Monday, March 19, 2012

New Name, New Address, Same Blog

Hello to any of my quilt friends who have found me. I've been asked by a quilt shop in Virginia to stop using the name Quilt Doctor. Apparently they own it. Who knew? Anyway, I'm not all that attached to the name and for me it was just a joke, so I'm complying with their request. This means I had to change my address for my email and blog. So, if you're reading this, you've found http://bethdonaldson.blogspot.com/.

I'm sure my readership will drop off for awhile until people re-find me. If I'm listed on your blog roll, thanks and please change it to my new address, http://bethdonaldson.blogspot.com/.

Hopefully this won't cause too much trouble and I'm sorry for any inconvenience to you.

And now for some quilting news. I've got some more blocks done on the Hazel Ridge Path quilt. To see the full story, go to this blog post, http://bethdonaldson.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-project.html.


 
















Till next time.......Happy Quilting

21 comments:

  1. Obviously, I've found you --- thanks for the heads up. ...and the Hazel Ridge quilt is looking very cool --- I'm sure they will be more than pleased!

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  2. Yay! I'm glad you found me. It's going to take awhile to let everyone know. Many evenings on the computer for me. LOL. Maybe I shouldn't have shot so high and just been a quilt nurse. : )

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  3. Checking in to let you know I got your message and know where your "new" old blog will be!!!

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  4. Thanks! I really, really, really appreciate it.

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  5. Hi Beth
    Thanks for the heads up...I will change the link In my blogroll....Im glad you were able to get back in business!! when I couldnt connect to your site today I was worried!!

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  6. What a pain for you, sorry. I've added this to my blog reading list. Thanks for contacting me.

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  7. I think you should be the Quilt Whisperer! It isn't like your name isn't first anyway, but people are amazingly willing to sue. Thanks for tracking me down--now you won't be lost! :)

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    1. Quilt Whisperer is a great one. But right now I'm a little shy of using any names other than my own. LOL.

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  8. Sometimes the world just gets so complicated! Heaven forbid if a quilt shop in Virginia and a blog have a similar name, they should just get over it! Anyway, I'm glad to have found you again and hope this will be an easy transition for you. Best of luck!

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  9. Cease and desist letters from an attorney seems a little overkill to me too. Oh well, if it's that important to them they can be the only Quilt Doctor. Thank God the medical profession allows the world to have more than one doctor : )

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  10. I have heard of this happening before. I've heard of someone buying the domain name and causing problems.

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  11. Thanks for the email so I could find you again!

    It's a crazy world out there......and once again someone has turned our peaceful little community of warm-hug makers into a cut-throat business that doesn't have any heart or soul! Arrrggghhhh!

    Can't we all just get along.....and make quilts? ......only in a dream world, I know!

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  12. I want to thank everyone for the words of support, they mean a lot! It's like turning lemons into lemonade.
    Quilt On!

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  13. I'm glad that you're not quitting altogether. I'm now following this blog. There is a lot of stuff going on right now. This is just another example.

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  14. WOW on the quilt for Nick..........and you are changed on my fav list.....

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  15. Hi. :) I saw what you said to Wonky, and thought I'd throw another hit your way. Pretty crazy stuff!

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  16. I searched www.uspto.gov ( patent and trademark office) and in fact did find that Quiltdoctor had been registered as a trademark. It looks like it is registered as one word, not sure that is a significant difference to using quilt doctor as two words. What if your last name was Quilt and you earned your PhD, could you call yourself Doctor Quilt? :)

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    1. Yes, Quiltdoctor has the trademark. I decided not to fight it, because I'm not selling anything on the blog. I do have a full time job, so it's not like my livelihood is at stake. I suppose if it was an issue of fiscal survival I would've done more research before naming my blog. I just thought the name was funny! Now I just have to make a bunch on new posts and get people to click on me to get the new blog to show up on searches. Lastly, the more time I spend worrying about, the less time I'll spend quilting.

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  17. Actually, I honestly believe that Mary Ellen Hopkins was the first one to ever use the name, and I am sure she would have had no problem with others using it. They are also trying to get me to stop using it, but I don't even have a web site with that name, and what I do is a free event where I answer all sorts of questions about quilts, and I have been doing this for about 25 years, long before we even had the Internet. Well, I can always do it differently, but I think this is not really in the good spirit of quilting or sharing.

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