Paper pattern ideas ?

[Foxfold]

What does everyone do with their 'paper patterns' when you've finished scrolling ? I've got so many in a box I just wondered what people did with them.

[trackman]

Usually they tear when I take off the board an then go into trash can. 

[daveww1]

I make copies of the pattern and use the copy to cut the project out. The original gets filed away for future use.

[Foxfold]

1 minute ago, daveww1 said:

I make copies of the pattern and use the copy to cut the project out. The original gets filed away for future use.

I'm not sure I made myself clear. I have all my patterns on my computer.   This is the pattern after I've cut the piece. My patterns come off in one piece after I've cut and I wondered what people did with their 'used' patterns. 

[kmmcrafts]

In a couple instances I have used them as painting templates.. LOL Other than that... I just toss them out.. They only come off in one piece if you're using shelf liner.. and sometimes break even then..

On a side note.. the other day I was cutting a custom ornament and instead of getting the 12" wide shelf liner out for a 4" square piece I just used the old trusty painters tape.. It sure reminded me how much nicer the shelf liner is when peeling off the pattern.. glad is was only about two strips of tape and not a whole portrait or something.. Boy it used to take almost as long to peel that tape off as it did to cut the pattern back in the painter tape days, LOL

[NC Scroller]

One and done.  They go in the trash. 

[Fedido]

I use card stock and a cricut, but I keep all the patterns unless they tear. It has come in handy every once in a while as I don't have to reprint patterns every time I want/need to cut something. 

[trackman]

For the price of a piece of paper I wouldn’t brother with trying to store a cut pattern. Go to computer print out new one. 

[Foxfold]

2 hours ago, kmmcrafts said:

They only come off in one piece if you're using shelf liner.. and sometimes break even then..

Must admit, I glue my patterns directly to my wood and then wipe over with white spirit and the pattern just falls off.  I can't pick and pull at anything stuck down as my hands won't work that way. 

[Foxfold]

28 minutes ago, trackman said:

For the price of a piece of paper I wouldn’t brother with trying to store a cut pattern. Go to computer print out new one. 

All my patterns are on my computer and I have a lifetimes worth of paper. It's not about that, I just wondered if there was anything I could do with the 'left overs, and just curious about what other may do that I don't.   Waste not want not, as my mother used to say...  

[dgman]

I have never reused a pattern. Once it’s off, it goes in the trash. 

[MrsN]

someone used them as spray paint templates and made painted versions of each of their projects on the shop walls 

[Foxfold]

2 minutes ago, MrsN said:

someone used them as spray paint templates and made painted versions of each of their projects on the shop walls 

Mmm.  I wonder what my workshop would look like with lots of paintings of my work on the walls 

[new2woodwrk]

I have yet to be able to re-use a pattern myself, but I like the spray template/ stencil idea

[JustSomeOldDude]

I haven't been able to save any patterns afterward. so far

[Tomanydogs]

Mine come off in bits and pieces. But I like the idea of using them as stencils 

[flarud]

1 hour ago, MrsN said:

someone used them as spray paint templates and made painted versions of each of their projects on the shop walls 

That would be me.  LOL   I had to stop and rethink how I was going to keep doing this.  I already have more patterns ready to spray onto the door than I have room for.  

[barb.j.enders]

Mine never come off in one piece - into the trash they go!

[Foxfold]

41 minutes ago, flarud said:

  I already have more patterns ready to spray onto the door than I have room for.  

I love that idea !!!  I too have too many. 

[MrsN]

15 hours ago, flarud said:

That would be me.  LOL   I had to stop and rethink how I was going to keep doing this.  I already have more patterns ready to spray onto the door than I have room for.  

I am glad you found the post, I couldn't remember who it was. I like the idea.