I don't consider myself as being cheap because if I see a pattern or a kit I really want I buy but I prefer to have sewing time with friends on a sharing basis so this is why I use the free and traditional patterns and there are so many of them they can keep us busy forever we are doing one at seniors now every Wed. and it is so fun to watch our quilts coming together and how different with just the change of colors ---I also prefer magazines over books as so many times only one pattern in a book to use guess we all have our ways of doing things but I consider myself as a sharing person and I do not believe in copying a pattern to sell that is against the law but to share and ose in a quilting group I see no harm in it