Organizing Charts |
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From: CameoRoze Right now I store my charts by subject and/or designer in binders using either the 3-ring plastic holders or the vinyl sleeves, depending on need. I can slip specialty threads and charms in the sleeves with the charts. Leisure Arts charts have their own binder since they are oversized. The charts there are organized by subject within that big binder. However, I am considering going to a file cabinet on these if I can convince myself that the charts will remain in good condition.
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From: Kristyne Jouwsma My charts are stored in great big 3 ring binders. I've got them divided up by type (i.e. birds, baby stuff, animals, samplers, etc.). I'm in the process of trying to get all my charts entered in a database on my computer but that's gonna take awhile since I don't have much time to devote to that particular project.
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From: Lyn I have my charts in separate folders sorted by catagory, i.e. baby designs, flowers, animals, humor, etc. The only leaflets I don't have in the boxes are the ones from Leisure Arts that are in their own binder.
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From: Linda J Flickinger I have most things in 3-ring binders. I buy from Office Max the plastic adaptors so I can put magazines and books in binders. I also have the plastic protectors for charts so I don't have to punch holes. Then I have two large plastic file containers with over-flow. And current favorites sit on one of my craft tables. I do forget what I have and about twice a year I go through everything and give away things I no longer need/use.
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From: Mary I store all of my charts and kits in 3-ring binders. I use the plastic sheet holders for the oversized pamplets like Leisure Arts, and the hard plastic magazine holders for those that are normal sized and have more than a single page. The little charts or small kits go in plastic sheet protectors that have an overlapping top so things don't fall out. For the Omnibooks and other thick chart books I use the sheet protectors that are designed to accomodate 50 pages.
After all of this, I organize then by type. For instance, I have Kitchen Charts, ABC's and Samplers, Specific Holidays,
General Seasonal, Home Decor which is further divided into flowers, nature scenes, country scenes and on and on and on. I also have a section for favored designers.
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From: Debbie Y My favorite method of storing charts is to stick thm all on a bookshelf. This way I have the pleasure of admiring *all* of them again whenever I'm looking for a particular one.
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From: "Drisana Amineh Ayieshia" I have [my charts] in a trunk and are in order of doing them and sometimes I just take them out and go through them and find things I forgot I had.
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From: Diantha I have my charts and fabric in big Rubbermaid containers. I have one for patterns and one for fabric. I love them. They snap close so the little fingers in my house cannot get into them. And They stack nicely in a corner or will fit under the desks if I'm trying to hide them from company. I do not have them in any order in there, they are just stacked.
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From: Linda Boudreau I store my leaflets in the three ring see through sheets protectors and if I do a collection such as Hummels or Lavender and Lace store these in a file box so that I know I have the collection where I want it.
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From: KMC528 File cabinets. Plain old office variety.
I put the word out among friends and got two used four-drawer ones for $10 each. They were badly battered and in need of a paint job. I have the paint, I even have the stencils to pretty them up, I just haven't yet persuaded myself that painting is more important than stitching. This house doesn't have room for them in the house, so they're hiding in the basement, which makes it even easier to ignore that chore.
Within the cabinets, I have things sorted out in hanging folders by topic.
Since one of the file cabinets is legal size, I can even toss tubes of fabric in the hanging folders, sorted by count.
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From: Suz W I store my chart in a couple of drawers of a filing cabinet. I organize them around subject matter/type of project. I use the hanging folders and just fill out the little tab with my subject designation. Some of my subject titles would only make sense to me but that's the beauty of the system.
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From: Susan I store my patterns according to subject in a hanging file folder tote and an accordian file (I used what I had).
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From: Monica Sudds All of my charts are Beakers charts and stored on CD. If I want one, I just print it. I like the way our charts are printed too. They are separate pages with the numbers across the bottom an down the side so they are easy to xerox and you only have to take one section at a time out of the plastic. We print them on a very heavy slick magazine type stock, so if something did get spilled on it, it could be wiped off with a damp cloth if you didn't let it sit too long.
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From: CameoRoze I often store the freebie charts I find online digitally. I have a separate directory on my computer for cross-stitch, and within that several subdirectories. One of the subdirectories is for charts. This is then divided into subdirectories by Designer and/or subject (depending on what makes the most sense to me). Designers that have new charts each month, like Donna Vermillion Giampa and Virginia Douglas, have their own directories. But the Holidays directory is divided into Valentines, Christmas, Halloween, etc.
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From: Suz W For magazine patterns ... A few years ago I thinned them out. If there was only one pattern in the whole mag that I liked I clipped it and put it in my filing system - if there were many I kept the mag and put a post-it on the front detailing the
patterns inside.
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From: Lyn I have my subscription magazines in large plastic storage bags by title and all of it in a couple of banker's boxes.
I also store my fabric and hard cover books in the banker's boxes.
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From: Diantha I keep my mags in a bushel basket by the recliner so I can browse through them while DH is watching the history channel.
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From: Drisana Amineh Ayieshia My books use to be in a floor to ceiling bookcase but [snip] are [now] in several trunks with my sewing stash. [snip] If you are going to put them in sleeves, please make sure its acid free like the stuff you put comic books in for it will keep them nicer longer.
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From: Sarra Wright I keep my pattern stash in a milk [crate] using hanging file folders. I have the patterns divided into categories by subject or designer. I'm saving up to get a "real" file cabinet
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From: Diantha I keep my mags in a bushel basket by the recliner so I can browse through them while DH is watching the history channel.
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From: CameoRoze I store my magazines alphabetically by title, then by date in those cardboard magazine holders. For magazines where I have a "set" -- for example, I subscribe to The Stitchery, so have more of them -- they get their own box(es). These magazines are then stored on a shelf in the closet of my Studio. The books about cross-stitch are right next to the boxes.
But since I have lots of books on lots of crafts, I store them by category on the shelves: cross-stitch together, sewing together, etc.
I also have quite a collection of craft-related catalogs. These, too, are stored in the cardboard magazine holders, alphabetically by name of catalog. The catalogs are separated in three categories, "General", "Sewing and Crafts" and "Stitchery". As new catalogs come in, I date the cover, pull the old ones and slip in the new ones (well ..... with a few exceptions. I can't bear to throw out my old Nordic Needle or The Stitchery catalogs! Too much valuable reference information there!).
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From: Kathy Wojcik I have two subscriptions which I keep them in plastic magazine holders. I have one extra holder for leaflets. I have loose charts in a manila envelope.
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Stitcher's Organizer
I am in the process of developing a data base for them. I am taking an Access class at the local Community College and we have to develop a database with queries, forms and reports for our class project. It has taken awhile but seems to be a good database (the teacher asked if she could have a copy since she is also a stitcher [maybe I will get an A!]). The hard part was figuring out how I wanted to use it and therefore how to input the data. Now the awful part comes--data entry!
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From: Mary I have all of them entered in my computer and keep a tiny list in my wallet so I won't accidentally buy one more than once. I also have this database notated so I don't forget for whom I intended the finished chart.
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