Back Again

It's been quite awhile since I've posted anything. I was disheartened about a situation with one of my pincushions which I was going to teach at our local Sewing Guild back in January and I didn't feel like sharing very much after that situation.
I had shared a pattern for a pincushion with my group, Crazy About Pincushions, and had asked that it be used for personal use only. Someone used it to make pincushions to sell on Etsy. Someone else called to tell me they had a copyright on the design. I couldn't teach the pattern to the Sewing Guild and had less than 24 hours to come up with a whole new program.
Sooo, from now on I probably won't be sharing patterns. I can't be sure they aren't copyrighted even if I think I've designed them myself.
Despite the setback to the class at the Sewing Guild, it went well and everyone was happy with their completed pincushion. I talked a bit about the history of pincushions and pins and brought samples from my collection of pincushions.
I've been busy making lots more pincushions these days as the 3rd weekend of this month the Lansing Area Patchers are hosting a Quilt Show at the Summit and the Heart of Michigan Decorative Artists will have a booth at the quilt show. We will be selling raffle tickets for a beautiful hand painted quilt PLUS we are allowing our members to bring items they have made or painted to sell. I will be bringing lots of pincushions to sell. I've been slowly working on them for months, and now I am panicking and trying to make a whole lot more to have available for sale. I'm doing my best to design them myself so no one complains of copyright infringement.
Right now I have to get back to sewing! I'll take pictures to share in a few days.