Re: [h-cost] cataloging the #$%#^ growing pile O patterns so I don't buy them more than once...

2006-09-17 Thread Elizabeth Young
cahuff wrote: What do y'all use (besides the tattered paper list method) to keep track of your patterns? I don't have them cataloged; they are sorted into banker's boxes under my own system. Historical patterns have their own box - both patterns I've drafted and ones I've bought. Folkwear

Re: [h-cost] cataloging the #$%#^ growing pile O patterns so I don't buy them more than once...

2006-09-16 Thread Lavolta Press
What do y'all use (besides the tattered paper list method) to keep track of your patterns? Nothing whatever. I own several thousand books, over a thousand of which are on costuming; hundreds of fashion magazines; and hundreds of patterns. I started out with my books on the shelves in

Re: [h-cost] cataloging the #$%#^ growing pile O patterns so I don't buy them more than once...

2006-09-16 Thread Dawn
cahuff wrote: What do y'all use (besides the tattered paper list method) to keep track of your patterns? I have a few hundred patterns. (Yikes!) They're all in cardboard pattern boxes covered in pretty fabric. I put a sticker on them with MFR and number range. For example B 2145-2290 has