Originally Posted by maggiek
Sorry. I have to disagree. Making patterns is this person's livelihood and the copyright is all that protects their income and rights to their own work. It would be like copying a book and sharing it with anyone. The author loses their right to sell the only thing they have - their intellectual property. Asking permission to use a pattern is not a big deal - it is just the right thing to do.
Except the only thing copyrighted is the pattern, not the quilt made from it, as shown in other examples on this topic.