I have the same problems with cross-stitch patterns that I have with books: Quantity and Time. My TBR list is longer than my arm, and I have a box full of cross-stitching magazines and a drawer full of kits. And not enough hours in the day.
I didn’t help myself, either, buying a new magazine each month, usually full of many patterns which I want to stitch. And then by trying to design my own patterns, too. Nowadays I try to restrict the magazine-buying only to those with sufficient patterns I like to make it worthwhile.
About ten magazines into my collection, though, I came to a decision. I was marking the patterns I liked by folding down the corner of the page, but I wasn’t really keeping track of them, for suitable occasions in the future or just-becauses. So, I did what comes naturally to the planner.
I began to note each pattern down, in a notebook, complete with the edition it was in, the length of time it supposedly took, and a complete list of all threads and fabrics required to complete the pattern. My Project Notebook.
This worked well for a few years, but a couple of months ago, while I was beginning to reorganise my crafting corner, I decided to declutter. Which involved getting rid of patterns I was never going to stitch. I managed to whittle my 60-odd cross-stitch magazines down to two lever-arch folders, and they may all be made at some point.
How do you track your future projects?
Life Ever Crafting 
So much more organized than me! My projects are usually a combination of bookmarked websites and Pinterest pins.
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That day will come when I rewrite my list of patterns. I stopped a while back, when my magazines got a little out-of-hand, and now it needs updating.
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