Originally Posted by Olivia's Grammy

After all the pages of this thread. I'm afraid to buy another pattern. I haven't sold my quilts, yet, I usually give them away. But if I wanted to sell a quilt, is there a quilt police checking every quilt ever sold? I understand it's an ethical question, but it sure is taking the fun out of quilting and replacing it with fear. When a LQS makes a quilt for a sample and then later sells it, do they have to have to asked the designer? Who has this kind of time? Find the designer's address, write the designer, wait for the answer. In the mean time has the buyer changed their mind? How much of the quilt design can you change, the color, size, quilting design stitches? I could not make something exactly the same if I tried nor would I want to.