Originally Posted by Treasureit
There is a new idea for you...start a magazine for advanced designer quilters! Or maybe start with a blog and share your ideas or sell them. Be the next Eleanor Burns of designer quilts!
I would read them...don't know if I would do them yet, but I can always try!
This is a good idea but I think it would be more about techniques and ideas - I think advanced design quilters want to create their own rather than follow a pattern. I've stopped getting the magazines for exactly the reason you state - yet another square in a square block pattern, usually made with a particular range of fabric. Just seems like an ad for that manufacturer sometimes...
But then, like others have said, newbies need to be given the confidence of every detail, that's how we learn. And to see colours and fabrics that work together, already picked for you, hopefully you can begin to get the confidence to design your own quilts. But I do think there is a gap in the market between these quilting magazines and the fibre arts magazines which go much more into mixed media. (I love that too but sometimes it strays a little too far away from 'quilting'!)
Sorry to waffle on, I think the point I am trying to make is that patterns in magazines are largely for newbies or not very confident quilters so by their very nature will be simple. Advanced quilters want to design their own quilts or are more into techniques they can make their own than step by step patterns. :-D