Every designer I know uses EQ software. All start with a block and then change up the units of that block to get a new look to it. Before software graph paper was used. Anyone can take a picture of a quilt block and figure out the units on their own. I honestly don't know why anyone would buy a pattern unless it's for the construction method that has been figured out to be the easiest way. That is the big part of copyright. If you have the new quilt software like EQ it's a piece of cake to redraw, resize, revise any quilt block. A designer rule is not a law and many think it is as it's always written right next to the copyright law on the pattern. I don't buy from any designer that has rules attached. They need to get over themselves.
The new branding is to have a specialty ruler to go along with the pattern design. That's where the $ is.
Last edited by Onebyone; 12-08-2018 at 11:31 AM.