Originally Posted by
Ms Midge
I've emailed Kate to ask permission to use the pattern for my month as queen in my quilting bee, and she's said yes. Anyway, i'm searching online for the same block but with a tutorial/pattern that is already in a pdf form or similar, to save me from scanning the paper pattern I have!
I'm confused ... if you have a scanner (or copier) and the pattern ... why continue looking for something?
Also, when Kate gave you permission to use the block, did she also give permission to "distribute" the pattern? And does SHE have the rights to the pattern? The rights to the pattern might be owned by the Fat Quarter Shop if they were the ones that distributed it. Wondering if Kate understood what you meant by "permission to use the pattern in your quilting bee".
Lastly, if indeed Kate understands your intention to print multiple copies of the pattern to distribute it, she probably has a name and indeed a PDF she can share with you.
Hmm ... I just found this link and I think this is where you got the block.
http://www.fatquartershop.com/2014-d...k-of-the-month
If the above link is where you got the block, then I was correct and the permission you need to seek to reproduce and distribute the
pattern belongs to Fat Quarter Shop.
Note that I said "reproduce and distribute the pattern" - meaning the exact pattern they have distributed to you. It would not preclude you from making your own pattern to look like the same block and distributing it (providing you don't copy the FQS pattern verbatim). As shown above ... draw the pattern out in EQ7 and paper piece it.