On one hand I am poor, the little bit of money I have to spend on my hobby could be spent on something more substantial than a bit of paper - like the actual fabric to make the bloody thing.
I got 7 fat quarters of solid fabric and 2 metres of white that already added up to just under £40! That isn't even including the wadding, backing fabric or binding! (which is something people who say I should sell my quilts fail to take into consideration - its a lot more money than people realize).
On the other hand the amount of work that goes into creating a pattern must be astronomical.
Thinking of a pattern (hard), working out the math (even harder), testing it (not only yourself but by other quilters to make sure the instructions make sense), distributing the thing (no idea how you would do this), advertising it (also not a clue)... I'm sure there are 100 other things that I have missed because I have never done it. All of that deserves compensation.
But I always come back to the first point... I don't have the money - if I did I would totally buy patterns and save myself the extra days work trying to figure it out, plus I would know how much fabric I would need and I wouldn't have to make an educated guess.
I guess my only saving grace is that all my quilts are gifts for people I know and not being sold - that would be completely wrong and that because I work out the piecing myself it's never quite the same as the original pattern.
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