Organizing Magazines
frood
the issues, the others I keep the whole magazine only if there are more than
3 things in the magazine that I want to keep. So, all in all, I have about 2
linear feet of magazines. Not an enormous amount, until I go looking for
something. The way my brain works (hey! you can stop laughing now - I know
who you are!) is I can remember if I have a pattern in a magazine, but I
can't remember which one it is in, so I have to look through all of them.
I'm thinking of indexing them. I'd have to update it about once a year, to
keep it current, but that shouldn't be a huge chore.
What I'm wonder is, do any of you index or otherwise organize the magazines
you keep? I did ask a fellow quilter this once, and she laughed so hard she
fell on the floor, but I'm not sure why! ;-)
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Kellie J. Berger
name and issue #.... One of these days i will get around to finishing my
original plan and photocopy the index of each so i can place that in the
back of the sleeve and scan thru for highlights.... I need the front
sometimes to jog my memory, but usually i need the index too....
one of these days....
kellie
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nomorespam
one for me too. I have about the same amount of magazines, but I do
not have them indexed. I enjoy looking thru them all.
Christina
KCK
index here:
http://www.qnm.com/qnmindex/
Perhaps your other magazines have indices online as well?
--
KCK ( in Texas)
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Polly Esther
back to the 50's. Really. I keep a pack of file folder peel off labels. I
stick one on the front of each magazine. If I see a technique or block or
whatever that I may want to find quickly, I write it on the label. This
doesn't solve all of the problems but sometimes it's helpful. As often as
not, my mind changes and I don't have a clue as to what I'd like to find in
a magazine a year or two from now. Sometimes, my mind changes mid-sentence.
My feller who's been my sweetheart for only 49 years admits he's never been
bored. Ummm, now what was the question? Polly
Sharon Harper
vaguely thinking of maybe doing in the future. This from magazines such as
Handmade, and other Oz ones which cover cross-stitch, scrapbooking, etc
which doesn't interest me in the slightest. Any quilt magazines I keep
whole, tucked away in the bookshelf near my desk. Or next to my comfy couch
chair. Or next to the bed.
--
Sharon From Melbourne Australia (Qof DU) (waiting for delivery of a $1200
piano which is in better shape for it's age than I am)
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"Happy to provide a home to any stray fabric, quilts, etc"
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frood
eye, and stick it in my design notebook. However, if there are more than 3
things, I figure that's a good issue, and I keep the whole thing.
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frood
type. It's as hard to find anything in that as it is to just look through
all the magazines! However, that is helpful, and gives me a place to start.
Thank you!
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Wendy
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Sue
periodicals. If you had a kid who needed some typing practice you could kill
two birds with one stone. Or try my way. Stick up notes on the pages that
interest me at the time.
--
Sue
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Sharon Harper
patterns. Worst thing is, I discovered the library stocks back issues of
Handmade and Country Craft (?) and I can borrow 10 at a time. So guess what
I did last week? Yep, borrowed 10 and copied about 3 patterns from each, so
I now have many, many MANY design ideas to keep me going in my dotage.
--
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Polly Esther
do us proud. Polly
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QuiltR1024
I gave most my quilting magazines away a few years ago. I took weeks to
flip pages of the bags and stacks of quilt magazines and pick the magazines
that I wanted to keep. If there wasn't something that I was going to make from
the magazine, I put it a bag to give away. I ended up ginign away 13 bags of
quiltingh magazines and only keeping about 30 magazines. I now only subscribe
to Quilters Newsletter & Quilting Art magazines. I also belong to the NQA
and AQS and get their magazines,
With all the space that I got from getting rid of all these magazines, I
got to store more fabric in their space. <big grin>
Kris ( in northern Virginia)
taria
miss some of my old favorites. Have you been sorry or missed
them at all?
I enjoy magazines but have a tough time parting with them
and they take up a lot of space.
Taria
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writes:
> I would love to do that but fear I would
>miss some of my old favorites. Have you been sorry or missed
>them at all?
