Lending a pattern
#21
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I vote for your advice - sewbizgirl. No one puts value on items they don't spend their money for. If you get patterns, the pattern does mean something to you. (side note: I've loaned books with not perfect results, esp. having a hard copy book where someone else dog ears pages...sad). Besides if you loan a pattern don't they have to make pattern pieces, and if they did not buy it...what do we call that? They are still copying something they did not pay IP on. JMHO
#22
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It gets a bit more problematic for me when dealing with I'm cheap and I buy used books and music.
#23
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It's the same as that person getting a book from the library. No stopping anyone from copying patterns from those. I'm not their moral compass and don't want to be. But I don't loan to acquaintances. I can say no in a second and not feel one bit I need to explain. My quilting group friends, all buy the books and patterns that any of us show each other we like. No one has ever asked to borrow from each other anything other then recipes. We can afford alike.
#24
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I am prone to making changes to almost every pattern I use. In order to keep track of my changes, I make a copy for myself to use and I write "working copy" on it to note any changes I make. I do not write in books or on original patterns, but I do want a record of changes I have made in case I desire to make the pattern again. My working copies are kept in a separate file. I never loan my patterns to anyone and if I want to make the same project, I always purchase my own pattern.
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#26
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My friend and I sometimes work on quilts together. If I'm making one part and she is doing another, I will make a copy to have at my house. I don't keep the copy after I'm finished with my part. I don't loan patterns or books because I've loaned rulers, and never got them back.
#27
My sister and I share books back and forth however I believe we have equally purchased book over time. I have to chuckle because she recently moved and there are a couple books I would really like to be using right about now. I will give a pattern away before I would see it bootleged any more.
#28
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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I let a friend use four of my patterns , ?? about six mouths ago . have not got them back yet . I have called about
them no return call. Let your friend buy her own . She can wright the name down and buy them. just tell her you don't loan them out ( sorry )
them no return call. Let your friend buy her own . She can wright the name down and buy them. just tell her you don't loan them out ( sorry )
#30
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Posts: 540
There may be some members of some guilds (and/or quilters that are not members of any group) that cannot afford to get whatever they want whenever they want it.
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