I wanted to share this great idea from one of our teachers at Seed Stitch, Margie.

Margie uses these little spiral bound notebooks to help make her pattern reading easier and more transportable and I thought you all might like to learn from her.  Such a great idea.

First she grabs one of these little spiral notebooks and then attaches a locking key ring.  A shower curtain ring or other ring that allows you to easily open and close it like a carabiner might also work.

Then she photocopies the pattern from her book (of course purchased so she’s not violating copywrite laws) and cuts it up into manageable steps or pieces, pasting each step on individual pages of the little notebook.

Here you can see one of the pattern rows easily accessible and in the bottom snip it of the photo (yes I know this is a kind of crappy photo) you can see that Margie ticks off the rows as she does them so you always know where you are in the pattern.

Margie has found this to be a great way to take a pattern on the road, especially on the plane. She can attach this little book to the seat in front of her and easily flip the pages as she goes, never having to worry that it will fall under the seat in front of you.

Thanks so much Margie for this great trick!