Paul, by no means was I saying "only one pattern should be made" and I apologize if it sounded that way, that was not the intent. I'm just trying to come up with a way that several of us don't make the same pattern at the same time, unless you want too. If it's a pattern you like and want to do, then by all means go ahead and do it. I'm sure the one requesting the pattern would love more than one option.
As for myself, I am brand new to pattern making (it takes me several hours to complete a pattern), I have done several that have not been posted as practice. I'm still not nearly as good or as quick at it as you are. So please don't take the initial post the wrong way. I have all the respect in the world for your abilities, and the others here, and hope to one day be half as good as you are. But for me anyway, I know when you start a pattern it is a rather large time commitment, and I simply wanted away for other pattern makers here to decide whether or not they want to make that time commitment knowing that someone else has already started working on it. To me it's a matter of simple communication, any decisions are personal ones, by announcing that someone is working on a pattern is just added info to help in someone's decision to make a pattern or not. I hope that makes sense.
Bob