You’ve given some food for thought as to ideas of my own I could sell. I’ve had a vague notion for some time, but now I’m starting to think specifics; thanks for the inspiration! (Don’t worry, I won’t be doing clothing patterns.

For those that don’t have presentation software, you can put the images (using the same procedures pretty much) into Word. It isn’t really any more difficult to make the labels there.

Having something digitized (by a reputable party) is very inexpensive, you could even do it through the mail. The only downside is minimums. Technically a pattern like Carla’s that is this simple would take a matter of minutes (less than 10) so someone might not want to do it because a service provider needs a minimum return to set up a new account, the files etc (which isn’t something we can charge for), say an hour or so. The hourly rate is $50 to $75 depending on location so it wouldn’t be worth it to do one pattern. However, if you wanted to have five or six simple ones done, it could be done in an hour and would be better digitally and time wise.

Oh, and a service provider might (but not always) also do the grading, which is also inexpensive for a pattern like this. The more pieces there are, the more costly the grade. Something like Carla’s pattern would be maybe $4 to $5 per size so four sizes (XS S L XL, no charge for the medium or base size) is @ $20. But again, services have minimums so the job would have to be enough to take up an hour (or 2) of time. You’d also have to specify you wanted pdf output (and maybe how to do it as above) which may be cause for puzzlement because we don’t do it that way.