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You can't sell a photocopy of someone's quilt pattern!!

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<a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/11096833/?claim=8zb3h6ka9dp">Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a> I've known for a long time that the many quilters I know wantonly photo copy patterns from magazines.  Some even photo copy a whole pattern from a paper purchase and her friend gladly allowed her or him to do so.  This practice has always eked me. I even see it going on with plagiarizing of some online work! I think that maybe I'll have my own work plagiarized like this if I teach at her shop? I'd by pissed big time if I knew that had happened to my work. Wouldn't you? Am I alone in this feeling of giving the author the credit if using someone else's pattern? This is my lovely "Medusa's Hair" quilt. I made in the mid 1990's and was learning how to work with curves. It holds a ton of memories, it even contains some fabric from my maternity shirts.  I don't get it? Why is this still going on? I even ...