I was a little disappointed to find that there were clothes pictured in the magazine that did not have patterns. Particularly the children's clothes; they were pictured with T-shirts, golf shirt type shirts, and other items that I thought would have patterns, but did not.
However, that is not to say that I don't think the magazine is a great value. I think it is excellent to be able to get so many patterns for only $8 (especially when buy it during a sale at your local fabric store and get it for 25% off that!). Not to mention the fact that the same patterns are pictured in different fabrics, so it gives you even more ideas about how to make the patterns more versatile. Take this skirt for example:
In the magazine it is pictured three different ways.
Anyway, lately I've been toying with the idea of doing the Sewing with a Plan thing (SWAP). You see it in various places online, although it seems to originate here. I've read this a few times before, but the other day I came across it again, and it finally stuck with me that the key to the whole thing is to not pick fussy, complicated patterns that you won't finish. You should use the easiest patterns you have, especially ones you have made before, and you can make the same thing out of different fabrics.
Well, I've wasted too much time online already; I should be sewing!
