But… but…
ARGH! Knitty just published this, but I thought of this years ago! Honest! Look how similar mine is, below, paired with a matching kid’s scarf! I modified the pattern and I even experimented with a flowerpot-type sleeve to go around the bit at the top, and was going to write it up. Then the Jayne hat biz exploded.
Of course I don’t have pictures to back me up, that would be too easy. Iocanthe bought the original in 2004! Look, there she is! She’ll vouch for me!
But now, can I ever make and sell mine and have anyone believe that I didn’t copy Knitty? AARRRGH!
AAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHH!!!
(ETA: I didn’t say before, although I thought I had, but I did think of adding a flower to the top, and that’s what cheesed me off. Guess I shoulda written it up sooner, eh?)
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Hmmmm, maybe because yours is about fifty times better looking than the one in Knitty? Cute kid notwithstanding. I dunno, I just think yours looks more structured than the one in Knitty.
Hmmmm, maybe because yours is about fifty times better looking than the one in Knitty? Cute kid notwithstanding. I dunno, I just think yours looks more structured than the one in Knitty.
I dont know about knitting patterns, but in patent law you go for at least two or three points of difference.
1. it looks like the shaping is different on yours
2. theirs has that blocky stripe, yours doesnt
3. the tops are totally different
I think you’re ok 🙂
I dont know about knitting patterns, but in patent law you go for at least two or three points of difference.
1. it looks like the shaping is different on yours
2. theirs has that blocky stripe, yours doesnt
3. the tops are totally different
I think you’re ok 🙂
Looking back, I said it totally wrong in my original post. After I made that first one, I thought “boy, this would be cute with a flower on the top, sticking up from an i-cord. I need to write that up.” Now that, nobody’s going to believe.
Looking back, I said it totally wrong in my original post. After I made that first one, I thought “boy, this would be cute with a flower on the top, sticking up from an i-cord. I need to write that up.” Now that, nobody’s going to believe.
the “flower on top of a hat, attatched with an I-cord” is not a unique thing… I saw several such patterns for sale in my LYS the other day. heck, even the “stripey hat with a flower on top, attatched with an i-cord” isnt unique.
hmmm.
come to think of it, what DOES make the knitty one unique? just that the editors/people who pick who gets in hadnt seen it before? (not a critique, that’s as good a criteria as anything…)
its a dang cute hat you came up with 🙂
the “flower on top of a hat, attatched with an I-cord” is not a unique thing… I saw several such patterns for sale in my LYS the other day. heck, even the “stripey hat with a flower on top, attatched with an i-cord” isnt unique.
hmmm.
come to think of it, what DOES make the knitty one unique? just that the editors/people who pick who gets in hadnt seen it before? (not a critique, that’s as good a criteria as anything…)
its a dang cute hat you came up with 🙂
I think a lot has to do with the quality of the pics that people submit. I have other hat ideas I’ve thought of submitting, but somehow I just never have the time to write them up properly. Oh well.
Thanks, I did this as a way to use up a third of a skein of Iro (all the bits that aren’t purple) and… uh… some purple yarn that I can’t remember now.
I think a lot has to do with the quality of the pics that people submit. I have other hat ideas I’ve thought of submitting, but somehow I just never have the time to write them up properly. Oh well.
Thanks, I did this as a way to use up a third of a skein of Iro (all the bits that aren’t purple) and… uh… some purple yarn that I can’t remember now.
Personally, I think your hat is pretty different. I guess it might raise some eyebrows in certain corners, but . . . different yarn, different shaping, more flower stems = different hat, to me.
Personally, I think your hat is pretty different. I guess it might raise some eyebrows in certain corners, but . . . different yarn, different shaping, more flower stems = different hat, to me.