Links to Free Stained Glass Patterns
This is a work in progress, and sites to which we link are constantly changing their page urls.
The links below lead you to other sites with free patterns. We started out linking to individual patterns and organizing the patterns by subject matter, but it just got to be too much, and sites kept changing their page urls, so now we are only listing the main page. We will include a brief description of what they have when time and energy permit.
We are not going to list every site on the internet that has free patterns, just our favorites.
Many of the sites out there offer the same patterns, usually the patterns that Spectrum has chosen for their Pattern of the Month series. These are great patterns, and you can find them for free on Spectrum’s site.
Spectrum now requires that you sign up for access to their patterns, but they are still free, and this is the best source for them. I will not list sites that merely display Spectrum’s patterns.
We also post our own free patterns as we create them; check our links in the left bar for our free patterns. Hope you like them! 
Sites with Free Patterns:
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on January 9th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
What is the formula for making prints larger that end up symetric in size? Thank you.
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Hi John. Gwen here.
The manner of enlarging print size depends upon the program you are using to view and print.
If you are using the Glass Eye 2000 go to Modify - Resize All - and make sure the “Maintain Proportions” box is selected and set either the height (or width) you want. The Glass Eye will automatically set the proper width (or height) to maintain the proportions. This allows you to set the exact size.
If you have Microsoft Publisher you can import the .jpg (or just copy and paste it) into a blank page and change the size by selecting the picture and enlarging or reducing from the corners. This maintains the proportions. I’m not that familiar with Publisher, so I don’t know how to set the exact size here.
You can probably do the same thing with Adobe Acrobat if you have their Professional version or a version that allows you to create .pdf documents.
If you have Microsoft Word you can also place the .jpg in a blank Word document. Save the .jpg to your computer, then go to Insert - Picture - From file- and find the saved .jpg and insert it (or copy and paste it.) Then double click the picture and bring up the Format Picture box. Go to the tab marked “Size” and make sure the “Lock Aspect Ratio” and “Relative to Original Picture Size” boxes are selected, then reset either the Height or Width and click OK. Word will automatically maintain the correct proportions. This allows you to set the exact size.
You can also print out the picture and take it to a photocopy store and ask them to blow it up or reduce it for you to the exact size you want, but that should not be necessary if you have one of the above programs.
I hope this helps. Good luck.
Gwen
on September 10th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Hi we have a new website with over 200 free patterns for download.
Please check it out at http://www.free-stainedglass.com
If you are interested we can exchange links
Regards
Anton