Membership of the Patrons group and the Supporters group stems from the financial support people provide to FreeSewing.
Because we do not process these payments ourselves (we rely on PayPal for that) there is no automatic link between your payments and your FreeSewing account.
Which means that if you are not in one of these groups even though you do support us, you should let us know about it so we can fix that. As a matter of fact, this is how we build out these groups over time.
Reach out to joost to right this wrong.