Tarie
31-10-2009, 02:36 PM
Ok I've had a request for my angel pattern. The angel can be seen in my album about my fair submissions for 2009. I'm more than happy to share my pattern. The question I have is "Is it enough my design for me to have the right to share it?"
I saw a doily pattern in a library book I thought was pretty. I tried to do the pattern as described to make a doily but no matter what I did it would not lay flat. I repeated the center ring and round over and over making tiny changes trying to get it to lay flat. Then when I got it to where it was only slightly curved I thought that maybe if the second row was exceptionally flat I could force the first one flat while blocking. So I did the second row as described except I didn't read carefully enough the section that described how far apart the joins where to the first round. This was important because each round was followed by a row of crochet so I could join anywhere I chose. So with my lack of caution I did too many of the repeating pattern and the second row look like a ruffle. So after I finished that row I put my finger through the center ring and held it up in all it's non flat glory and just starred at it in dismay. I would never get it to lay flat! LOL But while I starred at it I realized it looked a lot like the top half of a skirt for an angel dress.
I had wanted to find an angel pattern so I could make an angel for the fair so I decided to make it up myself. I chose a smaller thread size and redid the center ring with twice as many of the repeating pattern as the pattern called for since I no longer cared if the darn thing layed flat. (To my annoyance it was PERFECTLY flat! LOL) So then I intentionally did the next row with too many of the motifs and did a few repeating rows that were the same until I had the skirt as long as I wanted it.
Then I did the first round again and used it to make a collar for the dress but I did it as written so it would be smaller. At least I think it was as written it's hard to remember. Then I took the general motif from the first round of alternating cloverleafs and a single ring with the cloverleaf joined at the base and designed a bodice that eventually joined to the top of the skirt. Again using that pattern with the cloverleafs and a single ring I designed sleeves. But during the sleeves I alter the chains to make them smaller so they wouldn't ruffle until the last row.
Now that the dress was done I had to design wings. At first I just tried to use the repeating coverleaf/ring look again but I was going to end up with a huge gap in the center of my wings so I scrapped that I started with a split ring base to tat around. I made a row of split rings that got progressively larger and then added cloverleafs that got larger so that the center base structure would start out narrow and end wide so that when I tatted around the edges it would be a wing shape. Then I made a small circle from the orignal doily pattern but with tiny rings to be the lower half of the wing and attatched it to the bottom of the split ring/cloverleaf triangle. Then I used the alternating cloverleaf/single ring pattern except with tiny rings all around the split ring center. I had to alter the counts as I went to keep the wing edge straight as I tatted around the cloverleaf section of the center structure. After I had two of these wings made I just stitched them to the dress. By this time I had alread made the inner dress lining and the doll so the wings aren't just sewn to the tatting.
So my question is am I really the designer and I have the right to give out the pattern? Or is it so heavily based on the original doilly that it would be copywright infringement for me to do so?
The doily pattern is from a book I got in the library and I don't remember which book it was. I did a search online just now and that library only claims 3 tatting pattern books though I could swear there were more. They are
Easy Tatting by Rozella F Linden
A New Twist On tatting: More than 100 Glorious Designs by Catherine Austin
and Tatting; Patterns & Designs.
The Doily was pattern number 42 on pages 132 & 133. I wish I knew which book it was!
Any who what do you all think?
I saw a doily pattern in a library book I thought was pretty. I tried to do the pattern as described to make a doily but no matter what I did it would not lay flat. I repeated the center ring and round over and over making tiny changes trying to get it to lay flat. Then when I got it to where it was only slightly curved I thought that maybe if the second row was exceptionally flat I could force the first one flat while blocking. So I did the second row as described except I didn't read carefully enough the section that described how far apart the joins where to the first round. This was important because each round was followed by a row of crochet so I could join anywhere I chose. So with my lack of caution I did too many of the repeating pattern and the second row look like a ruffle. So after I finished that row I put my finger through the center ring and held it up in all it's non flat glory and just starred at it in dismay. I would never get it to lay flat! LOL But while I starred at it I realized it looked a lot like the top half of a skirt for an angel dress.
I had wanted to find an angel pattern so I could make an angel for the fair so I decided to make it up myself. I chose a smaller thread size and redid the center ring with twice as many of the repeating pattern as the pattern called for since I no longer cared if the darn thing layed flat. (To my annoyance it was PERFECTLY flat! LOL) So then I intentionally did the next row with too many of the motifs and did a few repeating rows that were the same until I had the skirt as long as I wanted it.
Then I did the first round again and used it to make a collar for the dress but I did it as written so it would be smaller. At least I think it was as written it's hard to remember. Then I took the general motif from the first round of alternating cloverleafs and a single ring with the cloverleaf joined at the base and designed a bodice that eventually joined to the top of the skirt. Again using that pattern with the cloverleafs and a single ring I designed sleeves. But during the sleeves I alter the chains to make them smaller so they wouldn't ruffle until the last row.
Now that the dress was done I had to design wings. At first I just tried to use the repeating coverleaf/ring look again but I was going to end up with a huge gap in the center of my wings so I scrapped that I started with a split ring base to tat around. I made a row of split rings that got progressively larger and then added cloverleafs that got larger so that the center base structure would start out narrow and end wide so that when I tatted around the edges it would be a wing shape. Then I made a small circle from the orignal doily pattern but with tiny rings to be the lower half of the wing and attatched it to the bottom of the split ring/cloverleaf triangle. Then I used the alternating cloverleaf/single ring pattern except with tiny rings all around the split ring center. I had to alter the counts as I went to keep the wing edge straight as I tatted around the cloverleaf section of the center structure. After I had two of these wings made I just stitched them to the dress. By this time I had alread made the inner dress lining and the doll so the wings aren't just sewn to the tatting.
So my question is am I really the designer and I have the right to give out the pattern? Or is it so heavily based on the original doilly that it would be copywright infringement for me to do so?
The doily pattern is from a book I got in the library and I don't remember which book it was. I did a search online just now and that library only claims 3 tatting pattern books though I could swear there were more. They are
Easy Tatting by Rozella F Linden
A New Twist On tatting: More than 100 Glorious Designs by Catherine Austin
and Tatting; Patterns & Designs.
The Doily was pattern number 42 on pages 132 & 133. I wish I knew which book it was!
Any who what do you all think?