Originally Posted by Maride
I found an issue (the second one, I think) of Quilt Life. ....I picked up the issue and went home. I have been reading it for two nights and have still not found a single article worth reading. There is nothing new, nothing interesting, just same old stuff and a lot of ads. Have I said that I hate ads? I am happy I didn't get a subscription.
Am I the only one who thinks like this? What is YOUR opinion?
Yes, there are lots of ads in magazines. They make the magazines affordable. Mail and printing costs are sky high. Basically, putting out a magazine is like publishing a little book. If there weren't any ads, a single copy would cost as much as a book.
I love the Quilt Life magazine. It concentrates on quilters and on different topics that would interest quilters. The recent issue was chock full of interesting bits. There were had articles on two male quilters with unique perspectives, Joe Cunningham and Eric Wolfmeyer. Another article described the Peace Quilts project in Haiti, women helping themselves through quilting. And there was another article by Laura Fisher about a quirky antique alphabet quilt. I was fascinated.
The article of most interest to me was a challenge that they gave to 5 different quilters- a plain yellow and blue star quilt- and asked them to quilt it. The array of quilting styles was astounding!
I find the Quilt Life refreshingly different from other quilt magazines, in that it doesn't concentrate on patterns. If I live to be 100, I will never use all the patterns available to me. I have every copy of Quilters Newsletter since 1969. I have dozens of quilt books.
With the internet, the patterns are infinite. I don't need to see another pattern for a 9patch, log cabin, or pinwheel quilt. I love these old standards but I can do these myself with no help, no pattern, in a dozen different settings.
I'm more interested in people and their creativity.