Originally Posted by
JMCDA
You buy ONE pattern = you can make ONE of whatever the pattern is for your own personal use and enjoyment/enlightenment/education... or a FEW of each item as long as they are intended for your own personal use and enjoyment.
For your own personal use and enjoyment and/or education is the key here - the designers are not selling the patterns for you to turn around and create income from them - they are selling you the right to make a copy of the item that they probably put years of hard work, time and creativity into the making of the original.
Purchasing a pattern with the intention of creating for resale/income and then selling the items you create from the pattern is an infringement of copyright...only the copyright holder has the legal rights and ability to create income from her/his intellectual property.
Are you in the USA? If so, you're well meaning, I'm sure. You are wrong. Period. Even if you put the words " for personal use only" on your package, you have no legal basis to claim this 'rule' as part of your copyright. Read the "First Use Doctrine" which specifies what the copyright holder can and cannot do with a sewing pattern. You can NOT make any of the claims you wrote in your post. The Federal Trade Commission enforces the First Use Doctrine to protect consumers from unscrupulous copyright holders.