I really love this forum, but it is so frustrating trying to do searches. If you know the exact name of a pattern it's easy to search. I've seen patterns here I've never seen before, so of course I don't know the name of it. I have found patterns by searching a specific designer, but again I don't know the names of every designer.
My main problem is not being able to search a specific category, like Other Hand Works Resources. For example, I can search handbags or dolls and get lot's of results. Problem is I don't do cross stitch, don't knit and rarely crochet, but if I want to find patterns I have to go through several hundreds of results that are probably 85 or 90% knit or crochet. To be honest, if there are a lot of results I don't bother looking.
If there is a way to just search a category I haven't figured it out, so if someone knows how please let me know.