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I dispise those thin, wisps of paper patterns when making clothing or something like you want to make. What I do with the patterns that I know that I will be making more than one of, is to cut the pattern out in cheap muslin fabric or scrap fabric that I have. (Lots of time I'll buy fabric I don't really care for to use in a quilt, at a yard sale for a 1.00 and keep it for this purpose)

Then I take some Ultra Firm Pellon 71F one side fusible and iron the cut out cheap fabric on to it. It gives me a stiff pattern that I have that can be cut out time and time again and I can write/transfer all of the markings onto the muslin/scrap fabric that I need as well. Then I put the actual paper pattern away in case I need to make another working copy for some reason.

Lots of times if I need two different sizes, I'll make one like this in the larger cut of the paper pattern, then cut the paper pattern to the next size I need and make one of the smaller size as well.