General Terms of Use for Piece By Number 's Free Paper-Piecing Patterns

Many of Piece By Number's original block patterns and quilt designs are distributed freely on our web site with the hope of reaching a wide audience of quilters who will enjoy sewing them and using the finished items in their homes or giving them as gifts. However, our patterns and designs are protected by international copyright law and certain restrictions govern their use. Please contact Piece By Number if you have a situation not covered below.

Thank you for your interest in Piece By Number's patterns and designs -- without your understanding and cooperation with our Terms of Use, we wouldn't be able to continue offering them!

• Personal Use: Permission is granted to individuals to use the copyrighted patterns, designs, and written information offered on Piece By Number's web site for personal use only (including gifts). Individuals may share these patterns and designs with friends and guild members in their original form (as printed from the internet) with the Piece By Number name, web site address and copyright statement intact.

  Permission for personal use also includes making, display and photography of a quilt or pieced project from one of our patterns/designs as part of a show and/or competition. Please credit Piece By Number as the source of the design. Good luck -- may the most beautiful entries win!

• Use of Patterns/Designs to Make Items for Charity or Donation: Quilt guilds and other quilt groups may use Piece By Number's patterns/designs to make quilts and other items for charity without charge or requesting further permission, either to give the items made directly to those in need, or to create items used to raise money (such as a raffle) for charitable purposes. This does not include the use as fundraisers for guilds.

• Use of Patterns/Designs to Make Items for Sale: Quilters and crafts people may create a maximum of two items for sale (does not include your personal use or for gifts) of any free block pattern or quilt design on Piece By Number's web pages without charge or requesting further permission. If more than two items will be made for sale with any block pattern or quilt design, then a licensing fee is required for that use, either a percentage of sales or an annual licensing fee for unlimited use during a calendar year.

  The percentage of sales fee is five percent (5%) of the retail selling price (pre-sales tax) of the items made. Alternatively, for a small home-based business, the annual licensing fee is US$60, covering the use of any and all of the free patterns available on Piece By Number's web site (not US$60 per design per year). For larger-scale creation or wholesaling of items made with Piece By Number patterns and designs, please contact us.

  These conditions and rates apply only the free patterns on our web pages, and do NOT include the use of any current or future Piece By Number retail patterns, or any component blocks thereof. Use of Piece By Number retail patterns for commercial purposes requires separate licensing fee negotiation -- please contact us.

• Reproduction and Distribution of Patterns/Designs For Inclusion in Guild or Shop Newsletters: Quilt guilds and shops are welcome to include a single Piece By Number block pattern or quilt design in their newsletters, provided that the Piece By Number name, web site address, and copyright statement are included with the pattern/design and are clearly legible. We appreciate the opportunity to provide a high-quality printed copy of the pattern for use in the newsletter instead of your using one printed directly off the web, and also would appreciate receiving a copy of the newsletter in which our pattern/design appears -- however, these are not absolute requirements.

• Reproduction and Distribution of Patterns/Designs for Classes and Workshops: Piece By Number's free patterns and designs may be used by teachers for classes and workshops, under the following conditions. If the class or workshop is being offered by a guild or a shop, whether or not the teacher receives payment for the instruction, the cost per block pattern/quilt design per student is US $0.75 (except series quilts, which are US $2.50 per student). Minimum order per block/quilt design is patterns for 6 students. For this fee, Piece By Number will provide a high-quality block pattern via PDF format (or paper pattern, if preferred) for photocopying for students. On classroom pattern copies, multi-unit blocks are separated with 1/4" seam allowances added around each unit for ease of piecing by students. Any special instructions for piecing the block are included on the pattern page.

  Teachers who wish to use one of Piece By Number's patterns or quilt designs to teach children (under the age of 18) may do so without charge or requesting further permission.

• Reproduction and Distribution of Patterns/Designs For Sale or on Other Web Pages: Reproduction and distribution of Piece By Number patterns and designs for sale, or for inclusion in kits are prohibited without prior written permission from Piece By Number. HTML "hot" links from your web pages to Piece By Number pages are permissible, but lifting of any patterns, graphics or instructions from our site for incorporation into other web pages or any other media is prohibited without prior written permission from Piece By Number.