I will never pay the high prices that the patterns are going for now. I go in JoAnn's and look thru the patterns and write down #'s of patterns that I would like and wait until they go on sale for 99 cents each. I can remember showing my grandma a picture of a prom dress I wanted her to make for me and she would just get a newspaper out and draw up a pattern and make the dress pattern out of muslin first and make adjustments and then I would visit her and she would have a beautiful dress made out of my choice of fabrics. Let's just go back in time and enjoy sewing the way it used to be. I think I was born in the wrong era!!!