I was on pinterest & didn't know it :)
 

Friends have told me that I should join Pinterest. So I finally took the plunge & joined last night. There are lots of quilts to look at and as I was scrolling the quilts what do I see....my quilts. There were 3 of them. I guess people from this board liked my quilts enough to pin to their Pinterest! I'm shocked, surprised and a bit on cloud nine to think that someone would do that. So, a big THANK YOU to the ones that gave me such a big compliment!

I enjoy Pinterest. You Tube and Pinterest and you can make anything. LOL

Imagine my surprise when a Dresden baby bib I had designed and made wound up on Pinterest and it was pinned by someone and linked to a pattern designer with requests for them to do either a tutorial or produce a pattern for it!! No effort to contact the original pinner for information on it.

Wow, that's something that I didn't think of, but then I can't design things. I've been quilting 3 years & just now feel like a "confident beginner". I imagine if you are a professional quilter that you should make sure your name is on all your pictures.

Well, I'm certainly not a professional designer :p but that is a good idea to put name on photos!

I love Pinterest too. So many beautiful rooms to view there also.

I enjoy pinterest as well, yep i found two of my own quilts on there... it happens

pins that are not from the original source are my pinterest pet peeve. People do it all the time. I've been known to find the original post and post the link as a comment. Or if I repin I always repin from the original post or I won't pin at all. Pinterest gives me gray hairs sometimes but I still love it.

I've looked on there, but never joined.

I regularly pin some of the beautiful quilts from the boards. I always try to type in QuiltingBoard.com and the user ID.

I like to go back to the original post site. Then I will create a new pin so the "owner" is recognized. The original site often gets lost when something is pinned over and over again.

It is fun when you find your quilt on Pinterest - I found one of mine too and it had to be pinned from here. :)

Pinterest gave everyone a jolt to their notions of what they believed about copyright law.

One of my pic from QB made it onto Pinterest. Can't say my quilt as it was just blocks laid out on my bed. I took it as a compliment. Someone liked my work enough to tell others.

I always go to the original source after I got a nasty gram from Pinterest about original content from another pinner that I had pinned .. WOW!! People need to really look at things and think about what they are pinning ! At least in my humble opinion ! LOL
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Interesting, it is one of those "on the fence" things. I kind of think it is wrong to post someone else's work without giving them credit, but on the other hand.......

I love Pinterest! It saves me paper, clutter and time. I respect the wishes of those who don't like their work pinned but from my point of view it's a compliment to see my projects pinned by others. I'm not a designer or have any intention of being one.

It's just a great way to note a block, a layout, a tutorial or even just an inspiring color combo that I like and might want to try later. I dislike having tons of bookmarks to wade through when you can just look at a Pinterest board and quickly scan the pictures.

I too have had my quilts pinned from here and I also considered it a huge compliment that someone cared enough about my work to pin it.

I also recently set up my own pinterest account but I think I only know enough about pinning to be dangerous. Most of my repins are from other pins. I have yet to figure out how to pin from the web! So I set up two boards. One of my own stuff and one of other peoples stuff. I really don't have a clue if my repins are referencing the original source or not.

The way to find out is to click on your pins. If they go to the pages where the actual picture and/or article is, then it's pinned from the original source. If not, for example, if they go to a blog homepage or a website where you would have to search for the picture, or if they go only to the picture itself, or my other pet peeve, a site that only has pictures from pinterest and NO original content, then it's not pinned from the original source. If I'm pinning a recipe I make sure my pin leads directly to that recipe. If I'm pinning a tutorial I make sure it leads to the actual tutorial.

To pin you can do it one of two ways. You can go here: https://help.pinterest.com/entries/2...-Pin-It-button and follow the instructions to add the pin-it button to your browser. Or you can simply click on the + sign on the pinterest homepage (next to your username in the upper right), choose 'add from a website' and add the url manually.

Oh my....I bet I am guilty. I am fairly new to Pinterest and I really have no idea how it works. I just pin things I see and like. I have no idea where they come from. So guilty! :( Maybe some one would want to give a short edu on it for people like me.

Asked and answered - the post right before yours.

Hope this helps! :)

Here's a link to my quilting board, "Quilty Goodness", on Pinterest. Maybe you'll see one of your quilts there!

http://pinterest.com/bonbonevans/quilty-goodness/

I also have knitting and crochet boards, if you are interested. You might find something you want to make! Pinterest is wonderful!

Fun quilts you've pinned, I will follow it! Here is a link to my boards: http://pinterest.com/sallyjwalker/boards/

I am more than honored when I find one of my quilts pinned on Pinterest. I usually can't help myself, and make a comment, at least to say "thank you", and of course I always "like" the pin ...tee hee ;)

I am more than honored when I find one of my quilts pinned on Pinterest. I usually can't help myself, and make a comment, at least to say "thank you", and of course I always "like" the pin ...tee hee ;)[/QUOTE]
I was definitely honored, but I guess I never really thought about someone not liking it. I checked your pins out and what beautiful quilts. Fun way to pass the time just looking at quilts.

I too just started pinterest. I have a lot to learn about it. But normally i like to go to the original site the picture came fom.

Maybe I just haven't run into the problem you're talking about. Even if I repin from the most current pinner, I still have to click all the way through to get to the original info, tutorial, or pattern. I usually do pin from the original, but I have repinned from others. If it's just a photo with no info, I can't see that it matters. In fact, I think I always pin tutorials rarely if ever do I pin a plain photo.

Here is mine :)

Http://pinterest.com/wendysquilts/boards

I have people pinning some of mine as will. Its nice to see that they repin, but not sur if they say source on all of them. I think I typed that address correctly. :)

Thank you. :o
I know how to pin. I just want to know how Pinterest works....

I enjoy Pinterest and I try to credit the origin if I know it. Sometimes, things have been repinned so many times, the origin gets lost in the shuffle. So if I have ever pinned something from someone on this board and not given correct credit, please let me know and I'll fix it right away!

Thanks! I repinned several of yours - including all of the Winding Ways - you pinned some nice ones.

Ideally, it works by providing photo links to the original website from which the photo (and hopefully some text) originated. Realistically it isn't this way at all. Technically, I have no idea how it works. Only how to use it. lol

Just wanted to let everyone know that I felt the pinnings & repins were a compliment. After posting this thread I realized that maybe not all feel that way, but I felt honored by it.

You have a great Pinterest spot too! I spent way too much time and repinned a lot of pins. Thanks for steering me there!

I love pinterest.. second to the quilt board of course. I have done many of the crafts and recipes from it.

You have GREAT quilting boards. I'm following them all now! Thank you.

Here's my list of boards. I have several different quilting ones plus a sewing board for non quilt projects, a pillows board, and a crafts board. I do have a lot of duplicates because when I separated my sewing board into different boards, I didn't want to delete the original pins in case anyone else had them repinned and might lose the links.

http://pinterest.com/galegale/boards/

If you send me a link to your boards, I'd love to follow you too!

If you send me a link to your boards, I'd love to follow you too!

I am following you now!

I feel the same way Debbie! That is why, when I see one of my projects repinned I "like" it and usually make a comment, sometimes just a simple "thank you". I have repinned lots of things from this board, there is so much talent and inspiration here. If you send me a link to your boards, I'd love to follow you!