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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, especially in the mid-west. If you want to get into quilting, you could do a lot worse than become a member of a quilting club or group. Look in your local yellow pages or ask at a hobbyist shop.

If you have no supply of free quilting patterns from a local club, try the Net. If you use the search term ‘free quilting patterns’ in Google or Yahoo, you will see hundreds of alternatives. Some will be very suitable and others will be useless and you will have to dig down to work out which are which.

If you are wondering why anyone should 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 supply it. This gives them all they require to send you promotional emails until you unsubscribe.

Monitor the emails they send you and if you do not like them, do not feel guilty around unsubscribing instantly, 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 called autoresponders.

Patterns that you will be offered in your quest for free quilting patterns are normally the traditional ones that have passed into the public domain like the Lone Star, the Log Cabin and other traditional American patterns.

If you like the traditional quilting patterns this is all very well, but if you want something more contemporary and less well-known you will probably have to pay for it. The average price of a quilting pattern is somewhere around $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 soon because there certainly is a plethora of free quilting patterns on the Net, you only have to bear looking. Before you begin, it would be worth creating a folder called Quilt Patterns in your Favorites Folder. Then you can save any practical site in there so that you can come back to it easily later.

Searching for free quilting patterns, whether on the Internet or asking friends, is an agreeable characteristic of the hobby of quilting, one that is certain to keep you engrossed for many hours.

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