MTS

Dotty,

With all due respect, I think you totally misunderstand the nature of copyright protection and copyright infringement, especially regarding patterns, regardless of which side of the pond you are on.

Those are MY instructions.
Written by ME in MY words.
Measurements calculated by ME.
Drawings made by ME (via my licensed copies of various software).
Moi, moi and moi.

As I stated above, I had not a clue what an advent gift was, much less a quilt block made for one.
So it is highly improbable - like, impossible - that I would have a pattern in my possession to copy, or even to use as a reference.

You want to know the one infringement on this whole thread?
While Ariane probably doesn't know it, but re-posting the picture in the op, without permission from the photographer, was an infringement.
Now, I get that it's the interweb, and things are so easy to copy, and everyone thinks it's a free-for-all, but most just don't realize it.
And the mods here never do anything about that so I just shrug it off.
But using a simple link would have sufficed, and been the proper way to show the photo.
Next time. ;-)

To me, this whole thing was just a mathematical exercise.

If you notice in my somewhat lengthy posts, I usually NEVER, ever post photos by others, and the posts are always link-heavy - exactly because of that issue.

I even had a bit of trepidation when I marked-up your own pictures on the JP thread.
And I specifically mentioned how uncomfortable I was marking up the picture from Cheryl's .pdf instructions.
So I think I'm pretty consistent on the issue.

Nor do I ever pass off work as totally mine without giving credit, or at least a shout-out for inspiration, to the source - as best as I know it.
(unlike a good portion of posts in the Pictures forum - you don't find out until the 2nd page of replies that the quilt in question was, in fact, an EXACT copy of a published pattern. Makes me want to delete my - what a great design and color selection comment - since, duh, the poster didn't actually do any of that.)

But I digress.

I assure you no copyright was infringed upon by anything contained in my posts.

Nor, btw, did Angie even mention a pattern on her blog, just that it was a workshop.
You might suggest to her that she also slap her name and/or blog address on all her photos.
I'm sure the photo was copied and downloaded, not just from her blog, but from here as well, and it will be copied even more, and in those cases there will be NO way to even track it back to her - if she did have a pattern for sale.
Or just to give an "inspired by the Advent calendar on Angie's blog, blah, blah, blah."
I'm sure she would appreciate the shout-out.

Which I'm sure Ariane will do when she posts her finished block.