I vote for your advice - sewbizgirl. No one puts value on items they don't spend their money for. If you get patterns, the pattern does mean something to you. (side note: I've loaned books with not perfect results, esp. having a hard copy book where someone else dog ears pages...sad). Besides if you loan a pattern don't they have to make pattern pieces, and if they did not buy it...what do we call that? They are still copying something they did not pay IP on. JMHO