The 26-year-old woman, who published the patterns for free under a Creative Commons license, said that the BBC were making an example of her and called on the corporation to be fair.
"I'm just an ordinary fan, who happens to like knitting and Sci-fi, and everything has just gone a bit crazy," she said on her website.
The BBC has insisted it was not "heavy-handed" in its treatment and was forced to act after finished puppets, knitted by others, were put up for sale on eBay.
The knitting row has sparked comment across the web in threads and forums. One commenter called Sparrow, writing in theMobile Read forums, said: "Typical BBC arrogance. Isn't their telly tax enough of an insult? Time to knit a Dalek cozy?"
While Becky Hogge, the executive director of the Open Rights Group, wrote: "The approach the BBC have taken with Mazz's knitting patterns demonstrate a distinct lack of flexibility."
"It is quite possible that through transforming the characters in Doctor Who into knitting patterns, Mazz may have infringed upon the BBC's copyright. But it's hard to see how Mazz's non-commercial knitting patterns actually damage the commercial interests of the BBC."
BBC Worldwide, which owns the commercial rights to Dr Who, has extended an offer to Mazzmatazz to discuss the issue with the corporation's licensing team.
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