does anyone know where i can find free disney toy knitting patterns?
My neice and nephew are disney mad but i am totally broke, i have managed to get some free oddments of wool and some knitting needles but cant find any toy patterns, can anyone help please xxx
You likely won’t find Disney patterns for free. Disney is the leader in lobbying to have the strictest copyright laws enacted and enforced, and they prosecute if they discover copyright violations.
There are some sites outside the US with Disney patterns you can download.
Jessica Tromp did have embroidery and Intarsia patterns for some Disney images on her web site. I scanned the site just now and found Mickey Mouse: http://www.jessica-tromp.nl/fairisle/12%20children%27s%20color%20knitting%20charts%20kinder%20telpatronen%20inbreipatronen.htm , and Nemo so you might find others there. English is not her first language (she’s Dutch). She has a ton of free "stuff," so perhaps you can find something you can use.
This site http://www.breienmetplezier.nl/Breipatronen/disney.htm also has patterns for Disney images.
If it has to be toys, though, you might be able to get creative with some of these toy patterns:
http://www.knittingpatterncentral.com/directory/toys.php
and perhaps knit images into them.
Edited to add:
I’m not a copyright lawyer (I’m an academic), so I wouldn’t know where to think about beginning in advising you about what might happen if you, in the UK, created a design for a Disney-type toy and knitted it yourself. I do know that the Disney company has been uber-aggressive in influencing and using US copyright law and that the company has a highly skilled legal department that likes to play games with copyright laws of other countries and with public domain intellectual property. If you are curious and want to read more about their activities and how "nice" the Disney company actually is, here are links to on-line articles:
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/22/business/fi-mickey22
http://www.public.asu.edu/~dkarjala/publicdomain/Vanpelt-s99.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3547008/Pantomime-renames-dwarfs-to-avoid-breaching-Disney-copyright.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/156097530X/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
You likely won’t find Disney patterns for free. Disney is the leader in lobbying to have the strictest copyright laws enacted and enforced, and they prosecute if they discover copyright violations.
There are some sites outside the US with Disney patterns you can download.
Jessica Tromp did have embroidery and Intarsia patterns for some Disney images on her web site. I scanned the site just now and found Mickey Mouse: http://www.jessica-tromp.nl/fairisle/12%20children%27s%20color%20knitting%20charts%20kinder%20telpatronen%20inbreipatronen.htm , and Nemo so you might find others there. English is not her first language (she’s Dutch). She has a ton of free "stuff," so perhaps you can find something you can use.
This site http://www.breienmetplezier.nl/Breipatronen/disney.htm also has patterns for Disney images.
If it has to be toys, though, you might be able to get creative with some of these toy patterns:
http://www.knittingpatterncentral.com/directory/toys.php
and perhaps knit images into them.
Edited to add:
I’m not a copyright lawyer (I’m an academic), so I wouldn’t know where to think about beginning in advising you about what might happen if you, in the UK, created a design for a Disney-type toy and knitted it yourself. I do know that the Disney company has been uber-aggressive in influencing and using US copyright law and that the company has a highly skilled legal department that likes to play games with copyright laws of other countries and with public domain intellectual property. If you are curious and want to read more about their activities and how "nice" the Disney company actually is, here are links to on-line articles:
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/22/business/fi-mickey22
http://www.public.asu.edu/~dkarjala/publicdomain/Vanpelt-s99.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3547008/Pantomime-renames-dwarfs-to-avoid-breaching-Disney-copyright.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/156097530X/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
References :
http://www.jessica-tromp.nl/
http://www.breienmetplezier.nl/index2.htm
Anything with a Disney character on it would be copyright protected by Disney, and you will not find them for free anywhere. It would be illegal for anyone to try to sell them, and they cannot make them available for free in any form anywhere. Should you find any, know that you are participating in an illegal activity. You can be charged just as can the one making it available to you.
References :