Don't have an answer and couldn't find anything substantial, black and white, for this on the internet.
I am using Hobby Lobby fabrics exclusively. I will send an email asking for permission. Really don't care what the answer is because I am too small a business to sue.
I am using some commercial patterns that I purchase at Hobby Lobby for 99 cents. McCall's and Simplicity. I sometimes alter. Sometimes I don't. I will send them an email. Really don't care what the answer is because I am too small a business to sue.
This is a home based business although I do have aspirations of growing large enough that I can hire others to do some of my sewing. I am not reinventing the wheel. I am adding my spin which usually means different sizes of ruffles, adding contrasting fabrics, enlarging and reducing as needed, adding embellishments, etc.
I do not use patterns by pattern designers found on the internet. They are too expensive and have too many restrictions concerning copyright laws that may or may not be real. I applaud their efforts. I support their attempts at being entrepreneurs. I just can not afford their patterns.
I do not buy fabric from the internet. I need to touch and see the fabric I use. I want to know the actual size of the pattern.
On Project Runway, they go into a fabric store to buy fabrics--so as a home businesses on a shoestring--why can't I? I would love to create my own fabric and maybe some day I will but at this time, it is definitely not in the budget!
As a wholesaler of children's clothes there are consumer protection laws. I will discuss this later. However, this is another reason I use exclusively Hobby Lobby fabrics. Surely they have to follow the same safety guidelines as the rest of us!
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