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I sometimes wonder how designers feel about pattern hacking -- do they love that someone admires their handiwork that they want to incorporate it into something new and unique? Or do the designers think of it as a bastardization of their work?
Maybe I could call myself a designer, I'm not sure. I just love to create and I sometimes remember to jot down notes during the process and then share them. I personally would LOVE to know that something I created inspired someone else's creativity.
(Just to be clear, I'm not talking about stealing someone's work/pattern and calling it your own. Although, that does beg the question of how far removed from the original does something need to be before it's a new pattern. That's a question for another day.)
Today's WIP (work in progress) is a pattern hack. I'm taking a lovely crochet dress pattern, The Sunrise Sunday Dress & Top, and turning it into a skirt. I absolutely love the dress, you can read all about that in my review, but I think a stand alone skirt based upon the pattern could be something really pretty.
Little Abbee is sponsoring a giveaway for the Sunrise Sunday Dress pattern, but it ends today! (September 7, 2016)
In other yarn-y news, The Yarn Fanatic Party is back! Please come link up your knit and crochet projects -- and anything else that uses yarn. The party has returned to a weekly format. I hope to see you there!
Do tell me your thoughts about pattern hacking! Do you do it? Are you a designer? Do you hate it?
I use other peoples patterns to make things....for example on my blog today, I used a couple of granny squares, added a couple of rows, and incorporated them in a blanket. I didn't use the colors exactly the same. I guess I should have credited where I got the patterns. I will in my next post. I didn't consider it hacking since I didn't claim them as my own, and they put them on their blogs for others to use. Personally, I think crochet and knitting have been around for so long, how can anything be new!
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(WIPS: Pattern Hacking) This is interesting to read about, I had never heard anything about this subject before.
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting. I've had to tweak patterns to fit a certain size but never like this before
ReplyDeleteI'm guilty of pattern hacking myself when I'm working with someone else's pattern...I can't help it! I think I'm an artist and I have certain opinions about design.
ReplyDeleteI just became a pattern designer (plastic canvas designs), so I haven't experienced someone hacking my designs yet. Gosh, I'm not sure how I'd feel. I'd like to think I would be delighted! But probably part of me would be upset if the hacked design didn't agree with my sense of style.
I can't say that I pattern hack because I don't think I am sure of myself enough to successfully make something other than the original pattern. I love what you are making.
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