karamarie, if you have the pattern on paper already, like you get when you buy a pattern, you put it in the top of your printer and copy it onto the newsprint, which you place in the tray. If you don't have a printer, copy them at a library or Staples, etc., but it'll probably have to be on ordinary copy paper. Otherwise, you can trace them by hand onto newsprint if you don't have a gazillion to make. I've done that, too. If you are getting the pattern for free off the internet, you have to download it into your computer, then tell the computer to make copies with your printer, with whatever kind of paper you choose in the tray.