Buying Paper Patterns for Yankee Diary

 I know some of you are at a contretemps with your printer.

As a former special education teacher I have long believed that offering you free quilt patterns on the blog would motivate you two to get along. You'd become a more sophisticated citizen of the 21st century. I wouldn't have to spend hours in a page layout program trying to get the 4" pattern to print 4".

But I am giving up.

If you want to buy the paper patterns for the Yankee Diary BOM through the mail I am offering the patterns in three sets of four throughout 2017 in my Etsy store.

NOTE: I will still post them as free patterns on the blog here starting tomorrow, January 25.

January through April are available now for $10 (includes US Postage). You get 7 sheets, 8-1/2" x 11", black & white with pattern pictures, cutting and sewing instructions. Plus a little bit of the Yankee Diary story. A very little bit.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/493172538/yankee-diary-bom-civil-war-quilts?ref=shop_home_active_1

You'll get the patterns before the other blog readers do. Don't spoil their surprise---unless they beg.

You can also buy the first four patterns in a downloadable PDF for $6 at this listing and print it yourself---but this involves a truce with your printer.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/506664289/yankee-diary-bom-civil-war-quilts?ref=shop_home_active_3

One reason I don't do these as PDFs on the blog is I have no cloud to post the PDFs on.

Whine, whine, whine.

Too much work.

Every time I float them on someone else's cloud the cloud changes and the URLs are no good anymore. Plus it's more work to make a PDF than it is to just give you a JPG.

 But I am bowing to overwhelming public demand. Two or three of you have requested a PDF and several have asked for paper patterns or a book(!) No book.

The PDFs are easier to save on your computer than a blog post. You can save the paper patterns in a notebook.

I'll post the next 4 patterns (May-August 2017) at my Etsy shop in May, 2017.

I've also made PDFs and paper patterns for BOM's from earlier years.

Westering Women and Threads of Memory.

Look in the pattern department at my Etsy store.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/BarbaraBrackmanShop?section_id=20633915

You can tell your printer you won.

I'll post the Etsy Shop links each month with the patterns.