Some of the authors have changed publishers, some 3 times, so when I will start with That Patchwork Place/Martingale and any author by them will have all of their books regardless of publisher all together. Then I will do C&T, and then the smaller categories. This is tonight's project.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
I found them!!!!
The elusive combo was in the very last group of books, back in the tightest hard to get to corner of the bottom shelf. I decided to sort through the last group before my brother and I pick up supper for my parents and us. I am SO HAPPY the hunt is over, and I am going to have the books categorized from now on. I was going to do publisher, and then alphabetical by title. I have changed my mind and am going to do publisher, then alphabetical by author. 
Some of the authors have changed publishers, some 3 times, so when I will start with That Patchwork Place/Martingale and any author by them will have all of their books regardless of publisher all together. Then I will do C&T, and then the smaller categories. This is tonight's project.
Some of the authors have changed publishers, some 3 times, so when I will start with That Patchwork Place/Martingale and any author by them will have all of their books regardless of publisher all together. Then I will do C&T, and then the smaller categories. This is tonight's project.
Yeah!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on finding your "lost" stuff! That is most maddening when it goes hiding, sometimes for me it's relatively in plain view!
ReplyDeleteI haven't tackled listing books and patterns; are you going to use Excel?
Vicky F
Yes, congrats on finding your stuff. But by publisher? Why? Doesn't that just fly in the face of Mrs. Marsters the school librarian who taught us to shelve alphabetically by author? :-)
ReplyDeleteI have my books separated by technique - and not alpha organized in any way. I've downsized the library considerably (that'll happen when you move every three years or so), so I'm confident that when I need a specific paper foundation piecing book or traditional pattern book I'll be able to lay my hands on what I want fairly easily.
Glad you found the book. My books are just in a big pile.I think I need to do a bit of organizing too.
ReplyDeleteHI Wanda,
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you found your book- there is nothing that makes me crazier than when I know that I have something but can't lay my hands on it. I am a random organizer so it would be very difficult for someone else to find what I was looking for- I do have my magazines organized by magazine names and some are even organized by year. However my quilt books are not so organised - I do try and have them put together by technique and by author but they don't stay that way unfortunately..
Some of it is due to the fact I have a lot more books and patterns than I used to... Oh the challenges of being a collector...
Have fun organizing _ I seem to remember that you are very systematic so I am sure you will have together in no time.
Regards,
Anna
As my dad says, it's always in the last place you think of looking...haha
ReplyDeleteI have mine in my bookshelves, but certainly not in any particular order. I mis-laid one in the other section of shelves not too long ago, and I hunted and hunted and hunted....
I found it when I was looking for a cookbook......*last place I'd look*
So glad you found your book and templates. It is such a relief to find something like that. I know that if I didn't find it, it would continually bother me until they were located. Enjoy supper!
ReplyDeleteglad you were able to find your books. Now my quilting books in the sewing room are not in any particular order and really need to look through them sometime to see what I have. I no that I have not even used most of them and haven't looked through some in ages. In the living room on the built in book cases we tend to alphabetize but after awhile they tend to get out of order.
ReplyDeleteKaren
http://karensquilting.com/blog/
Glad you hadn't sold it!
ReplyDeleteI agree about the 'birth' of ideas- it is as though it gets released into consciousness, & several people 'get it' at the same time!
Glad you found it.
ReplyDeleteLast time I organized my books I did it by color.
But I did group them by type before I arranged by color so it's not as hard as it could be.
Looks much nicer but makes them harder to find!
K
From the cover of the books, they were worth the 2 day search it took to find them. Love the design, which looks very detailed. I know the joy of finding something that one looks for, and finally finding it. I had been looking for an item since Christmas, finally found it last week... You know the old saying "if it was a snake it would have bit me". Right in front of my eyes and I kept looking behind it for weeks.
ReplyDeleteJ~MT
Well, wouldn't you know it would be the last ones?! It always happens that way. BUT if it had been the first ones you probably wouldn't have gotten your books organized. ;) That Thirtysomething is a neat pattern. I don't remember seeing it before.
ReplyDeleteGlad you found it!
ReplyDeleteWhy do you always find things in the last place you look? Because once you find it, you stop looking. Anyway, glad you found the pattern. It looks like an interesting one.
ReplyDeleteYIPEEEEEEEEEEE for you. So glad you found them. Can't wait to see the finished quilt;) Hope you're staying warm;)
ReplyDeleteGlad you found the lost items. It is so frustrating when you know you have something, or maybe you have something. That is the frustrating part. You might be searching for something you really do not have anymore!
ReplyDeletePleased you have found your book. It all sounds very organised. By the way the snow came in the night and there is not a Starling to be seen!!!
ReplyDeleteI believe my middle name is 'Organize'. As hard as I try, things aren't always easy to put my hands on so I am forever re-organizing.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I do have all my quilt, etc., books listed by Title and by Author on a spreasheet and then I upload the results to my iPod so when tempted by yet another book I can check to see if I already have it at home.
I thoroughly enjoy your blogging and look forward to learning what's happening.
clapping!
ReplyDelete