Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue — has been sold to a liquidator, per the Craft Industry Alliance. That’s troubling news for those of us that sew and prefer physical patterns, but there’s ...

And there was Butterick factory ... ‘At the same time I was researching my own history into why I wanted to choose patterns and paper and fabric as part of this MA project.

When I think of patterns, my mind says “Butterick,” and I’d bet that the majority of the clothes my mother made me were from patterns put out not by Simplicity or McCall’s but by the ...