Re: Getting Organized

In article <it6dnZoktJrkasXZRVn-hA@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Boca Jan" <poo_de_doo at removeyahoo.com> wrote:

Went to Office Depot today (my 2nd favorite store) and bought some
notebooks, tab index dividers, *** protectors, squishie envelopes and
chocolate, with the intentions of taking all my printed patterns that I got
off the internet and BOM directions and organize them. I now have piles of
printed paper on my work surface and thought this was a good idea.

Well, as we all know, good ideas sometimes never materialize. Has anyone
done this? Of course someone has, there are so many organized people out
there. The big thing is - If I file them by pattern, I will never be able to
find anything because I don't know the names of the patterns until I see
them.

HELP!

I sort of do this.... mostly I am working with things I have ripped out
of magazines.

I divide my notebook into sections (well, notebooks but you get the
idea) Hand work, applique, pieced, quilting designs (for the quilting
itself), other items (for tote bags, table runners and other things that
aren't strictly quilts), techniques (for how to articles), articles (on
random quilting subjects) and inspiration (for pictures of pretty quilts
that I love)

That way, if I know I want to make a scrappy pieced something I can just
browse through the pieced section until something "clicks".

You could further divide the quilt patterns into - quick projects,
mysteries, scrap projects, seasonal, magnum opus, etc ;-)

marcella
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