Selling Quilts?

[brook]

What are the rules/guidelines for making and selling quilts? Being that most quilts are not originals, yet some are, what patterns can be used for selling? Let's say I was going to make the x's and o's quilt that Jenny showed us how to make. Is that a public domain pattern or private? If you buy a pattern from someone, does that person have to give their okay for you to use it?
Just wondering.

[bubba]

It normally says on the pattern whether or not you can use it for resale purposes. I think that applies to mass marketing, nothing you should have to worry about.

[kelliedi]

maybe i didn't understand it right but I thought when you bought a pattern you BOUGHT the right to make that pattern, because when you use the pattern you will use different fabrics or quilting because no matter how hard you try no two quilts are alike. I also thought that the making of a pattern meant that you made a copy of the pattern to sell and claimed it as your own...(like on a copy machine,) and that this was prohibited. I could be wrong.

As far as Jenny's tuts i really think that you are ok with making and selling those because they are on the internet for free (YouTube) you may have to give credit for the pattern tho.

[jet4361]

I have no experience selling quilts at all. But I have looked at hundreds of quilts omline, some were for sale and some were just show and tell. It seems most of the time the quilter states who made the quilt pattern and which fabric lines were used. I am not sure if that helps, just an observation on my part.

[bubba]

Kellie is correct, a lot of the designers also ask you give them credit for the pattern.

[kensington]

Jenny is pretty clear that her fortay is making something old new again. She found a new way to make HST and she utilizes precuts. Most of the blocks she uses in in videos is a block someone else has made, she just has figured out the short cut precut way.

You can use any pattern you bought or got off of the tutorials to make a quilt you want to sell. Just don't take credit for designing that block you use, chances are... someone else did it a long long time ago.

[brook]

Just checked out a site that is at Crafts and Copyrights FAQs. MANY things are copyright protected. Not sure I wanted to see that site. They didn't say specifically about quilts (that I could find) , but they did address "crafts". On "Quilts For Sale" they had this site as the one to follow for submitting your quilts for sale.

It is very narrow on what you can use freely. : (

[brook]

Jenny is pretty clear that her fortay is making something old new again. She found a new way to make HST and she utilizes precuts. Most of the blocks she uses in in videos is a block someone else has made, she just has figured out the short cut precut way.

You can use any pattern you bought or got off of the tutorials to make a quilt you want to sell. Just don't take credit for designing that block you use, chances are... someone else did it a long long time ago.

I like this answer much better. I don't want to take credit for the pattern, I just want to make a quilt to sell.

[Mchelem]

maybe i didn't understand it right but I thought when you bought a pattern you BOUGHT the right to make that pattern, because when you use the pattern you will use different fabrics or quilting because no matter how hard you try no two quilts are alike. I also thought that the making of a pattern meant that you made a copy of the pattern to sell and claimed it as your own...(like on a copy machine,) and that this was prohibited. I could be wrong.

As far as Jenny's tuts i really think that you are ok with making and selling those because they are on the internet for free (YouTube) you may have to give credit for the pattern tho.

You by the right to make the pattern "for personal use" only. Not to create 10 quilts and sell them.

A lot of fabrics state "not for commercial" use on them as well. And copyrighted fabrics all state that.

[slamb13]

If you are making a quilt using traditional blocks, I wouldn't think you'd have any problems selling. Those patterns have been around 100 years are more and are surely public domain.

I wouldn't rely on some random "craftsandcopyrights" website for your info, either. You have no idea who put that site together and the site said it hasn't been updated since 2006 anyway, so who knows whether it's right or not!