Endless pattern stash!
05-07-2011, 07:37 AM
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Wonnie: This is what I have done!! There are so many free patterns on the internet.... one should never have to BUY one in a life time..... I now have three -3ring binders full of patterns... whenever a friend says they need a pattern I have them look thru the books and it is so easy to just let them borrow it...
05-07-2011, 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted by jitkaau
Originally Posted by PaperPrincess
No. (is my nose growing???)
05-07-2011, 08:32 AM
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You bet I do.....I'm afraid if I save them, something will go wrong with the computer and I will lose them. But common sense tells me that they are 'lost' already. But it is fun when I am looking for something else and run across a pattern or two or three.
05-07-2011, 09:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Wonnie
Does anyone have a surplus of patterns and not be able to find what you're looking for?
When our first son was young & in Cub Scouts, I was a den mother & den leader coach who taught crafts to other den mothers. I had a huge binder of crafts that yrs. later I just had to send to a thrift store. Once we moved up here to Wash. nobody had Cub Scouts. I could turn any trash into something crafty. In early yrs. of my marriage when my Navy husb. was at sea, I learned from another wife how to make the cutest bird cage out of metal wire hangers.
05-07-2011, 10:38 AM
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As I am typing this I am looking at my closet with 10 LARGE binders with patterns I have downloaded from the internet plus the 50+ quilt books that were given to me and the numerous books that I have purchased myself, oh and I forgot, I have a folder on my computer with probably easily 75 - 100 downloaded patterns. YIKES I think I am addicted. ARGGHH :) :shock: :?:
05-07-2011, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Wonnie
I'll tell you what I did several years ago. I purchased a large looseleaf notebook, a box of plastic page protectors from Sam's club and a pack of computer paper and I started going through each of my many boxes of patterns, how-to's as well as magazines that had something in them I just HAD to keep! And in the evenings, while watching TV, I started going through the items one by one and pitching those things I knew I would NEVER use. Then, at random, I started cutting out the things I knew I would use along with their instructions if any available and, using a glue stick to hold it to the background of computer paper, just barely tapped the back of each item just enough to hold it in place until I could insert it into a plastic protector. What I ended up with is something that resembles a magazine but full of just those things that appealed to me. Might even throw in a recipe or two. Sometimes I would even throw in a picture of a great room I'd like to duplicate some day. Well, long story short, over time, I now have 4 books of just fun things, 2 quilt books ( I looked through the magazines and maybe only really found one pattern I truly loved so cut it out along with the directions and pitched the book) and 2 for recipes. It works GREAT for me because in the evening now I have fun looking through them and, best of all, I not only am constantly inspired, I can actually FIND what I'm looking for!
05-07-2011, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by heberstitcher
As I am typing this I am looking at my closet with 10 LARGE binders with patterns I have downloaded from the internet plus the 50+ quilt books that were given to me and the numerous books that I have purchased myself, oh and I forgot, I have a folder on my computer with probably easily 75 - 100 downloaded patterns. YIKES I think I am addicted. ARGGHH :) :shock: :?:
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