My daughter's Young Women class asked me to help them make aprons. L and I went through my stack of patterns and settled on this pattern for the apron, third from left. It is an apron I have not made before. Yesterday, I sent the materials list with L to hand out to the girls and leaders.
Today I opened the package to cut out the pattern and what do I see? A bizarre collection of xerox . . . ., well to use the word "patterns" would be flattery. This was a $10 purchase--for suggestions? For me to have to cobble together a pattern? To not have pattern pieces for all the apron parts even after I cobble some together? I feel cheated. If I cut out one "suggestion," I lose all the others so it necessitates xeroxing all the crazy hen scratches for apron C to preserve the hen scratchings for aprons A and B. And I just ran out of printer ink.
I could make the suggestions fly if I were the only one making these but I have to hand around the pattern (and just where do I get that?) and not just some vague suggestions to a bunch of other people. I will make it work but consider carefully before you buy any patterns from this person. I could have looked at this picture and drawn my own pattern more easily and had $10 in my pocket. And as it turns out, I will be making a pattern myself anyway and I will be $10 poorer, too.


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