Originally Posted by
Rosyhf
An idea, technique or a method can not be copyrighted. What is copyrighted is the writing of it. You can write it in another way to explain it, in your words.
Elenore can only copyright her instructions, not the technique the chain piecing in itself. The same applies to strip piecing, which is a techinque.
Here is a link that will tell you several methods for making a fractured quilt.
http://www.ehow.com/about_5105668_de...-painting.html
I have found several different quilt artists, who have written books and all tout the same method or technique for making such a quilt, so you are safe to tell about this method that everyone is writing about lol. I can take one of my crazy quilt tops and fracture it all over the place and I can sew a bunch of strips together and sew them every which way and that would be fractured and best of all I can post it all here for all of you to see to your heart's content.....techniques and methods and whatever have been around forever.....no one person owns them, they just use them to do their designs.