><>>>>>>>
Taria,
Nope, I don't miss them at all. I had every Quilters Newsletter, ansd
every other old qyuilting magazine and it was getting overwhelming. I still
have all of my hardback quilt books that have more than enough patterns to
keep me a lifetime. I also like to make up my own patterns and designs & don't
need the books for them.
Kris
AliceW
I set up an Access Database for my magazines. I include magazine name,
issue, year, whether I subscribe or not, when the subscribtion ends,
projects I like, techniques, etc. Then I store them in vertical type
magazine bins on my bookshelf in title and issue order. I do have a "Plan
B" though, I put stickies on pages I REALLY want to remember.
AliceW
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Sharon Harper
Only kidding, hey if you've got the books/magazines why not? Maybe I should
just go and buy more so that you can set up one for me?
--
Sharon From Melbourne Australia (Qof DU)
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The Brown Family
looking for something too.....it's a pain. I do have sticky things on the
pages of the one's I like, but there's quite a few and that really doesn't
help.
Good luck!
Lorraine
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my attention for a "someday" project. I include patterns and pictures
from quilt books and magazines, color scheme ideas (for example, "dark
blues, like a moonlit night"), and design and color ideas from
decorating or art books.
I keep every magazine and book (for now), so it doesn't save any storage
space, but I know where to find what I'm looking for.
So far I have 332 items on the list. Let's see...if I don't add any
more...and if I do 11 a year, it would take me 30 years to make all of
them.
Nothing like dreaming the impossible dream.
Philip
Julia Altshuler
You've brought up something I was about to. I also have lots of magazines.
Figuring out how to index the articles by author or title is easy, but we don't
often need to look up articles like that. Most of us can figure out how to note
a quilt we might be interested in making some day, but there are hundreds of
them, and frankly, when I start a new project, my problem isn't having too few
ideas, it is having too many. I need aids in picking and choosing what to
make. More than that, however, I need aids for when I am stuck. It is hard to
explain, but you all know what I mean. I'll be looking at a bunch of blocks or
at a part of a quilt or at some fabrics, and I'll be asking myself "it needs
something, but what?" I'll know there are ideas in all those books and
magazines, but how do I zero in on what would help?
Let me give a specific example. Let's say I've made some blocks, and I'm
pleased with the way they've come out. Now I have them up on the design board
and am trying to figure out how to lay them out. Straight sets? On point?
With sashing? Alternate plain blocks? Thick sashing? Thin? Thick border with
a block in each corner? Some sort of medallion in the middle with the blocks
surrounding it? Something more unusual? Something asymetrical? I'm sure we've
all seen quilts with some wonderful layout of blocks and thought "I'll have to
remember that," but how do we remember?
What if there were an index for our magazines that listed "interesting blocks
layouts" as a subject? Or better make that "blocks, layouts." You'd have to
think about how someone who didn't do the indexing herself would look it up.
Then you'd be able to find, within minutes, examples to help you visualize and
decide.
Or here's another example. Sometimes I look at a quilt that needs a color. I
can't quite figure out what so I run through them in my mind. I ask the quilt:
blue? green? yellow? brighter? duller? contrasting? matching? Since my stash
is, ahem, sizeable, I can hold up samples of the various colors and zero in on
the right fabric. But I don't usually have too much trouble thinking of
colors. I have a terrible time coming up with shapes and lines. If it isn't a
square or a triangle, I'm out of ideas. I'm only now beginning to learn how to
look at a modern art quilt and see the way the shapes and lines work together to
draw my eye across the quilt.
Not too long ago I was at a friend's looking at her latest installment of the
round robin we're both working on. The quilt obviously needed something in 2
corners. I thought perhaps a quarter mariner's compass in each would look
good. She suggested a picket fence shape across the top. Then we wanted to see
some pictures of picket fences used in quilts, but, even with her shelves filled
with books and magazines, we couldn't look up "picket fence" and get directed to
pictures of quilts using that shape of a row of rectangles with triangular
pointy tops.
