Originally Posted by PatriceJ
once you get a legal copy of a pattern you may do pretty much what you please with whatever you make from it. a lot of designers mistakenly believe they can tell you what you can and can't do with the finished product, but they are incorrect. obviously, you couldn't claim to have designed it yourself. obviously, you couldn't enter it into any show or contest that requires entries to be the original work of the entree. and you definitely can't claim to have written the instructions and created the illustrations yourself. but if you're allowed to enter things designed by others, and you give full and proper credit where it's due, then you are still doing the right thing.
I've always wondered about this. Seemed to me a pattern designer could not tell you what you could do with the finished product you made from their pattern. So do I understand this correctly; If I legally obtain a pattern, I am free to do with the finished quilt whatever I want, so long as I am not in any way claiming the design as my own. I can sell the quilt or show it in a show (in a category for non original quilts)?