Here is the Air Force veteran pattern. One more to do. I will have the US Coast Guard finished tomorrow and that will complete the five branches of military plaques.I'm getting a lot of positive feed back on these patterns. One mother is cutting 21 of the Army plaques to send to her son and his unit in Afghanistan. One veteran is making a plaque combining all the patterns to present to his local veteran center. Several are making them for family members and friends. A few are adding them to their catalog of projects to sell.
All of you know the fun of giving a project to some one. When you can tell they like it. It feels good and you get as much from the gift as the receiver. That is what this series of patterns is like for me. I make a lot of patterns. Some are good and some are not so good. I check the number of downloads every night to see what you guys like. When I put out a crappy pattern I can tell by the end of the day because there are only a few hundred downloads.
I did not have to look at the numbers for these patterns because my email doubled. Tonight I finally decided to look at the download numbers and the Army Veteran pattern had over 3000 downloads. Even if only half of the people end up cutting the pattern that's 1500 vets that someone is saying thank you to. That makes me happy.
