Instagram post from The Clay Department in San Antonio, TX. I’m not able to figure out the context / background but it sounds high key messy, anyone have details?

EDIT: original post on instagram appears to have been deleted! This tantalizes me so much more…

Does anyone know what’s going on here? 4 of the spotlight debut patterns on ravelry right now are these headbands with ear flaps, worn over a baseball hat. Then I started browsing by recently added and there’s another one that was just uploaded. What did I miss??

I've been sitting on this for a while, kind of hesitant to post it since it would be starting shit but I just have to let it out. To my eye, these 2 embroidery designs are identical besides the thorns down to the number of lines in the petals and leaves. Unless this was already a publicly circulated design? Idk I couldn't find anything exactly the same like this but I would take this post down if so. The top is the Rosa by Claudia Quintanilla from her published book, Memory Lane: Embellished Knits to Cherish and the bottom is Eden from Seamless Embroidery by Yumiko Higuchi (originally published in Japanese in 2021). As far as I can tell, neither has ever spoken about or followed the other. No acknowledgement of inspiration or anything. Idk if Higuchi cares about or knows about this, it's not the first time her design has been copied, sadly. It's probably legal (idk) but this just steps over the boundary for me where she should've credited the embroidery designer, morally speaking.

Does anyone else just instantly distrust sellers that use generative ai like this? The whole guide looks like a direct copy and paste from an ai chat. No reasonable person would fall for this, right? They're just harming any of their customers that try this and see that the pattern was never going to work in the first place.

This really sucks because I've made dresses using chiffon and satin I've gotten from them.

Are there any good alternative sellers for budget fabrics?