New Poll!

In light of the many cases of copyright infringement in the indie crafting community lately, I thought I would start a new poll this month on the topic. Unlike the many obvious copyright thefts (see Sublime Stitching, Syko, and Greenbean Baby to name only a few...) what about selling something that you made from an online tutorial?

On one hand, this is clearly a process that someone took the time to think about, work the kinks out and show you how to do step-by-step. On the other hand, it is something they offered online, free of charge to everyone.

What are the guidelines for something like this? How about courtesy? It seems like the safest thing to do would be to email the person and ask their permission to use their tutorial to sell your own projects. But what if they never write you back?

I would love to hear your take on the subject!!

Thanks,
Kristen Mary

Archie Complete

A while ago I showed photos of the Archie doll that I was making for Ronan, in progress. Here is the finished doll! I made him from a Wee Wonderfuls pattern that I found online.


This is a mini quilt and pillow that I made for Archie. Ronan might be too young yet to play with dolls but I have hopes that he will enjoy Archie and accessories soon.


Here's the happy customer! Ronan seems to be doing some kind of horrible wrestling move on him.

Minneapolis in Early Spring

And I mean early! It snowed a couple of days after this outing. I work downtown Minneapolis and our company has a photo club that meets to nerd it up every couple of months and when we are inspired we go on a lunchtime photo walk. Blake teases me and he calls it my "Finer Things Club" like in NBC's "The Office". And okay, its not that far off.



This photowalk was my first one and I was able to see the city with whole new eyes. Well, with Adam Turman's eyes really! I thought of his gorgeous artwork a lot while I was out, and could see where he got so much of his local inspiration.


On the way home we decided to challenge ourselves and see if we could photograph letters or found objects that look like letters that spelled out our company's name. Well, what do you expect when you work among engineers? It was a wonderful way to spend a Friday lunch!