Originally Posted by auntpiggylpn
I'm sooooo confused! Can I sell a quilt i made from a purchased pattern and can I sell something made out of licensed fabrics? I read both links and I'm still not sure. . .
these days to sell a quilt you have to ASK the designer of the pattern!
Some say NO and some say GO! According to the first use, yes you can, but only ONCE! As in don't reproduce a dozen turning twenty baby quilts and bring them to the bazaar...I know for a fact that ATkinson designs says NO to selling their items...I wrote and asked about the new lunch bags they have a pattern for and was told most indignantly NO..you can NOT use their patterns to make anything to sell! That would be the yellow brick road people. SO I went online and found a nice tute on making a lunch bag for FREE...their loss and I politely sent them the link to the FREE patterns and said "thank you" for sending me to look else where!
BUT, even the FREE online patterns can have limitations! You have to read the fine print and ASK...
Chances are if you live in a rural area you might can get away with it..even in our SMALL city of 50K, the big colleges send snoops to every craft show to bust people using the college logo fabrics, or making things that are NOT licensed thru them. It gets crazy.
Last holiday season there was even a Disney rep. at the BIG show and he nabbed 19 violators! The fines are crazy AND they seized all the merchandise right then and there!
You just never know...it isn't like it was during the crafting hay-days of the 80'-90's! BAck then folks like Suzanne McNeil promoted crafting via their instruction books...now they publish the book on how to make things but want to Prohibit the sale of those items....for what...who knows...must be GREED...