My best kept sewing pattern secret!

How do you check a bunch of vintage sewing patterns quickly?
Use the light!

When I have a big stack of vintage patterns ahead of me, I try to check them as accurately and QUICKLY as possible. I accomplish this by using my light source to see thru the tissue and read the printing on multiple tissue pieces at once. This usually works when trying to check 4 pieces at a time, which means being able to see through 8 piece of tissue, as the pattern is typically folded in half.

So now you know my best kept pattern secret!

[apcolleen]

Woman. Get or make a danged light box. I say this as an ADHD woman- good tools make life easier! Your executive dysfunction will thank you!

[thewhiterabbit]

I’m so confused. What are you checking?

[TamiVonZalez]

And THAT is why I list mainly uncut sewing patterns.

[WinterChoir]

My mom has that pattern that is shown in the beginning. It originally belonged to my grandma.

[yvonne]

This was me on Sunday! I have so many more to go through.

[mssavage]

I can tell before I even start to taken out of envelope.

[Psalm_.]

I still cannot figure out how you can see through all those sheets.

[louisegogel]

Fun!

Please let me know when you are going to open my box…

[mayrajscortes]

I hate those kinds of patterns. I hate them so much that I have to learn how to draft my own 😅

[toniwilson]

How do you read cm on a vintage Australian pattern ?, Measurements are written in centimeters, im not very good with that kind of math

[Rebecca-zrlu]

Thank you God for healing the great big stains in the earth that we have left in Jesus name amen o

[Raegan_Marie]

Mom: My kid doesn’t have ADHD
The kid: