Originally Posted by
gypsylady5
Here is your answer. It is dumb to think that they can patent a pattern, but they can patent the way they did a certain design or quilt. Just don't copy them, change them in some way so that you are the original of that use of the pattern. Dumb isn't it!
Take one of my favorites again, the Carpenter's Wheel. How many ways can there be to WRITE instructions? You can do smaller 4 blocks sections or you can set it together in rows (or columns which amount to the same) but what could possibly be a method of setting a simple block together the one of us or a few generations before us have not done?