Oh yes, people were copying so much that I stopped selling the finished designs as other folk were making more money than me, then I wrote them all down as knitting patterns, transferred them to PDFs and put them all out there on the net. I make far, far more money and as I allow others to sell what they make the original copiers had too much competition so they didn't sell as much. Hah! The only trouble I have now is people knitting my designs and selling them as their own which is annoying. (Just to add that I do complete and send off a tax return every year).
