Throughout history, ladies who quilted have shared patterns, designs, tips and experience to others within their group. It was a tactic for women to get together in a social group without risking being accused of wasting time. Not only did they use their 'social time' to make goods, quilts, which could be used or sold, but they made them out of scrap material: small off-cuts of cloth which other people might call rags.
Women still do this today, particularly in the mid-west. If you want to get into quilting, you could do a lot worse than join a quilting club or group. Look in your local Yellow Pages or ask at a crafts shop.
If you have no source of free quilting patterns from a local club, try the Internet. if you use the search term 'free quilting patterns' in Google or Yahoo, you will see hundreds of choices. Some will be very decent and others will be useless, and you will have to dig down to work out which are which.
If you are wondering why anyone must offer free quilting patterns, the reason is that they will want you to visit their web site to request it and your email address to deliver it. This gives them all they require to send you promotional emails until you unsubscribe.
Keep an eye on the emails they send you and if you do not like them, do not feel guilty about unsubscribing immediately, even if the free quilting patterns were pretty functional. You will not be hurting anyone's feelings, no-one will even know who you are. It is all done automatically with programs known as authoresponders.
Patterns that you will be offered in your task for free quilting patterns are usually the traditional ones that have passed into the public domain like the Lone Star, the Log Cabin and other time-honored American patterns.
If you like the traditional quilting patterns this is all very well, but if you want something more modern and less well-known you will probably have to pay for it. The average cost of a quilting pattern is somewhere about $25, but it can also be $10 more or less. eBay can be a good source of cheap quilting patterns.
However, do not give up on your task for free quilting patterns too quickly because there really is a large amount of free quilting patterns on the Internet, you merely have to continue searching. Before you begin, it would be worth creating a folder called Quilt Patterns in your Favorites Folder. Then you can save any functional web sites in there so that you can come back to them easily again.
Browsing for free quilt patterns, whether on the intent or asking friends, is an enjoyable aspect of the hobby of quilting, one that is sure to bear you engrossed for many hours.
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