Yes I get my patterns online and in many magazines but I think what you are asking is if some of us male our patterns at home without buying the special papers. Yes we do from what I can tell many of us print them out ourselves on copy paper I buy a pack of copy paper at Walmart and print my patterns out and use them all of the time It is probably a no no but it works and I am more apt to have copy paper than foundation paper around when I need it