To be a bit cliché, this shoemaker is a professional Web Developer and her child is this blog, but it was past time to launch what I have of a new design. All the content is still here, everything else is a work in progress (kind of like most of my sewing projects)!
Earlier this month, Sharon from Craizee Corners put up a post soliciting blocks for a quilt for Project Linus.
So, after my date with the Farmer this afternoon (the post for which will go up Sunday, I hope), I took a stab at the two blocks I volunteered to make for her.
The patterned fabrics were all from a stack given to me by a friend, so I’m not sure what each one is. From what I could tell from the selvedges, the two reds are American Jane, and the fabric in the ‘L’ of the green/orange block is Nest. The orange fabric is another Moda, but no clue on who the designer/what the line is.
I’ll admit that I’m an optimist and try to think the best of everyone, but let’s face it, sometimes people are willing to bend the rules so far that they break, and then they try to use duct tape and slight-of-hand to pretend they only made a little kink. Picture this: someone steals your content, pulls some tricks to make it look like they created it, and then serve you with a DMCA notice. Or, less far-fetched: you post something that you believe you have every right to repost and suddenly find yourself served with a DMCA notice.
You have recourse. You can send a counter notification that notes why you have the legal right to post the content in question.
The reasons for sending a counter notification are:
The copyright on the material has expired (i.e. it is in the public domain), therefore anyone can reproduce it.
The original material had no evidence that it was copyrighted and you have good faith belief that it is not.
This is perhaps the weakest of the excuses for recent material, because in general, your work is copyrighted as soon as it is created in a form that is copyrightable, so long as you can prove ownership.
The person who sent the original notice is not the copyright holder or their authorized agent and therefore can’t claim copyright violation.
If you are the copyright holder, this is where your proof comes in handy.
Your use of the content falls under ”fair use”.
The original complaint did not include all of the information required for a DMCA notice.
If you think any of those apply, you can send a counter notification that essentially tells your host that they cannot remove the content until the original complainant sues you.
If you are the original complainant, make sure that the offender can not easily claim any of the above. Of course, so long as you are the original creator, have a copyright notice on your site and dotted your ‘i’s and crossed your ‘t’s on the DMCA notice, the offender shouldn’t have a leg to stand on.
If the original filer does sue, or you receive a counter notification and decide to file suit, please contact a lawyer, because I am not one, and at that point, you need professional advice.
Although the deadline is seven months out, I’ve started researching for the 1812 Challenge Quilt. I’ve been doing what I can online, for now, with plans to hit the library soon.
This is an odd size to think about designing for. Most of the extant period quilts are square or counterpane-sized, some even almost-T-shaped to accommodate four-post beds. “Cot-to-coffin,” is a stretched rectangle of a size and aspect ratio you don’t often see in extant designs or in modern quilting.
In my post about current projects I mentioned a Strip-pieced Lone Star quilt that I’m working on as part of the bi-weekly Sew You Want to Quilt group I’m in. I finally finished one of the stars this weekend.
It seems I didn’t piece it well, because the center has a pretty noticeable bulge…
I think these are my three least favorite FWQAL blocks thus far, at least of the ones I’ve completed. Well, no, Wrench from Week 3 is my least favorite, but I’m not a huge fan of any of these. Also, I hope that our porch gets finished soon (starting week three without railings…) so that I can get some good photos of all of them together soon. This phone-camera-in-the-house thing isn’t working for me.
Sorry friends: I’ll admit that this post is more for me than providing interesting or valuable content for you. I just have all these ideas in my head and need to get them down in one place! Some are vague because that’s how they are in my head and others are vague because I don’t want to spoil the surprise for you or their intended recipients. I know I talked about it before, briefly, but wow! have I become even more obsessed in the past six months.
These are in no particular order, really, but a numbered list seemed àpropos. I suppose the less vague (in my head) are at the top.
I’m a little off schedule this week (or, last, technically speaking). We had plans Friday night, which is when I’ve been working on these, and then Saturday was a race day for Carl, so we traveled and were otherwise busy. But Sunday was a sew-together with the Utica Modern Quilt Guild, so I packed up my things and drove over. I was woefully over-packed. Going in, I had hoped to finish a few blocks for FWQAL and get work done on other projects, but only had time for 2.4 blocks.
Two weeks ago, I talked about how to request that stolen content be removed from the offending site. Using the methods provided by the DMCA, you can submit a request for removal of the stolen content to the host of the offending site. But how do you prove and protect your copyright?
I’m working on a bucket list for quilting, more for my sanity to get it down on paper and out of my brain than for public consumption. The #1 item is to finish the myriad projects I’m already working on. Some are whiling away in boxes, some I am actively working on. It’s gotten a little out of control; I have eight!
Looking back, I should have waited on making either Wrench or Churn Dash and used a different color scheme for one, since they’re essentially the same block. But, they’re done. And a third—Practical Orchard—for good measure.