I know I’ve said in the past that I was over paper patterns, sick of ‘em…but I was mainly referring to commercial patterns, like the Big 3. I can’t remember if it was the wrangling of tissue patterns or the sketchy illustrations that turned me against them, but I definitely had my nose turned up ;)Until recently I fell in love again…
I attribute my new love affair with well-designed paper patterns, like this one by Violette Field Threads, the Vivienne.
Isn’t it nice and neat? Not mounds of tissue that takes a math degree to fold back together and plenty of contributions to the swear jar ;) One, easily-foldable, piece of paper that isn’t the size of your front door. Just trace the size you need and put back in the booklet.
Click HERE to see an easy tutorial on tracing and cutting patterns.
Another pro to have your pattern in paper form is that you can have it right in front of you. Sometimes I can’t get on my computer right away to look at a digital pattern because little punk is doing important stuff on there. ABCMouse.com, anyone?DISCLAIMER: I am not knocking digital patterns at all! I love them too, I just want to re-introduce you back to paper if you’ve fallen out of love too!
Violette Field Threads offers 3 of their beautiful patterns in paper right now. They sent me all three to try (Thanks ladies!). I chose the Vivienne for now…isn’t it the sweetest thing? I made the Molly Jacket and I can’t wait to tackle the Stella. 
Instead of adding buttons, I used one of the decorative stitch patterns on my machine! I love the look and foresee a lot more decorative stitches in my future…I especially love it against the denim. The fabric I chose for the underskirt was a purchase from Joann’s about a year ago. I love it and I think it’s right on trend with all the tribal and Aztec prints out there right now.
Click HERE if you’d like to view the VFT Paper Patterns page. You can still get these wonderful patterns in digital format if you prefer…whatever floats your boat :)Ok, now for you to tell me… which one do you prefer (paper or digital) or both :)
9 comments:
I love all patterns, paper or digital! The one advantage I find to the ones I can print myself is that if I need several sizes I can print each on sperately and not have to worry about cutting up the original or copying the original on to transfer paper or something of that nature.
I totally love your take on this pattern! I love the fabric combo you used!
Great point cbaker! It also helps to not have to store all those digital patterns if you just print and cut the size as you need them.
I have that pattern! But I have yet to make it. My daughter is going through a "all I want to wear is Hello Kitty and leggings phase." I prefer digital, esp VFT!
Ok, now you made me go and buy that pattern!
Your skit turne out super cute, and it's nice to see a button-less option.
Personally I'm old-school and prefer paper patterns myself. If I have something on file in my computer, I'll likely forget I have it.
This is so cute! I love your take on it also! I really like paper patterns as long as they are good ones, but often end up buying digital because they are cheaper.
Fabulous - I thought it was for you? It would make such a cool 'grown up' skirt too. So much fun. Thanks for sharing.
So cute!
I prefer paper to pdf because I can never get my printer settings correct and end up not knowing if my printour is ok or not. Makes me nuts
Oh my goodness that is so adorable! I need to learn to sew, stat!
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