The Very First and Only Y Not? quilt...

Finn Again. With another UNIQUELY mine quilt. Not because anyone "scared me" or "threatened me". It's an all flannel quilt(both sides) that came out of a challenge being tossed at my feet. After the
Thanksgiving meal one year, the gals talk turned to "my" quilts. It's embarrasing to have your DIL's family arguing because one of my son's family is getting a new flannel quilt . I have made NO quilts for my DIL siblings, parents, etc. That's just abit much!! I maybe see them once every 5 years except for baptism, First Communions, etc. They do tease alot in her family. The challenge was what could I make from the flannel scraps in my box or basket at home, without cutting more pieces? I was allowed to shorten length, but that was it. Well, if there is one thing I love, it's a challenge..*wicked grin*..specially involving scraps.
So I took them on..and the quilt above, of which you only see a small part of was born between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Did it empty my flannel scraps box? No. Am I clever? You bet! In the very top row, up next to the white HST's on the right side is a pieced letter Y. Just that. Nothing else even similar...anywhere in the quilt.And it's a royal blue with orange eye balls. It was left from making a bottle quilt for Andy. The first Y failed..so I made another one.
This became the "Y not?" quilt. It went to live with my son in MN's family as an extra flannel quilt for their north woods home. My son "gets" it...the Y,but it was way over the DIL's head. It's hand quilted with perle cotton and about a twin size.
So....................what prompted me to drag out my soap box this morning? I never see it as a "rant", altho I didn't know much about ranting til I became computer literate. I have this portable soapbox I step up onto occasionally as I feel the need. When I'm done, I get down and move along..*G*. I am capable of civil disobedience, but it's pretty rare, especially in my mid 60's.
So what going on here? The seed was planted a while back..don't remember dates...when I heard or read that a midwest quilter and publisher of rulers and books, was treatening to sue someone for use the phrase "mile a minute". She claims she copyrighted the phrase and it's her new quilt book, and it can't be used by anybody else. EXCEPT that was just last year, and friend Betsy had come across an article in a quilt magazine(which I never got to see) that gave simple directions or instruction to make the kind of block that Bonnie of Quiltville calls "crumb blocks" years and yars ago. Either name works fine for me..no problem. Kathie, another WI quilter( http://threadlines.blogspot.com/ )left me a comment or emailed me that she had seen that article and has the magazine...American Quilter or some such thing. So I didn't feel guilty that in my head, they are M-A-M blocks.
Then out of the blue, Bonnie, of Quiltville, found what appeared to be her quilt pattern and idea on the cover of someones book, and they were taking or giving credit to a whole different person. So I read the discussion, and Bonnie's feeling about what had happened. I think if we are part of the web ring where Bonnie is our ring master, we need to be aware of what's afoot. You don't want someone to use your idea, and then claim it and sell it. I totally agree.
We have SUCH a huge resource in being able to find great scrap quilts to make at Quiltville, good clear directions, great pictures, and loving fun. And good tips on using stash and cut up scraps. We are sooo lucky to have that available to use.
It all seemed to quiet down, I never heard if it was actually resolved or not. I did link over to the site that Bonnie mentions, and the gal there has a rebuttal, but I think it's weak. Just my opinion, as I said before. I poked around a bit, checked out her link page, and she actually had an outgoing link to Quiltville. So I let Bonnie know that, in the for what it's worth department. End of story.
NO. Another quilt pattern, that's on Bonnie's free site claimed by someone else as theirs, and being sold. I don't think Bonnie has a link to Acorn Quilting , but if you link to Sew Unique, she has the link to Acorn. I checked that one out also.
I still don't know what is what....but I'm standing behind Bonnie, because shes' been my friend this past year. She takes care of us and our web ring. She's our fearless leader, per . I appreciate all that we have and that she does for us.
But I got to wondering. So I began pulling out books and magazines and looking for what they "state" as rights of the publication.
I could find NOTHING in American Patchwork and Quilting, which is the only magazine I get. It might be there, but it would seem we can make those quilts with being paranoid. Tell me if you find something I missed...please!
And then I came across a statement in a quilt book I purchased last year. A BIG book that is all scrap quilts. I'm not even going to give you the title...ya...not worth the risk. IF you want to know where to look, email me, and I'll tell you.
The page, where they put their publication imfo, says, and I quote: "All rights reserved. NO PART of this book may be REPRODUCED in ANY FORM or by ANY MEANS without the prior WRITTEN PERMISSION of the PUBLISHER, except for brief quotations in connection with REVIEWS written specfically for inclusion in magazines or newspapers, or LIMITED EXCERPTS strickly for
personal use."
Now in your opinion, does that sound like I could scan the cover for you? Or share ANY part of it, it's patterns or by putting a picture of MY quilt(from their pattern) on my blog? It doesn't sound that way to me.
And why does that upset me, making me confused, and a little grumpy? Well, sit back and think about it.
Of the multiple postings over the life of your blog, how many are snapshots of our new patterns purchased to go with our new fabric? Or the scan or photo of the book with the Civil War blocks?
If I can't scan or photograph even the cover, much less the page, how could I, or anyone possibly recomment that book to a friend or to blog readers? How many times have we each violated some right or another without knowing it?
No one has ever critized anything I've shown or taken me to task about a quilt I've made or mentioned. But isn't it just a question of time til it happens?
I LOVE my blog, and my bloggerland friends. We each can have and hopefully DO have an opinion. You see, I don't DO all the work Bonnie does to share the quilt patterns she create, free for our use. Why on earth would we NOT mention her as our inspiration..much less steal and/or publish her patterns in our name?? I just don't think we are that kind of quilters...it's not about the money. I don't think it ever was or Bonnie would have approached it differently. I made my first "Bonnie" quilt way back when she only had a couple posted. It was a scrappy bargello.

I didn't know you can't put photos from a quilt show on your blog without the makers name. Now that I do, I think it's a great idea and I'd be happy to do that.
I just don't like the idea, of that "no part in ANY form" thing I read this a.m. Cause if I write down block measurements for you, or even for me, that's "in any form". And if I take a picture and/or give you the quilt measurement, you can count the blocks and figure out what size they and their pieces are. Doesn't it mean that I can't share my pictures of a quilt or wallhanging made from their book? Because that's "reproducing" in ANY form?

Just the impact on us, the quilt web rings, my gosh!! Maybe we aren't so far more that surveillance of everything we do and say, as we thought we were. Maybe BIG BROTHER is watching us as we go on our merry way. This whole thing is just nuts in my opinion. And that's what it is...me, on my little wooden soapbox...not liken' this.
P.S. You can feel FREE to use anything I show(of mine) that inspires you....LOL