I hate having to rebuy seam rippers and scissors after mine have gone missing. I'm doing pretty well with scissors lately, but lost another seam ripper in the past few days. Patterns are a good one. I have bought a few fairly simple ones that were really cute. I've also bought a few that I just couldn't figure out on my own. And I've bought a bunch of magazines and books with patterns in them. But I almost never made a quilt exactly as the pattern suggests. Mostly I use them for ideas.