<html><body><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, -apple-system, Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I use a ad blocking browser to help with things like that. Just go to www.brave.com.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, -apple-system, Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hope this helps</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, -apple-system, Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jill Rossiter</div><div id="ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line" data-applydefaultfontstyles="true" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, -apple-system, Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, -apple-system, Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div></div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, -apple-system, Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" id="ms-outlook-mobile-signature"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, -apple-system, Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Get </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, -apple-system, Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://aka.ms/o0ukef">Outlook for iOS</a></span></div><div id="mail-editor-reference-message-container" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message"><div id="mail-editor-reference-message-container"><hr style="display: inline-block; width: 98%;"><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>From:</b> NFB-Blind-Crafters <nfb-blind-crafters-bounces@nfbnet.org> on behalf of Annette via NFB-Blind-Crafters <nfb-blind-crafters@nfbnet.org><br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 16, 2026 3:11 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'List for Blind Crafters and Artists' <nfb-blind-crafters@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> amcarr1@verizon.net <amcarr1@verizon.net><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NFB-Blind-Crafters] Dealing with freepatterns full of ads</span><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </div></div><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Yes, I also copy most of the contents of the web page and paste it as unformatted text into a MS-Word document. Then I delete what I do not need, and format the document with headings, bullets/numbers, and what ever else to make it easier to follow. How I format the document depends on how I plan to read it when working on a project. I might use my computer and read the MS-Word doc, or copy the contents of the MS-Word doc into the body of an e-mail that I send to myself so that I can read it on my phone while out and about, or I might copy the MS-Word doc over to my NLS braille display, or I might write out the pattern in braille on index cards held together on a metal ring.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">HTH,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Annette</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><div style="padding: 3pt 0in 0in; border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(225, 225, 225) currentcolor currentcolor;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>From:</b> NFB-Blind-Crafters <nfb-blind-crafters-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeanette Kutash via NFB-Blind-Crafters<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 14, 2026 9:28 AM<br><b>To:</b> nfb-blind-crafters@nfbnet.org<br><b>Cc:</b> Jeanette Kutash <kutash-jm@comcast.net>; nfb-blind-crafters@nfbnet.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NFB-Blind-Crafters] Dealing with freepatterns full of ads</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tracy, I do the same as you. I find it is the easiest.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sent from Jeanette Kutash's iPhone</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ZZ Z<br><br></p><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On Aug 13, 2026, at 8:58\u202fAM, Tracy Carcione via NFB-Blind-Crafters <<span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><a href="mailto:nfb-blind-crafters@nfbnet.org" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>nfb-blind-crafters@nfbnet.org</u></a></span>> wrote:</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">\ufeff</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I\u2019ve been grabbing free patterns off the internet. All of them have ads, and often ads that make the screen change regularly and change where I am in the text.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">My solution is to select a lot of the webpage, copy it to the clipboard, then paste it into a Notepad file. I use Windows. Then I go through the file and take out all the stuff I don\u2019t want. It takes a little while, but it doesn\u2019t jump around, and I know I want the file on my PC anyway. It does take out any links to videos, but I\u2019m not big on videos anyway, and I can always go back to the webpage if I need to.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">How do other people handle patterns on the internet?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Tracy</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">_______________________________________________<br>NFB-Blind-Crafters mailing list<br></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><a href="mailto:NFB-Blind-Crafters@nfbnet.org" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>NFB-Blind-Crafters@nfbnet.org</u></a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-blind-crafters_nfbnet.org" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-blind-crafters_nfbnet.org</u></a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFB-Blind-Crafters:<br></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-blind-crafters_nfbnet.org/kutash-jm%40comcast.netTracy" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-blind-crafters_nfbnet.org/kutash-jm%40comcast.netTracy</u></a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">,</span></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>