Free Quilt Patterns Are Being Sold Online!
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Free Quilt Patterns Are Being Sold Online!
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It's such a shame when there are so many nice free patterns that a company would do this.
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It's such a shame when there are so many nice free patterns that a company would do this.
Last edited by QuiltnNan; 02-18-2013 at 06:08 AM. Reason: replace copyright material with link
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This is a real shame. Our quilt shops and sites go out of their way to help all of us with so many free patterns and these folks should be ashamed for making a profit on something that was given to all of us for free.
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I feel the same way about people who take antique patterns, rename them and make a profit out of them. New quilters have no idea that the patterns are free. I have even found quilt magazines lately renaming traditional patterns made out of modern fabrics and offered as new.
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Sad to see but I'm not surprised at all ... they should be stopped from doing this
and is this any different than the sellers on ebay (and other sites, etsy etc) who re-sell individual patterns taken from magazines and books, that are just torn out or copied ??? I'm not sure ... but it doesn't seem right to me.
and is this any different than the sellers on ebay (and other sites, etsy etc) who re-sell individual patterns taken from magazines and books, that are just torn out or copied ??? I'm not sure ... but it doesn't seem right to me.
#5
I feel the same way about people who take antique patterns, rename them and make a profit out of them. New quilters have no idea that the patterns are free. I have even found quilt magazines lately renaming traditional patterns made out of modern fabrics and offered as new.
I find it amusing when I read about all these "quilt designers" today, including some of the "modern quilters" and their "ground-breaking designs" and the magazines & fabric manuf. promoting them.
You see the SAME quilts over and over again in most magazines and many books. Just different fabrics. Their designs are not unique or new, they are just four-patches, nine-patches, churn dashes, flying geese, strips, chains, squares and triangles, etc ... sewn in new fabrics, all trying to look different !
Take away the modern fabrics - and there's nothing different from most utility or scrappy farm quilts made in the last 100+ years ...
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Sad to see but I'm not surprised at all ... they should be stopped from doing this
and is this any different than the sellers on ebay (and other sites, etsy etc) who re-sell individual patterns taken from magazines and books, that are just torn out or copied ??? I'm not sure ... but it doesn't seem right to me.
and is this any different than the sellers on ebay (and other sites, etsy etc) who re-sell individual patterns taken from magazines and books, that are just torn out or copied ??? I'm not sure ... but it doesn't seem right to me.
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