I spend a lot of time on eBay, buying patterns and other things like house wares, it’s also a great place to do some research on era-appropriate things of all sorts.

Occasionally you meet a really nice person.

This was my wonderful luck not only winning a smashing pattern, but when I received it, it was the first pattern I was able to inspect and put back into it’s original slide-in sleeve!

When I wrote this in the comments, I got a wonderful reply from the seller – and you could feel the love she has for her patterns in how she spoke about the care she took in maintaining them, but most touching to me was that I had won one of her favorites from her very own collection!

Rest assured this pattern s now one of my favorites, not only for the fabulous design, but also for the great happy feelings I get from my conversation with this seller.

And really, isn’t meeting other enthusiasts and making friends the whole idea?

what I’m hopeing for now, is ideas an suggestions on what  kinds of fabrics to get to make this pattern really come to life!

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