Christmas projects... part one

So I was very busy the month of December in the sewing room, but until opened, the presents had to remain a mystery! Well no longer! Now all can be disclosed cause it is the day after Christmas!

For Mike's family, they decided to do a gift exchange, so I was making gifts for both of my sister - in- laws. So, I knew immediately that I was going to make this: A Garden Caddy (I tried to link it but apparently it is not on the website anymore) over at Michael Miller Fabrics. Anyways, here is the tote I made:

This is actually the second one, in which I was able to make all the needed adjustments to the pattern to make it turn out even better. I must say though that I wished that I had made the back fabric (that is red in this picture) the army green and the pocket edges (that are army green here) be the red accent. But I went with what Mike said since it is his relatives.... and since it was too late to change it before I saw the colors together. (It would have just balanced better..... the green is more dominate in the rose material and therefore would have been better to be the more dominate color in the caddy.)

Which leads me to the next question.... at what point does a pattern stop being someone else's and becomes a new pattern.... I ask cause the pattern at Michael Miller fabric's (When I , or I should say Joanna) printed it last year, was so horrible that I ended up only being able to use the main concept of it and the measurements.... and even then I thought the measurements were a little off too. So does that mean that I could write up the new pattern and it not be their pattern anymore??? and could I in turn then sell it at an etsy shop..... that is the way to make money at an etsy shop..... selling either the pattern or the kits to make something, so that it can be easily reproduced and home mass-marketed....

And no, I don't know yet how the two recipients of the garden caddies liked them.... I haven't talked to the wonderful ladies, to know if they even knew what it was.... being that they had to be mailed and such, we were not able to show them off or demonstrate them....