Originally Posted by
BettyGee
Respect the work of others, don't pass it off as yours, don't try to sell it as your design and take monies for it. Respect the creativity of the designer, use it to create your quilt; just don't tell or try to sell it as if it were your idea.
I believe we respect the work of the pattern designer by laying down our money for the book/pattern. It seems to me the quilt we make using the pattern is our work, not theirs.
I can't imagine there are many quilters going around misrepresenting their quilts as original pattern designs, or many non-quilter recipients of quilts even aware of pattern as a separate design element.
Has anyone here given a quilt to a non-quilter and been asked if you designed the pattern yourself? Do you always make a point of informing a non-quilter recipient that the pattern was not an original idea?