Me, too. The others are in a notebook with plastic sleeves. I need more notebooks! Love this method.

I have separate notebooks, and pattern storage boxes! They are sorted by category!

BUT, here lately I have decided that I will NEVER live long enough to use all the patterns and books that I have, and I am making photo copies of the patterns I really want to do, and then selling them off!

Books are next...but I am not copying any patterns out of them,..they are just going in to EQ if I REALLY< REALLY like them....

Wait. You are copying your patterns, keeping the copies, and selling the originals? Isn't that against the copyright laws or something?

Sue, if I had only a fraction of the number of quilts made as I have books and magazines, I would feel so proud! I have slowed down on buying books as the prices keep increasing, and really, I have most of what I would ever need. But it is very hard for me to pass up a quilt magazine if I see a quilt in it I like. I'm traditional and not into the artsy quilts, so I pass those by. I've become quite clever in finding places to store all those magazines. This year one of my goals is to go through them and pare them down to a more manageable size.

Wait. You are copying your patterns, keeping the copies, and selling the originals? Isn't that against the copyright laws or something?[/quote]

NO, you can actually make and keep "1" copy for personal use! This is your "working" copy. I can not sell the printed copy, or burn it to a disc if I scan it into my computer though. It is no different than copying them out of a magazine and then selling the magazine! As long as you do not sell the copy (and it can only be 1 copy), you are not violating © issues! I learned this as a shop owner who found out the hard way never to sell a pattern you did not keep a copy of for references!

NO, you can actually make and keep "1" copy for personal use! This is your "working" copy. I can not sell the printed copy, or burn it to a disc if I scan it into my computer though. It is no different than copying them out of a magazine and then selling the magazine! As long as you do not sell the copy (and it can only be 1 copy), you are not violating © issues! I learned this as a shop owner who found out the hard way never to sell a pattern you did not keep a copy of for references![/quote]

Am I a dunce or what? I don't understand. You make the copy and keep if for personal use. You can't sell the printed copy. Can you actually sell anything?

If I download a pattern, can I sell it. I have always thought that I COULD NOT. I'll have to sleep on that one and then read it again.

Am I a dunce or what? I don't understand. You make the copy and keep if for personal use. You can't sell the printed copy. Can you actually sell anything?

If I download a pattern, can I sell it. I have always thought that I COULD NOT. I'll have to sleep on that one and then read it again.[/quote]

NO you can not Sell a photocopied, scanned & printed, or Downloaded pattern!

You can photo copy a pattern for my personal use, but can not sell it! This is called a "working" pattern. Especially for patterns like Makenna Ryan, so you have a reference should you lose a piece or mess it up! I NEVER cut up the original patterns!

When I finish using my "working" copy, it gets shredded! I will never make 2 of the same quilt!

Now if it is a quilt I give as a gift, I will use the photocopy FRONT of the pattern(the picture page) to give the new owner so if anyone wants to know what pattern was used, they will know! BUT the rest of the pattern gets shredded!

I give a lot of talks to guilds and EXT office clubs about Copyright..here in Rural OK..it usually falls on deaf ears! BUT, as a pattern designer myself and being friends with many in the industry, I do know where they are coming from.

Having said that, I still will not buy any pattern from a designer who claims that I can not sell the item I made using that pattern!

I do that too. After I've looked at a new magazine, I pull out patterns I llike and patterns that I may like later and put them in the sleeve protectors in a binder........then I throw out the mag.....I was getting buried from hoarding mags from the 1990s...LOL

Thanks jaciqltznok. I am not into selling or anything like that, but I just wanted to know what it was all about.

I had no idea. I thought it was a big no-no to copy patterns unless you retain the original. So in theory, someone could buy a bunch of patterns, copy them all for their personal "working copy" and sell the still-brand-new patterns? Seems off to me.