I agree with all of you, however when you work full-time and only have a limited amount of quilting time, just finishing a quilt feels like a challenge to me. I am a relatively new quilter and I suck at picking out fabrics. To me, since I'm a visual "oooh, look at the shiny objects" kind of gal and my interest in a quilt in a magazine starts with liking the colors they've chosen and then I try to get as close as I can to that, I haven't outgrown the magazines yet, but I can see when the day will come.