I'm not seriously about to index every quilting magazine, but what subject
headings would you use if it could be done? I know we have more than one
librarian on this list who knows what I'm talking about. What would be a useful
way of cataloging quilt magazine articles?
--Lia
Patti
I thought, when my sub. magazine issued an index, that there would be
the end of that particular problem for me; but it isn't. Surprise,
surprise!!
Several folk have mentioned stickies.
If you only have a few 'specials' in each of the magazines, you could do
- as I fully intend to do ... one day - fold over a stick-up onto the
relevant page(s) and write a one or two word 'label' of what is there.
Make it so that the stick-up shows above (or at the side, depending on
how you store them), so that you can see them at a glance!! If you fold
stick-ups across the glue strip they will stick gently to the page and
to themselves. One side is not stuck but that doesn't affect anything
really. Try it. They're quite sturdy.
Other than that, I have my magazines stored in chronological order, in
rigid magazine-type, open box files.
.
In article <SNQCa.109552$t91....@fe04.atl2.webusenet.com>, frood
<Mam...@FangGriffinsFlight.com> writes
>I have about 2 years worth of magazines. One of them, Quiltmaker, I have all
>the issues, the others I keep the whole magazine only if there are more than
>3 things in the magazine that I want to keep. So, all in all, I have about 2
>linear feet of magazines. Not an enormous amount, until I go looking for
>something. The way my brain works (hey! you can stop laughing now - I know
>who you are!) is I can remember if I have a pattern in a magazine, but I
>can't remember which one it is in, so I have to look through all of them.
>
>I'm thinking of indexing them. I'd have to update it about once a year, to
>keep it current, but that shouldn't be a huge chore.
>
>What I'm wonder is, do any of you index or otherwise organize the magazines
>you keep? I did ask a fellow quilter this once, and she laughed so hard she
>fell on the floor, but I'm not sure why! ;-)
>
--
Best Regards
pat on the hill
Patti
.
In article <bbgs1q$u42$1...@slb4.atl.mindspring.net>, Polly Esther
<miste...@garbage.mindspring.com> writes
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frood
Combinations; Asian Influences; Border Designs.
Tell you what, I'll come over and bring my magazines. We can work on this
project together. Shouldn't take more than a week. We can alternate cooking
duties, and when you're not looking, I'm gonna raid that "sizeable" stash of
yours! ;-)
--
Wendy
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Pat in Virginia
laughed. Here's why: I bought a CD called "Soft Expressions" at
Nancy's LQS. This is an organizer program for quilters. I've
never gotten around to using it!! Sorry it took so long to stop
laughing and answer you.
PAT in VA/USA
The Brown Family
mine.....you're lucky Alice!
Lorraine
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my taste, but hey, I quilt, get called when dinner is on the table, and then
go back to quilting. Not a bad trade off!
AliceW
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everything, so I won't be fussy. LOL Actually, I can't complain. Since
my DH retired, I haven't washed a dish. I still cook, but he cleans up.
Very well, too. Nancycog in MD
DebsPrintOnIt
Debra in Idaho
Marcella Tracy Peek
works but this is what I am doing.
I found, for me, that magazines put in nice little boxes on the
bookshelf tend to stay there and not get looked at. When I think of it,
I then think...oh, I don't want to dig through all those and so I don't.
Well, what good does the collection do me then?
So...I am cutting up my magazines. I purchased some big three ring
notebooks and a couple boxes of plastic sheet protectors at Costco. I
have piles of "beginner quilts", "applique quilts", "tips", "quilting
ideas", "ones I just love to look at", and for various techniques -
binding, paper piecing etc.; and I'm sure the catagories will grow as I
keep going. Articles will be put in the sheet protectors and then in
labeled sections in the notebook.
It worked really well for all my family fun magazines with their tons of
craft ideas and such. I'm hoping it works just as well for the quilting
stuff as I have run out of room for more boxes of magazines that I don't
look at :-)
marcella
Sue
different theme to work on. I'm finding the old magazines a great resource
for my blocks. Couldn't part with my collection but it does take up a bunch
of space in my room.
