Safe Pretreating Patterns?

I make a working photocopy - that way I can color in as I go, too.

Elizabeth

Well, that brings me to another related problem. Most of my patterns are too big for my printer. So, to get the fold area, I have to add more folds to the pattern and often the copy is degraded and the pattern even more so.

Is the only answer then to head to a copy shop?

mag

Try Kinko's copiers. They have extra large printers that will print the whole side, then the other side with nary a fold. Works for me. Frances

Try Kinko's copiers. They have extra large printers that will print the whole side, then the other side with nary a fold. Works for me. Frances

If you don't have a Kinko's, try any copier service that does posters or blueprints. They are equipped for the oversize paper

My local copy shop almost refused, because the pattern was copyrighted. I had to talk them into it(!)

If the copy shop is following the law, they will not allow you to copy a pattern created by someone else. The simple solution is to e-mail the designer and ask for permission to make a working copy. I have had no problem in bringing in an e-mail with the designer's name that matches the name on the pattern.

I have yet to have a designer refuse me permission.

Donna in Virginia

MLI would refuse...she says you can't even make a working copy....that you are to send the old pattern to her, if it gets in bad shape, and she will send you a new one.

Don't think I would go to that trouble....my little printer works fine....and I only print small areas and enlarge them. I run each one through the shredder as I am finished with it ....don't think anyone else could make sense of them, anyway!!!

Don't think I will be going to jail......as I have never stitched an MLI!!!

just me, Cathy from KY in CA