Maybe I'm not understanding the original question....If a quilt pattern is published in a magazine that we buy, then as far as I am aware the pattern is not copyright protected as long as we make it for personal use or for gifting. Making it for entry in a quilt show with money awards for placing should be fine unless the magazine the pattern is published in states contrary. As long as it not sold to make money for the quilt maker (not the quilt designer). Otherwise, why would patterns be put out in magazines??