Before I start my usual curmudgeonly Monday moan I’d like to add to last week’s post. I totally forgot to mention the bible of tatting written by Judith Connors. Here’s a link to this book which should be in every designer’s possession. If only it was then last Monday’s moan may never have happened.
Today’s moan is something I picked up from a comment by another tatter somewhere else. Probably during a flying visit to Facebook which I avoid as far as possible.
Signing and dating patterns and also adding contact details are today’s moan. When I started putting my patterns out on the internet in the very, very early days of it’s existence I didn’t date mine but did add my name!!! It was pointed out to me that it would be a ‘good idea’ to add the date so I started doing that immediately. Nowadays there are a lot of designers who aren’t dating or sometimes not even putting their names on either. This can prove very frustrating if there ever becomes a copyright question on the pattern and could be an impossible thing to prove who’s came first.
It’s also important to put a contact email address on each pattern simply so that the person who wants to work it can get in touch to ask questions. Sometimes I get questions about patterns I did almost 20 years ago - that really does ‘strain the brain’ (poor old BC3) sometimes!!!
Although I played with Dorset buttons many years ago this is the first I’ve done since then!!!