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Organizing your magazine charts

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I just wondered if anyone had any good systems for organizing their magazine charts? Mine are not very well organized at the moment! :oops:
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my leaflets i keep stacked on a shelf but in order by theme..my magazines i keep in order by month and name..also stacked..not very good but works.
i wish i had time to make some sort of spreadsheet..lol
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I take all the charts I like out of the magazines and then file them in plastic wallets in a lever arch file in sections, ie cards, animals, alphabets and so on. Then if I want something specific I can find it easily.
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Managed my UK cross stitch mags fairly easily. Plastic pockets with themes in each. However my foreign mags are impossible as they put some charts in the mag an some on a huge centre folded chart so impossible to segregate out. This means that my UK things are easy to browse through but the foreign ones are more time consuming. Saying that I really enjoy searching for something for others as I then see charts that I have forgotten about.

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I don't really cut in my magazines or mark in them. I have them sorted by magazine and then by month/year. Also, when I want to stitch something out of my magazines, I just take a copy of the pattern to work on.
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Chris wrote me a program for organising my charts. I list name, magazine, page numer, designer, series, notes and keywords. I even have the option of listing what I need.
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I ue the disorganised chaos method. I take the charts that i want out of the magazine and put them in platic folders. I have about 7 folders now and have no idea what''s in each so when I want something i have to flip through them all...thats why i call it the disorganised chaos method.

The basic idea was to create space and compact dowm all the stuff and that worked well by saving what i want but as for finding it at a later date, well that involves alot of page turning but thats okay because it reminds me of what i have!
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My stash is generally organised, but I'm totally unorganised with my magazines.
They are just in a pile on a shelf. Not even in numerical order. :oops:

I keep thinking I'll get to it and sort them, but so far, I haven't.
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My stash of kits, fabrics, floss, and frames are all very organized. My charts... eh... not so much. My newest ones, as in the ones I currently have subscriptions to are in numerical order. The magazines I've inherited or bought on ebay are a little less than neat. Though I did find out I have 2 of Teresa Wentzler's carousel horses that I didn't know I had.

Maybe I need to create a program similar to what Angel's fiance made for her.
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DraconicWench wrote:Maybe I need to create a program similar to what Angel's fiance made for her.
Yes she is a very lucky girl :)
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Like Sarah I take charts out of mags, then keep them in a folder -- in my case one of those expandable ones, like a harmonica -- under heading like Flowers or Geometric. I don't keep a record of what's in there, but then I rather enjoying going through everything in a particular section when looking for a design :-)
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Thanks for your help with this. I like Mabel and Sarah's system of putting them in folders under headings. I think I will go along with that one. One folder on my shopping list for the weekend! :)
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I have started a spreadsheet to track patterns, fabrics, threads, beads, buttons for each pattern so I know what is needed and what has already been purchased. I am doing this because each time i bought a pattern I bought fabric, thread and notions.
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Instead of actually doing taxes today as planned, it seemed like a good idea to play around with Google Docs.

I came up with a spread sheet for obsessive-compulsive stitchers who want to catalog every chart they got. In my case, it's enough to open a library! I wish I had used this with every new mag and leaflet I ever got, cause there are lots of gems I know I have and would love to work on, but where oh where are they???

Here's the link:

https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?hl ... l=en#gid=0

You can save a copy of this spreadsheet and change it any way you want. You can sort alphabetically to locate a pattern by name or use the find-replace feature to locate a specific subject (just don't put anything in the replace field). Hope this link works and is helpful for somebody...
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