patterns and discard several. There seems to always be some patterns I saved and later decide I probably will never make the quilt. Tossing the magazines helps remove clutter from my sewing room, magazines contain so much advertising I don't feel I am loosing anything. But gaining space.
#22
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Central Alabama
Posts: 884
My magazines, I go throught each one and copy or tear out any project I truly love. The I put those page/pages in a three (3) ring binder in plastic cover pages. Lots of projects in a much smaller space. I get rid of the magazine itself.
#24
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!
Originally Posted by LivelyLady
I had so many magazines saved from over the years that I finally downsized. I went through each mag and tore out ideas/patterns that I wanted to keep and put them in page protectors and then put them in binders. And then I label the binders as applique, quilting motifs, etc.
#25
My friend and I each get a different quilt mag subscription to share. Any patterns we want to make we use the sheet protector - 3 ring binder method. When we are both done with the mags we check mark the cover and take those to our favorite LQS where they are put in a big basket to share with others. I do hang on to the magazines for a while to enjoy reading and looking, but they take up a lot of room to store.
#26
Originally Posted by LivelyLady
I had so many magazines saved from over the years that I finally downsized. I went through each mag and tore out ideas/patterns that I wanted to keep and put them in page protectors and then put them in binders. And then I label the binders as applique, quilting motifs, etc.
#27
Mostly I just give mine away eventually. After they sit on the shelf for a year or so, I figure if I have not used them by now, it is safe to give them away. This board keeps me in more pattern ideas than I can ever get around to working on!!
#29
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: league city, texas
Posts: 619
all my patterns are in sheet protectors, then in three ring binders....i hve the binders separated by type of quilt, then i would like to make a list of the quilt names, and in which binder it is in, then i can actually find the pattern after it goes into the binder......LOL!!!
#30
Originally Posted by Janie Q
I tear out patterns and put them in page protectors in notebooks. If I have a really neat magazine that I don't want to tear up I turn the magazine pages to the pattern I like and then slip the whole magazine into a page protector. Then I can see every pattern just by browsing through my note books. I label each notebook according to categories.
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