Ottebre patterns???? I will be running out to get stuff to trace ..but what do you recommend?? I want something sturdy,so it will last. And how are you storing them???

I LOVE Pattern ease! I had been using tissue paper but splurged and bought some pattern ease when it was half price and now I will never go back!
Right now I store them in my issues of Ottobre but I plan on poutting them in manila envelopes with the pattern number and what it is when we move.
Mindi

I use pattern ease and manilla envelopes, one day they will be filed even! LOL I write on the envelope the pattern number / issue number, size and if it's morphed or tweeked in anyway. Like I usually have to add length for dd but if I made the same size for a friend I wouldn't want the length kwim...

I just discovered Patternease as well. Before I was using freezer paper or cheap JA's interfacing. My method makes sense to no one but me and I don't recommend it LOL. I have manila envelopes by size so one has size 80, size 98 size 116. I fold all pieces of a traced pattern together and put them in the envelope. When I pull out a pice everything for that pattern is folded inside of it. Told you it made absolutely no sense LOL.

I haven't done a lot of Ottobre but I always use Patternease for all my pattern tracing (aka Kwiksew ect). Right now I label my Ottobre pattern pieces well (mag date, design/pattern piece numbers) and keep one mag and all tracings for that mag per gallon ziploc (with mag date written on outside of baggie).

Sarah

Yep, add me to the ziploc baggy way. :) I also too have not done that many yet.....

I buy the cheap interfacing at JA when it's on sale. I buy a bolt at a time. Then, I store them in manilla envelopes - one envelope per issue and size. I store the envelopes in a file basket in my sewing room. It's worked well so far, as long as I keep on top of the filing!

I use interfacing to trace on.
to store them I take a copy of the center of the Ottobre issue and glue it to the front and back of a manilla envie. Then, each view/size I trace from that issue gets put in a zip lock and put in the envie. This way I can see all the views for the issue and have the tracings there in the envie without having to match up pattern pieces and sizes.

I use Doctors examing table paper, it's super thin which makes it easy to trace and super cheapo. You can get it at Medical supply stores. If it's a pattern I know I'll use over and over again I use then use Pattern ease which is more expensive but much sturdier. I store my patterns in these plastic sleeves that Nancy's Notions sells they are the same size as the big 3 patterns and so I fill them in a file cabinet or pattern storage bins from Joanns. I usually write on the outside which issue and number/size the traced patterns came from. When I feel unually organized which is not too often I photo copy the picture from the magazine and put it on the outside of the plastic sleeve.

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baggie idea. I like the idea of keeping the pieces with the mag. it came from.