I have made many quilts from magazines....that said, I maintain that the purpose of a magazine quilt pattern is for quilters to buy new fabric. I have seen people trying very hard to match the colors from a mag in the fabric store. I have done that once. Mostly, I like to use from my stash. I use patterns from books more as my DIL works at Leisure Arts and gets free or heavily discounted books for me. I used to buy lots of quilt magazines but hardly ever now. I take my discards to the doctors office.