Pattern Searches
Monday November 3, 2008
I have a gazillion patterns.... so many that it's usually easier to glance through pattern books and buy a new one than it is to try and find the pattern I want. Then there are those patterns that you wish you had bought and then can't find it when you are ready to buy it. There is a solution! The forum on this site brings together many sewing minds to fill in our memory blanks and to offer suggestions for which pattern might work best to fill our needs.
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Make your own pattern book by photocoping the cover of your patterns and filing in a binder in the same order as the books in the store. Yes, it will be a big job to start with but easy to keep up.
I have a collection of approximately 4000 patterns. I’ve been sewing for 40 years for myself, family and public and have NEVER thrown away a pattern! I actually DID copy the pattern envelopes and made my own “catalogs” using tabs from old discarded pattern books from a fabric store. My patterns are filed numerically,paying no attention to name brand, in a pattern cabinet. When I look for a pattern, I simply find it in my catalog, then go to the cabinet and look for it in numerical order! This has simplified the pattern search emensly!!!!
Happy Sewing!