How do you store your patterns
#61
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Join Date: May 2009
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There are the patterns I buy and the patterns I get off the internet or from magazines.
PURCHASED: In pattern storage boxes (purchased at JoAnns) separated by type - applique, patchwork, holiday, wall hangings (I consider these decor), crafts
INTERNET: I print free patterns, convert to PDF; save the PDF on my computer and file the paper version in my desk drawer.
MAGAZINES: If downloaded from the website of a magazine or cut out from a magazine, I do the above.
PURCHASED: In pattern storage boxes (purchased at JoAnns) separated by type - applique, patchwork, holiday, wall hangings (I consider these decor), crafts
INTERNET: I print free patterns, convert to PDF; save the PDF on my computer and file the paper version in my desk drawer.
MAGAZINES: If downloaded from the website of a magazine or cut out from a magazine, I do the above.
#66
Originally Posted by pugmom
I am acquiring a bunch of patterns and have not come up with the best way to store them so that I can find them etc. Any ideas and how do you all store your patterns?
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#67
If they are from magazines I put them in sheet protectors and then into binders. Patterns from the internet I just save in folders. Patterns from the quilt store (half sheet size) I put into plastic shoe boxes (sort of organized by type) and them put the shoe boxes into a drawer of the old dresser that I turned into an ironing station with storage.
#68
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Southeast Michigan
Posts: 339
I took advantage of a couple plastic shoe boxes and put the smaller patterns that are in plastic ziplocks in them, standing upright for easy viewing and sorted by type. The larger ones that I cut from quilting magazines I put in page protectors and stuck them in notebooks, again sorted by type. My thoughts on organizing them was to be able to see them easily when I wanted to find one.
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