tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222373504029195323.post7118026733625215849..comments2024-03-25T12:09:14.937-07:00Comments on Elaine Quehl: A Hosta Class and Pattern?Elaine Quehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026673306647861262noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222373504029195323.post-74429471500013935612011-11-17T07:54:42.738-08:002011-11-17T07:54:42.738-08:00Hmmmm....Robert Genn has written that up-and-comin...Hmmmm....Robert Genn has written that up-and-coming painters copy from the masters...but like you, I want to believe that they (and we) are copying <i>techniques</i>, not <i>actual</i> images. Carolynn is quite right when she says that few students who think they require a pattern to make anything beautiful, will match your standards. They won't. As long as they stay inside the safety zone of a pattern, they won't take the risk to practice the stitching, or venture into their own hand-dyeing. I agree: keep on teaching the <i>technique</i> and encourage students to take it and run with it -- to the poppy patch, the rose garden or the hosta bed -- with their <i>own</i> interpretations of those images. Pattern not included. (And yes, if someone makes "another damned Elaine Quehl poppy", she/he'd better darn well credit your pattern on the label!Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04472013513744969837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222373504029195323.post-13759011760552519932011-11-17T06:21:26.541-08:002011-11-17T06:21:26.541-08:00Oh, Elaine, I hear you loudy and clearly! Remember...Oh, Elaine, I hear you loudy and clearly! Remember though that even though the pattern may be yours, there is only ONE Elaine Quehl and few, if any students will be able to match your standards. What I object to is the notion that blatant copying of someone else's work is fair game and no attribution is necessary. That is SO wrong. It is partly for that reason that the class I have just finished teaching involves making one's OWN pattern from one's OWN photo and making a quilt from that pattern. You and I know how much work it is but few people would understand. I can now guarantee that there are at least seven other quilters in southern Ontario who know! Hang onto your Hostas Elaine. They are YOU and they are stunning. Make the others make their own Hosta patterns once they learn the pattern making technique from you. Likely no threats there: )Carolynn McMillanhttp://rtquilter.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com