This is a really ticklish situation and there are many well thought out comments. When you purchase a pattern or a magazine the designer has received the payment for their product (design) Now, in its original form it is yours to do with as you please-in its original form. If you do not use the pattern the designer still has been paid. If you use the pattern you have gotten fair value for your expenditure. If the pattern designer or magazine state that it is for personal use you are bordering on the unethical if you use it and then sell it. If you do not use it and sell it you are simply recovering money that you can use for other things and it probably isn't unethical. But to sell someones work (design) in any copied form is unethical and very dishonest. We as quilters should want to show that we value the work of others by using the product in an honest way. The reason we buy patterns and magazines is because we cannot do what the designer has produced. Remember the golden rule-it applies here.