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I recently learned of BurdaStyles from my German co-worker, apparently Burda is a big name in patterns and DIY crafts here in Germany, offering monthly catalogs on patterns that you can buy at your local news stand. I found one, and also purchased their Burda Plus book that is released twice a year and offers only patterns for sizes 44-56 EU. It was such a bargain, about 30 different patterns for about 5 Euros. There was one minor issue, the book was in German! (well duh, Nicole, you live in Germany) Now I don't know how familar you guys are with German but it's quite the language. The Germans have this amazing habit of just creating words by compounding 2 to 6 of them together. So as you can imagine, standard "layman's" German can be interesting, but German in the context of sewing is just down right ridiculous. I scanned the magazine at home and attempted to use google translate and it practically did my head in. Not to mention that ALL 30 or so patterns come on ONE huge fold out in the middle of the book, all overlapping each other in different hash markings and color codes. You aren't suppose to actually cut the pattern out but trace the appropriate pieces for your desired garment. After considering all the work and brainpower needed on top of the skill required to make an actual garment I decided to pass on the BurdaStyle magazine for the time being, but I still wanted to test out Burda! Luckily there is this nifty thing called the internet and I found that BurdaStyle had a corresponding US site, that offered many of the patterns online in English, downfall is, I have to pay for each pattern individually, patterns online range from free to about 5 USD a piece. Meh, I decided to purchase one as a tester to see how I liked the directions and if it was a bit more manageable than the magazine I had access to in Germany. So here is the first part of the endeavor, printing and assembling the pdf pattern. Purchasing from the BurdaStyle website was super easy. After downloading both the pdf directions and pattern, I sent them to the printer. There is an option to send the pattern to a copy shop to get it printed on large scale paper but I didn't want to waste time sending it out and goodness knows how much that would have cost. The patten resulted in about 40 pieces of A4 pages all needing to be taped together. The pattern required no additional scaling or formatting and seam allowance was included.

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