Craft stores start selling patterns for christmas stuff mid-year. And we collectors of patterns rake them up, along with patterns in magazines & books & create large collections of patterns! Which we'll never be able to use in our lifetimes.

Since 1987 I've made decorations each year using different techniques - they make good pressies. A few pics here in Craft album

My students are busily stitching away, one is very like me - she is vacuuming up patterns, dunno whether she can use them all, but she's making a valiant effort. We're having fun

sandra