Yarn or Fabric

I'm not sure if we are allowed to post about a pattern sighting on ebay - the minute I saw it (uh, right before I started typing this) I said oh.my.god... someone here would probably give an eye tooth for this listing!!

Let me know if I'm allowed to post a sighting - I have absolutely no affiliation with the listing or the seller - I just saw it and thought that it was a piece of quilting history that someone here would probably be tickled to get ahold of!

Joe

As far as i know its ok i've seen others post them here.

Yarn or Fabric

In that case....
1000 Kansas City Star newspaper quilt patterns digitized on to cd... I'm actually a bit bummed out now though since I thought it was actually the patterns from the paper but it isn't - it's digitally scanned, color corrected but I guess still pretty cool.

False alarm - I thought I had found a diamond by accident and it's not really - although some might argue that it's still a pretty cool find.

Moonpi

I have that CD, and while the description I bid on said there were no copyright issues, many of the scans do have copyrighted patterns, indicated by the symbol and date, or written out on the pattern drawings.

Be aware that all the patterns pre-date rotary cutters and strip piecing methods, so be prepared to make templates and add seam allowances to them. Many of them have little, if any, real instructions, so they may be hard to figure out for some quilters. Block sizes vary considerably, and some patterns do not list finished size at all.

They are fun to look through as a bit of history, though.