Good grief! I have never bought a pattern! I do have several of those books that some one with landscaping skills, or far out psychedelics (sorry about spelling) put out. I go on QB and study quilts and think, "I'd like to make that, but I'd use blue batik, instead of the printed red, and more of this design on both sides, and......." And I do make the quilt and NO ONE, not even the person who made the quilt that started me off, would recognize the "copy". It has morphed so much that it is my quilt. I'm a gut quilter, not a pattern quilter. And I never thought to feel wrong about what I do. And I'm Irish Catholic and you can't get into guilt much more than those types! Do I need absolution, too?!