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#25
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 175
I agree with maminstl. As my subscriptions expire I have not renewed. I do have the auto pay for the Block which I do enjoy. I look at the store and only buy if there are any patterns I think I might make
#26
Fons & Porter Love of Quilting, McCalls Quilting, Quilting Arts, and American Quilter. I like the F&P patterns because they're interesting and sometimes challenging. I really like Quilting Arts to completely change my perspective about design possibilities.
Once, I got a Machine Quilting Unlimited magazine and it's a beautiful magazine with lots of instruction about FMQ and LAQ techniques and designs. I don't do much FMQ but was very fortunate that my LAQ'er had posted a quilt of mine she'd worked on and a writer for MQU contacted her and me to include my quilt as an illustration about sashing (Nov/Dec 2014 issue)! If I ever get into FMQ, I'd subscribe to that magazine.
Once, I got a Machine Quilting Unlimited magazine and it's a beautiful magazine with lots of instruction about FMQ and LAQ techniques and designs. I don't do much FMQ but was very fortunate that my LAQ'er had posted a quilt of mine she'd worked on and a writer for MQU contacted her and me to include my quilt as an illustration about sashing (Nov/Dec 2014 issue)! If I ever get into FMQ, I'd subscribe to that magazine.
#28
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Posts: 939
I don't subscribe to any magazines any more. There is too much free stuff on the Internet. I look at the ones my local library subscribes to and I occasionally go to the bookstore, buy a cup of coffee, and spend time looking at their magazines. If I find one I really like, I may buy it.
#29
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: South East Michigan...at the bottom of the thumb!
Posts: 730
Our library has a used book room. I volunteer there once a week sorting and shelving donations. I find tons of quilt magazines! I take them home...love reading them then take back what I don't want. I get a lot of inspiration from them. I do not like subscriptions from any magazines...it seems I am always getting bills from them...But that is another story! Check your libraries....could find something good!
#30
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Tippy-top of a ridge in WV
Posts: 6,355
Does it occur to anyone that by NOT subscribing to any, if practiced by a large majority of quilters will eventually shut down magazine publication? For myself, there is only so much I want to put on my hard drive, thumb thingies and discs. I really like holding a magazine in my hands and having it there to leaf through when I sit down on the couch. Where I live, it is now almost impossible to find quilting mags in any of the stores, Wally might have two but the drug stores have none anymore.
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