--
Sue
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AliceW
when he wants to and very often changes his mind about what we had
previously decided we would have for dinner. Drove me crazy. So, since he
is the one setting the schedule and the menu, he cooks. I set the table and
clear it after dinner. He is in charge of the dishwasher. I feed all the
critters. I maintain the inside of the house, he does the outside. He does
the laundry, I do the shopping and the financial chores. Works well for us.
Alice W
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> That's what we do in our household. We have a rule, if I cook, he
> does the dishes and vice versa. Since he doesn't like to cook and
> loves my cooking, I rarely wash dishes. Clearning the kitchen is
> altogether another matter. His idea of cleaning the counters is a
> quick swipe with a sponge. Every Sunday I clear everything off the
> counters and give them a real cleaning. Same with the stove.
>
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Sandy Foster
"Polly Esther" <miste...@garbage.mindspring.com> wrote:
That's for sure! Even QNM's web site says "indexes" instead of "indices"!
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<AaRCa.108086$cO3.7...@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
"KCK" <kck...@DOGatt.net> wrote:
> If you have issues of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, you can download an
> index here:
> http://www.qnm.com/qnmindex/
>
> Perhaps your other magazines have indices online as well?
Kevin, those online indices are one reason why I keep all of my QNM
issues! :) The only problem is that they aren't necessarily indexed the
way I'd do it if I wanted to do it myself. Oh well -- it's better than
nothing! :)
Roberta Zollner
least know if one is missing. When I want to find something in QNM, they
have a perfectly good index on their website. Maybe the others do too?
Roberta in D
"frood" <Mam...@FangGriffinsFlight.com> wrote in message
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> I have about 2 years worth of magazines. One of them, Quiltmaker, I have
all
> the issues, the others I keep the whole magazine only if there are more
than
> 3 things in the magazine that I want to keep. So, all in all, I have about
2
> linear feet of magazines. Not an enormous amount, until I go looking for
> something. The way my brain works (hey! you can stop laughing now - I know
> who you are!) is I can remember if I have a pattern in a magazine, but I
> can't remember which one it is in, so I have to look through all of them.
>
> I'm thinking of indexing them. I'd have to update it about once a year, to
> keep it current, but that shouldn't be a huge chore.
>
> What I'm wonder is, do any of you index or otherwise organize the
magazines
> you keep? I did ask a fellow quilter this once, and she laughed so hard
she
> fell on the floor, but I'm not sure why! ;-)
>
> --
> Wendy, with back muscles spasms, unable to do much tonight
Krysia Thompson
magazines organized? thei sit on two big shelves. that's it.
everything has failed so far as far as order goes, but it's not
so bad...you pick up a mag and you find new things all the time
;))
Krysia
K.T. - starannie opakowana
Pat in Virginia
enlarging.
PAT
frood wrote:
>
> Wow! Unfortunately, each year's index is 4 pages long, and in really small
> type. It's as hard to find anything in that as it is to just look through
> all the magazines! However, that is helpful, and gives me a place to start.
> Thank you!
>
> "KCK" <kck...@DOGatt.net> wrote in message
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Elena
I don't have the magazine stash a lot of others have, but I have mine
divided into Inspirations, and Patterns.
Inspirations is just pictures I liked. I figure if I end up seeing the same
kind of pictures, I ought to figure out how to make one. :)
The other binder is going to be divided soon. I have quilting motifs I
liked mixed in with actual quilt patterns. That would probably be my two
biggest sections.
I too, find that if I have put a magazine upright in the middle of the
books, I never look at it again. Slowly I'm ripping into those as I find
them. Any magazines I find, and look thru and don't find anything to rip
out get taken to the guild for sale benefitting the guild's library. We are
trying to save up for a real library cart. $$$$$$$ apparently.
Elena
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D&D
2002-Dec2003
I use sticky notes to mark the pages and on some covers I have stuck
stickers on them and written the possible projects on them.
