Reboot: Fish Garter Belt

When one is a graduate student their job is school, well research really. In any case, that job, and planning a wedding (actually two - recently helped some friends plan and execute a wedding in 2 weeks), pretty much meant I wasn't doing much knitting-wise. Up until today I thought that meant I had nothing to blog about. But I've been working on heavily modifying version of Carol Feller's Iced. I'm putting a vine panel (from Knitting on the Edge) down each shoulder about 2/3rds of the way down the arm and giving it a 2x2 rib stitch boarder. 

Drawing of what the Cardi should look like when it's done.
Here's hoping it does.

That got me thinking, some of my most favorited items on Ravelry are of projects where I heavily modified the patterns. Now my question is: what's the copyright laws on sharing these patterns with other people? Seriously, I need to look into it because I would love to be able to share some of my ideas. 

But what I do know is that as long as I'm referencing and citing other people's work it's okay to share directions. So here directions to my most "favorited" project, The Fish Garter Belt.

Fish Garter Finished