Buy the Pattern!
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Buy the Pattern!
I like to think that I am fairly good at figuring out how to assemble most blocks.
But - there are some designs - such as the ones that Judy Niemeyer (and other designers) creates - that it is just simpler to buy the pattern - even if paying for it causes me some pain.
How much time and effort will you put into avoiding actually buying the pattern?
But - there are some designs - such as the ones that Judy Niemeyer (and other designers) creates - that it is just simpler to buy the pattern - even if paying for it causes me some pain.
How much time and effort will you put into avoiding actually buying the pattern?
#2
I'm happy to cough up money for patterns, if it's a design I really like. Granted, most I could figure out if it's simple math, but it is so much easier to let someone else do all that for me! As for Judy Niemeyer's patterns, I would never try to figure those out! Her patterns are worth every penny!
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I make mostly scrap quilts and most of the patterns are free on line, but, I don't mind buying a pattern if I like it and have a real intention to make it. I have made one small Judy Niemeyer wall hanging and one of her Quiltworx patterns. For the Quiltworx one, I found a pattern very similar made with strips, which I bought, because it was very laborious with paper piecing.
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I worked in advertising and especially the creative department for a few years and I'm big on copyright protection. I'm also big on fair use which does allow you to make a direct lift of something for personal use. Even though I did draft up my version of Elizabeth Hartman's Hazel Hedgehog pattern that is exactly what it was which was someone else's distinctive work with no independent concept-- so I bought the pattern.
But I'm not going to buy a pattern on some variation of something traditional. All I need to do is see it and store it away in a corner of the quilt brain.
I am much more willing to buy books on techniques I want to learn than basically a single use pattern. Don't know why that is...
But I'm not going to buy a pattern on some variation of something traditional. All I need to do is see it and store it away in a corner of the quilt brain.
I am much more willing to buy books on techniques I want to learn than basically a single use pattern. Don't know why that is...
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I like to think that I am fairly good at figuring out how to assemble most blocks.
But - there are some designs - such as the ones that Judy Niemeyer (and other designers) creates - that it is just simpler to buy the pattern - even if paying for it causes me some pain.
How much time and effort will you put into avoiding actually buying the pattern?
But - there are some designs - such as the ones that Judy Niemeyer (and other designers) creates - that it is just simpler to buy the pattern - even if paying for it causes me some pain.
How much time and effort will you put into avoiding actually buying the pattern?
#8
If it is a simple pattern (by my standard of simple) based on squares, triangles, rectangles that is obvious how to piece it and the sizes that would be needed w/ straight forward math, there is not a chance I would "buy the pattern" If I look at it and either can't figure out how to make it or believe the pattern maker may have a better (easier) technique then what my mind comes up with, that is a pattern I would (and have) buy. If it is a fpp detailed picture I "could" make that pattern, but would not, I would buy that pattern. I hate making "test" blocks so the likelihood of me "blindly" following someone else's pattern is pretty slim, I would still draw out my own to test the size and make sure they are using the full 1/4 inch seam allowance. The exception to this is the detailed pictoral fpp those ones I do go on blind faith.
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What usually happens to me is that I see a quilt that I absolutely have to make, and after researching it, find that it is *An original design, that the designer has no intention of selling a pattern for.* Then I will, and currently am in the process of spending hours, figuring it out. If it's something that seems basic, I just go for it, and figure it out on my own. I have no problem though, buying patterns. In fact, I bought 3 patterns this weekend. No clue when they will get made, just wanted them!
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