I keep the pages from magazines in pages protectors in labled suspension
files in the filing cabinet.
Then I'm like Sharon and have a pile next to the bed, and one next to my
cosy chair and in the new family room [its north facing to catch the sun and
warm on a winters day] and a few a getting into the new sewing room next
door.
Dee in Oz
"Polly Esther" < wrote in message news:bbgn3f$5p8
> Only barely, Wendy. My magazine collection can't be controlled. And it
goes
> back to the 50's. Really. I keep a pack of file folder peel off labels. I
> stick one on the front of each magazine. If I see a technique or block or
> whatever that I may want to find quickly, I write it on the label. This
> doesn't solve all of the problems but sometimes it's helpful. As often as
> not, my mind changes and I don't have a clue as to what I'd like to find
in
> a magazine a year or two from now. Sometimes, my mind changes
mid-sentence.
> My feller who's been my sweetheart for only 49 years admits he's never
been
> bored. Ummm, now what was the question? Polly
>
>
>
>
Julia Altshuler
>
> This is exactly the kind of index I mean! I'd use categories like Color
> Combinations; Asian Influences; Border Designs.
>
> Tell you what, I'll come over and bring my magazines. We can work on this
> project together. Shouldn't take more than a week. We can alternate cooking
> duties, and when you're not looking, I'm gonna raid that "sizeable" stash of
> yours! ;-)
>
> --
This is going to take more than a week. I have a full collection of Quilter's
Newsletter Magazine going back to the early 80s, American Quilter (AQS) going
back as far, Quilting Arts and several odd magazines without a regular
subscription. That's hundreds of magazines.
First we need to make sure we're not duplicating effort. Has anyone at the New
England Quilt Museum undertaken a project of this sort? At AQS? Is there a
database already? And while we're at it, why catalog only my magazines and
yours? Why not do them all? How about the Froodlia Database Index of Quilting
and Needle Work Periodicals and Publications? (I gave you top billing.
Liafrood sounded even sillier.)
The next step would be choosing the right software. I don't know what's
available off the top of my head, but we could do some research. Then we'd have
to think about a market for all our hard work which would likely stop us in our
tracks. Unless we got a grant, not enough people would pay for the CD-ROM to
make it worth our while. That's not to say a lot of quilters wouldn't find it
useful, just not useful enough to support the effort. This isn't exactly the
sort of thing that Nexus Lexus is going to buy.
All the same, I love quilting, and I love cataloging, and I love a challenge.
Who could blame me for going through a single magazine, chosen at random
(American Quilter, spring 2003), and paging through it looking for useful
subject headings? The following are from that magazine:
1930s design style
1940s design style
9-11 attacks as design theme
African-American quilters
alternate plain block for layout
applique border
applique border, fussy cut
bar mitzvah quilt
basket blocks
batik, how-to
batik, illustration
Bible inspiration
border ideas (subheading: lattice)
burning bush as design element
computer software as design aid
computer piracy
computer viruses
dark neutral colors with very little light*
design elements (subheadings: hibiscus, teacups, teatowels, etc.)
drawing, as aid in design
embroidery
garment making as influence
hanging sleeve, how-to
hibiscus flowers as design element
influences on quilting (subheadings: garment making, painting)
Japanese quiltmakers
Jewish stars
Jewish themes
kimono silks
landscape
lattice as border
layouts for traditional block designs (subheading: alternate plain block)
light and shadow
lighthouses
non-traditional quilting materials (sub heading: wood)
painting as influence
perspective
photographs, how to use as design aid
rubber stamping
signature quilt
stained glass technique, how-to
sunshine and shadow
teacups as design element
teatowels as design elements
trapunto
trees as design element
twin towers aflame as design element
watercolor technique
window treatments
Of these, the one that I'd find most useful is the one that's hardest to find a
word for. That's the one on dark neutral colors with very little light. I
wouldn't catalog every quilt that used green in it because there would be so
many that it wouldn't end up being useful. I do, however, often think of that
unusual color scheme made up of neutrals. I wouldn't mind being able to look up
that color scheme and find several examples of it, but I'm sure I don't have the
right words for it.
