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Ward wrote:
Hi Dee, I get a little crazy with my patterns. After I cut apart the tissue I fold each piece into a little package with the pattern number showing. I pile them from #1 up, unfold the instruction sheet, place the folded pattern tissues inside, and they all fit nicely back into the envelope. I store them in pattern number order by pattern company. As if that's not crazy enough, before putting the pattern away, I scan the front and back of the envelope. That gets printed out, put inside a plastic sheet protector and then inside a 3-ring binder. I have the photo copies separated by pattern company too. I know, it's twisted, but I do love sitting with a hot cup of coffee, flipping through my "pattern" book. When I decide to sew something I take the scanned image of the envelope with me to the fabric store. The patterns are stores in those blue cardboard boxes you can get in the Notions department. I write the pattern company name on the outside of the box. Once I have selected the pattern I want from my 3-ring binder, I just pull down the correct box, flip through to the pattern number, and pull it out ... just like the fabric stores. Happy sewing. Liz Liz! Oh, I do take my hat off to you! I *love* your storage method and the organisation you have achieved with your patterns! It's something I might work toward myself, since all my patterns are squished together in boxes that are too small for them. That is, the patterns have outgrown the boxes... For everyone's information, the flat boxes that copy paper comes in (Reflex brand is the one I use) will fit two rows of patterns perfectly when they're placed on their sides. Three rows when placed upright, but then the lid won't fit on. Which might or might not matter... The boxes I mean are the ones with a footprint the size of an A3 pice of paper, not the smaller, taller ones with an A4 footprint. I know what I mean... Do you? ;-D -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, Australia |
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I do what Barbara does, but my patterns are organized by size.
Categories should probably be No way in H*** Gosh, did this ever really fit me? If I am willing to do a little altering Looks like a tent, must fit liz young HAHAHAHAHAHAHA - sounds like my clothes closet! Sharon |
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So after doing all this, when do you find time to sew???? Ha Ha
Barbara in FL & SC set it up correctly from the start. I get a little crazy with my patterns. |
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For a Christmas gift my Mother gave me a week of organization
help...(she has seen my basement - mounded with piles of sewing stuff!) and the other day we tackled the patterns first. I admit, I have sometimes rushed from one project to the next without putting the pattern back in the envelope...so we had to sort hundreds of patterns by number and then I ironed all the orphan pieces we found in the basement crumpled in heaps or rumpled in bags etc..... and tried to match them back up with their envelopes. I too iron and refold with the pattern make and # showing (when I take the time). After that, we didn't need the patterns sorted by number anymore so we sorted by style/theme and put in clear plastic bins...12 in all! The 15 Qt Sterilite work perfectly...with oversize such as Stretch & Sew fitting flat in a separate one. Joy On 10 Jan 2005 16:56:59 GMT, ospam (DKiely33) wrote: What is the best way to store patterns that have already been used, cut and will be used again? I'm going to be setting up a little sewing area and would like to know how to set it up correctly from the start. Would an art store be useful for storage options? Thanks, Dee |
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"BEI Design" wrote in message ... "Ward" wrote in message groups.com... I get a little crazy with my patterns. snip That has to be the *year's* biggest understatement! ;-) (I have to admit a secret admiration, though.) -- Beverly delete no spam and .invalid to reply It's worse then I let on. I was buying an extra 1/8 yard of fabric just so I could organize my stash. In the store I'd write down all the information from the end of the bolt and the yardage amounts onto index cards. Then I'd go home, cut a swatch off the extra yardage, and staple it to the card. Just in case I wanted to match the fabric with something else, I'd cut about a 4 inch square, clean finish the edges with the serger, put a button hole in the corner, and then stick it on one of those big snap-apart binder rings you get in the office supply store. When I'd go shopping at fabric sales, I'd snap apart the ring, snap it closed onto my handbag strap, and use it to compare fabrics / colors at the sale. Before putting away the new fabric I'd make a copy of the info on the index card and pin it to the edge of the fabric so I wouldn't forget the washing instructions, etc. I finally dropped the index cards and the fabric swatch habits, but I still tag the fabric before putting it away and scan the patterns I buy. I keep the index cards around as a reminded to remain in control. I'm a really addicted to this stuff. |
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I store my patterns in those plastic stackable boxes you can find in any
discount store. I sort them by style; for example, skirts in one box, stretch knits only patterns in another. Over the years I've had to subdivide the categories. Dresses with waistline seams go in one box, those without a waist seam in another. I put a 3 x 5 card in the box with the category name placed so it can be easily visible through the plastic. After forty years of sewing I have an embarrassing number of patterns and this works for me. Fran |
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"Trish Brown" wrote in message Liz! Oh, I do take my hat off to you! I *love* your storage method and the organisation you have achieved with your patterns! It's something I might work toward myself, since all my patterns are squished together in boxes that are too small for them. That is, the patterns have outgrown the boxes... For everyone's information, the flat boxes that copy paper comes in (Reflex brand is the one I use) will fit two rows of patterns perfectly when they're placed on their sides. Three rows when placed upright, but then the lid won't fit on. Which might or might not matter... The boxes I mean are the ones with a footprint the size of an A3 pice of paper, not the smaller, taller ones with an A4 footprint. I know what I mean... Do you? ;-D -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, Australia Hi Trish, It took me almost a month when I first decided to do this project. I had to fit in my scanning time with work, kids, etc. It all started as a way of leaning how to use the new scanner and not as a way to organizing my patterns. It just became a monster after I discovered I could enlarge the scanned envelope which made reading the tiny print easier. The plastic sheet protectors came about when I discovered the holes I was punching into the scans were covering some of the information from the back of the envelope. If I buy a pattern in various sizes I note that on the scan so I don't buy the pattern again. That's another bad habit. If the pattern is a classic design, and on sale, I buy it in all the available sizes. Liz |
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"Ward" wrote in message groups.com... snip Oooooowwwww, make it stop! ;- -- Beverly delete no spam and .invalid to reply |
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When first using a pattern, I cut apart any pattern pieces that are printed on
a single sheet. Then, I refold all pieces ...sized to the pattern envelope....with the name and part of the piece on the outside.... Thus......all pattern pieces are refolded and slipped inside the printed directions. Then, all pieces are put inside the envelope. For those patterns where that would make it much too bulky to fit inside the envelope, I place everything in a plastic bag with the picture envelope showing. It may seem like a lot of work, but it is especially convenient when patterns are used again. All one has to do is sort through the folded pieces for the needed ones. As for storage......I use those pattern storage boxes (cardboard) that I get from fabric stores (JoAnne, Hancock). I use one for each category......dolls and toys..... garments and accessories. I don't list the patterns on the outside of the box.....only the categories. I enjoy, when selecting a pattern to use, going through all the patterns in a box...refreshes my memory....and I can think about the good time sewing and the results of that sewing experience..... Good memories and bad....G...... |
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