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Star Wars Simplicity patterns being taken off the shelves?
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jadedknights
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Nov '02
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Date Posted:
10/24/06 5:54pm
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RE: Star Wars Simplicity patterns being taken off the shelves?
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My Wal-Mart Simplicity books have the SW pattern page cut out of the book. No patterns either. I asked and was told that they were forced to remove them. you'd think they'd be there until after halloween, but ???
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JediYvette
Title: Pacific FF RSA
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Date Posted:
10/24/06 7:52pm
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They are all pulled at the fabric store I work at too. It is really sad, because I kept intending to buy the pattern but never got around to do it. 
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PadawansGuide
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Date Posted:
10/25/06 7:56am
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That's interesting. So I guess my friend's store is not the only one being forced to remove them.. Hmm.
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MomMaster
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10/25/06 2:02pm
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I was at 2 of my Joann stores and they were pulled. The books are still out but nothing in the drawers. I'm glad I bought some 2 wks ago.
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Smiling-Otter
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10/25/06 3:08pm
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The local Hancock Fabrics is out of #4450, but I saw one at Wal-mart. I don't really need one, and even at 50% off it was still $8, so I left it where it was.
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Natalie1988
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Date Posted:
10/26/06 8:19am
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it's werd because in montreal we have all simplicity star wars patterns .. maybe here .... Lucasfilm don't deleted the patterns for this moment ....
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PadawansGuide
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Date Posted:
10/26/06 5:13pm
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My friend said:
Okay, I went to work yesterday (& today) and we got in the new simplicity book for "late winter" (not out yet!) and I flipped to the costume section and lo & behold, you could see where they had CUT OUT the star wars pattern pages! because there was about a quarter inch left in the book of the page and it had "leia's sleeve" on it!! So obviously, they were not planning this discard at all!! and it must have been spurr of the moment, for them to print those pattern pages and include them in "late winter" book, because if they were planning it, they would have skipped printing them!
So anyway, still no news on the "reason why", but I checked and *so far* the McCalls "sleepless knight" pattern is still available.
Wacky stuff!
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Lady_Skywalker13
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10/27/06 9:38am
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Well, I guess it's a good thing that I happened to grab the jedi pattern at Jon Ann's when I was there!
I have a feeling, though, that after this is all over, we will still be able to find the patterns on ebay or something like that.
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Nidrail
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Date Posted:
11/1/06 2:31pm
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They are not taking down the lavender pattern, are they?
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Obi-Dawn Kenobi
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11/1/06 3:07pm
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Nidrail posted:
They are not taking down the lavender pattern, are they?
I believe that pattern is made by McCall's and seems to be available still.
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nya
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Date Posted:
11/2/06 11:46pm
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Okay, I figure I should weigh in on this because I'm the softlines supervisor at Jo Ann Stores in northern California. We recieve on a regular basis (a few times a month) corporate RTV requests (RTV= return to vendor). That's just Jo Ann lingo meaning "deface it and toss it". Only sometimes do we actually pack it up and ship it back. Pattern RTV's happen every couple of months or so. We take out the flagged patterns, their shelf labels, and numbered dividers and rip them up and throw them away. This usually happens with patterns that are a few seasons old or are poor sellers. I don't know about the pages being ripped right out of the pattern books, that's something I've never encountered before in my three years with the company, but corporate surprises us all the time with unusual requests, so I won't discount it. I don't know if this has happened in my store or not, because that's not my department. I'll find out tomorrow when I go to work and report back. It could be just part of the normal pattern cylcle-through.
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skywalkerseamstress
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11/5/06 12:14pm
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(I was the one that pointed out this happening over in my Lj and Padawansguide started this thread over here)
I know that pattern companies do discards, it is very normal, especially around Halloween, due to all the new patterns! but, this was NOT a normal "discard", we were sent an email before we opened and it stated that had to immediatly remove all those patterns from the store and destroy them... no sending them back to the company or anything. Which is another normal thing, most of the time you don't have to send the patterns back to the company, just destroy them, but this email voiced that we better get rid of them fast!
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Adalia-Durron
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Date Posted:
11/5/06 7:34pm
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Kinda sad really. Us costumers are the lifeblood of SW Fandom, we make and wear the costumes promoting the Movies in our own way, so really removing all costume patterns is like cutting off ones nose to spite ones face......sad.
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Senni
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Date Posted:
11/9/06 2:52pm
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They are not gone the numbers are just being changed like the Wizard of Oz patterns were. 4450 is now 0579, 4426 (the kids patteren) is now 0578. I haven't found the new equivelent to 4443 yet.
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Jada
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Date Posted:
11/10/06 5:50am
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Senni posted:
They are not gone the numbers are just being changed like the Wizard of Oz patterns were. 4450 is now 0579, 4426 (the kids patteren) is now 0578. I haven't found the new equivelent to 4443 yet.
Thank you. I went to Hancock's last sale, fought traffic and nearly blew a gasket in my brain when I couldn't find the patterns. 
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