--Lia
Johanna Gibson
I began keeping track of the fabric purchases I made about 3 years
ago - where it was purchased from (retailer) the amount, the price,
the manufacturer, the amount of fabric and price. I also include a
brief description of the fabric. This makes it easy to find that
"starry blue" fabric I bought in March of 2002.
Now that I'm used to it, I'm starting to inventory my magazines:
title, volume, number and contents (not only author and name of
project but brief description). I do all this in Microsoft Word, and
later I can enter "star" in the find box, and it will find the
projects that I described as containing stars. It really is quite
simple and effective.
(Should I mention that I have a document that contains all of my
quilting books.?)
-- Jo in Scotland
Johanna Gibson
I keep my magazines in the IKEA wooden magazine holders (£3 each)
and each contains a certain magazine & year. Then I keep about 2 or 3
beside the bed for late reading - not always the most recent few. This
way I keep in touch with my collection. When I feel I have remembered
all the projects in the current magazines by the bed, I go and get a
different assortment of 2 or 3!
Do I sound horribly organized?
-- Jo in Scotland
Lisa Ellis
gave up as it was just to time consuming. It is something I still should do.
Anyway, I am amazed at the discussion regarding indexing; it sounds like so much
work...
If I really like an idea, I'll usually remember where I saw it. If I can't
remember, I start going through the books and magazines. I either find what I am
looking for, or get distracted. It works for me.
lisae
frood
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Wendy
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Ruth in Happy Camp
only the magazines I subscribe to, using Excel. I never READ those files,
but making them keeps me busy for hours on end.
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Ruth in Happy Camp
"frood" <Mam...@FangGriffinsFlight.com> wrote in message
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> I have about 2 years worth of magazines. One of them, Quiltmaker, I have
all
> the issues, the others I keep the whole magazine only if there are more
than
> 3 things in the magazine that I want to keep. So, all in all, I have about
2
> linear feet of magazines. Not an enormous amount, until I go looking for
> something. The way my brain works (hey! you can stop laughing now - I know
> who you are!) is I can remember if I have a pattern in a magazine, but I
> can't remember which one it is in, so I have to look through all of them.
>
> I'm thinking of indexing them. I'd have to update it about once a year, to
> keep it current, but that shouldn't be a huge chore.
>
> What I'm wonder is, do any of you index or otherwise organize the
magazines
> you keep? I did ask a fellow quilter this once, and she laughed so hard
she
> fell on the floor, but I'm not sure why! ;-)
>
> --
> Wendy, with back muscles spasms, unable to do much tonight
SandySmth
quilting magazine collection reaches back a couple of decades or so and is much
too big! I've spent this rainy day scanning through some of them, tearing out
what I want to keep. I'll recycle the remains of those I've torn apart and file
what I want to keep. I don't think I'll get rid of my QNM collection, which is
all in notebooks.
Sandy
in Chapel Hill, NC
"frood" <Mam...@FangGriffinsFlight.com> wrote:
> I have about 2 years worth of magazines. One of them, Quiltmaker, I have
all
> the issues, the others I keep the whole magazine only if there are more
than
> 3 things in the magazine that I want to keep. So, all in all, I have about
2
> linear feet of magazines. Not an enormous amount, until I go looking for
> something. The way my brain works (hey! you can stop laughing now - I know
> who you are!) is I can remember if I have a pattern in a magazine, but I
> can't remember which one it is in, so I have to look through all of them.
>
> I'm thinking of indexing them. I'd have to update it about once a year, to
> keep it current, but that shouldn't be a huge chore.
>
> What I'm wonder is, do any of you index or otherwise organize the
magazines
> you keep? I did ask a fellow quilter this once, and she laughed so hard
she
> fell on the floor, but I'm not sure why! ;-)
>
> --
> Wendy, with back muscles spasms, unable to do much tonight
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