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Do you have old leaflets and pattern books that are looking for a new home or find a pattern that needs a correction? Contact Us! We'd love to hear from you.

Pie Recipes

Baking is most likely the favorite in the department of culinary arts. It's utilized in creating pastry based treats such pies, tarts and cakes. The dry warmth within the oven causes the starch to gelatinize and leads to the browning or charring of the food. Some people might think the charred part or even the brown part isn't as tasty, but it's this part that really gives taste and flavor towards the baked good. The brown within the baked good is triggered through the sugar caramelizing. Ready to make something of your very own? Try these pie recipes!

Apple Pie Recipes	Chocolate Pie Recipes	Pumpkin Pie Recipes	Key Lime Pie Recipes	Strawberry Pie Recipes	Lemon Pie Recipes	Sweet Potato Pie Recipes

Magazine Subscriptions

Keep your crafting, crocheting and knitting projects coming automatically all year long with a subscription to a magazine or two jam-packed with popular and fun patterns.

We've partnered with Blue Dolphin to not only offer you dozens of craft-themed magazines, but their entire inventory of more than 1,300 magazines, including all of the best-selling titles and hard-to-find periodicals. Ordering a subscription through Blue Dolphin means you'll get the lowest publisher-authorized price for your magazines - up to an 85% savings off of the cover price.

With every magazine subscription, you also get Blue Dolphin's 100% risk-free guarantee. If you're not 100% completely satisfied with your magazines, for any reason whatsoever, you may cancel anytime within 90 days of placing your order for a full refund.

There's no reason to wait to subscribe to your favorite magazines! Especially when you can save 40% or more on some of your favorites!

12 Issues	12 Issues	6 Issues	6 Issues	7 Issues
Cover Price: $47.88	Cover Price: $41.88	Cover Price: $35.94	Cover Price: $35.94	Cover Price: $43.93
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Redbook	Good Housekeeping	Crochet!	Creative Knitting	Just CrossStitch
6 Issues	6 Issues	12 Issues	12 Issues	10 Issues
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Quilters Newsletter	Scrapbooks etc.	Martha Stewart Living	Better Homes and Gardens	Whole Living

Standard delivery time for most magazines is 6 to 8 weeks. Some monthly magazines and those published less frequently may take a little longer.

Yarn

Because Coats & Clark has been gracious enough to allow us to reproduce their patterns here, we encourage you to consider supporting them through your yarn purchases by using Coats & Clark products for your projects. The company's product line includes quality yarns and threads under the brand names Red Heart, TLC, Moda Dea, J&P Coats, and Aunt Lydia's.

Are you having difficulty finding the thread or yarn needed for your project? Purple Kitty has entered into partnerships with several, well-known retailers, including Joann, Dick Blick, MisterArt and Create For Less to help you find that perfect or favorite yarn online for your knitting, crochet or other type of craft project if you're unable to find it at your local yarn or craft store. Take a look at all of the yarn and threads currently available from our partners.

Downloadable ePatterns

If you prefer to have immediate access to your patterns, we have a couple of different types of downloadable patterns available for purchase.

If you're looking for vintage crochet and knitting patterns, as we reproduce vintage pattern leaflets, we publish the patterns on our Free Crochet Pattern and Free Knitting Pattern websites. You can print these patterns directly from the website for free.

Additionally, we've been turning the entire leaflet into a a convenient eBook that is immediately available as a download as soon as payment is received. For only $2.49 each, you can save the entire eBook to your computer's harddrive for easy access anytime you want it.

Browse through the Pattern eBooks we now have. We continue to add new eBooks every time we reproduce a new vintage leaflet.

Partnering with Leisure Arts has enabled us to bring you their collection of Leisure Arts downloadable ePatterns from their previous publications, many of them now out of print and very hard to find, but still much sought after!

Founded in 1971, Leisure Arts is one of the world's largest publishers of lifestyle and instructional materials. Through the years, Leisure Arts has published thousands of how-to books, leaflets, magazines, and other publications. LeisureArtsLibrary.com was established to give you access to Leisure Arts designs that are not available in print anymore.

Many of the downloadable designs at this site are from publications for which Leisure Arts no longer has inventory in their warehouse. Some downloads are special projects that have never been published in a traditional format. They have made available thousands of patterns from their archives.

Whatever type of project you're looking for and need right away, you're sure to find one available in one of our downloadable options.

Hundreds of free patterns available from copyright holders who have given us permission to reproduce them here for you, including Coats & Clark, Teresa Wentzler and Plaid Company. You are free to print and share all of these free patterns as many times as you'd like, but please be respectful of the copyright.

You are not allowed to profit in any way from the use of the patterns published on the Purple Kitty website without express written permission from the copyright holder. Copyright information can be found on each pattern page.

Online Literature

Looking for classic literature for free? 

We're putting those together for you too! Check out our library of online literature that includes such amazing works such as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Ulysses by James Joyce, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Dracula by Bram Stoker, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and so much more!