Originally Posted by Mamagus
Same old patterns and ideas with the latest "must have" fabric lines being featured. Are the magazines owned by fabric companies?
No but they are selling advertising to the fabric companies and in some cases the advertisers will also supply a project which the magazine will run (a) to get the advertising revenue and (b) so they don't have to pay someone to write those pages or take those photos.
You would be amazed how much of most magazines is just recycled press releases. This is not just in quilting magazines.
And yes I am bored with quilting magazines too, although I do browse the newsagents every so often to see if there is one worth getting. Even my favourite, Quilter's Companion, which gives a DVD every month, is not that different from what you can get for free on youtube.
I think that the publishers must be getting pretty worried.