Hi Everyone! Thank you for the great feedback!
Someone has hacked into my podcast page, and it’s kind of icky. So I’ve been trying to update all my links to my new podcast page. Please change your links too: http://materialmama.typepad.com/
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I wanted to jump in to make a few things clear. This is a free site I have done as a service to other mamas.
I don’t spend much time here, I’m not going to be answering questions etc. If you want to jump in and help by answering others in the comments, that’s fine.
Some were asking where the pictures were. I have them hosted on Flickr. I didn’t have the money to upgrade the account until recently. Yes, this costs money, it’s not all free on my end. I appreciate any paypal or RME donations (see sidebar) you can make to help the site. But you know, you get what you pay for and this is all free LOL.
I also do not give sewing advice. There are many sites that can be very helpful for learning to sew, sewingmamas is one of the sites I own with a lot of great and informative mamas.
You may sew any of the items on this site, as many as you wish, for fun or profit. You have free use of all of these patterns, so long as you have a link back to this site on every diaper or item you sell, or at least on the tag. Call it pay it forward.
Love, Nutmeg
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okay I totally lied. I’ll be creating a .pdf pattern over the next week. I finally figured out how to do it. Hurray!!!
Love,
Nutmeg
You’re awesome. Thanks for this site. It’s been incredibly useful. I think you’re the same nutmeg who does material mama… Thanks for that too!
It’s a nice info. I hope this info can help other people. Keep it up.
awesome patterns..
Something I learned today: you can sell anything you make from any pattern, any time. The owner of the copyright of a pattern has rights that relate to copies made of the pattern itself but that’s it. Anything that is made from the pattern is not covered by the copyright. Ever. Once a person buys the copy of a pattern the pattern’s copyright owner has no say in what is physically done with the pattern. You buy it, you own it, and you can cut it up, make something out of it, resell the original pattern (as long as you have not made a copy of it), or sell anything that is made from the pattern.
Read on if your interested. http://www.tabberone.com/Trademarks/CopyrightLaw/Patterns.shtml
I for one have been very careful for years about selling what I sew, especially when it comes to diapers. I even considered buying an expensive (unnecessary) license to sew and sell diapers to earn extra income. If I had known then what I know now I may be a WAHM instead of a SAHM.
I also wish this site had been available when I was sewing diapers, it’s pretty awesome.
Yes Isadora, you’re correct. The problem happens when WAHM’s get greedy and don’t’ understand the law. They will blackball a newer seller for ‘infringing’. It’s a small WAHM world.
You do NOT need to be licensed to sell anything you reverse engineer, but if you sell without you risk getting the shaft by the WAHM community.
That’s why I made this site. I got sick of the “YOU STOLE MY ORIGINAL IDEA” train of thought
~ Nutmeg