Originally Posted by RST

There are etsy sellers who apparently believe that they invented a ninepatch and who want to sell you their pattern for making them. And furthermore, they expect you to credit them as inventor, each and every time you make a nine patch block. I actually had one of them contact me on pinterest to chastise me for not crediting her for the quilt I posted. Amusingly, I made the quilt in question before she was in kindergarten, which kind of took the wind out of her sails.