Originally Posted by ghostrider
The artist/designer/writer of the pattern has every right to limit the commercial production of her work if she chooses to do so. She is not acting the least bit dishonestly, as you put it. I would like to see your source of information.
Not so.
The designer has no rights to the item produced from the pattern.
However, I would not say she was dishonest, she might be thinking that she is correct even though she is not.
Actually, I can't think why someone would even try to restrict what people do with finished products. Maybe they think that by restricitng the sale of products from their designs, that the persons who buy those products might then turn around and make their own products from newly purchased patterns if they can't buy the item already made.
Not so.
People who buy finished quilts are not likely to be people who would make their own quilts! At least not to a large enough number for the designer to bother worrying about.