MacThayer

I love the sewing tutorials on You Tube, and the on-line classes, like Annie's and Craftsy. I also like the on-line information and patterns I can access. The problem is, until I get a new computer (mine died), I can neither save nor print anything on line ;-(. Don't know when that will be. But even then, I can only print in black and white. There is just something about the colorful photos in magazines that help me to "see" a quilt, and imagine it in different colors. For some reason, I can't do this on line. I have one on-line magazine, but the majority of the rest come from buying quilting magazines from eBay and other similar places. You can get a number of magazines for less than the cost of one or two in the store. I just love leafing through magazines, over and over and over again, so I feel any purchases are worth it for magazines. I sure don't have to worry about books. I went to an estate sale and bought out an entire collection of quilting books from a woman who had quilted for 40 years. Purchased the entire lot for (gasp!) $10. It was the afternoon of the last day of the estate sale, and the family just wanted to get rid of them so they wouldn't have to deal with them. Forget the 6-foot bookshelves! I have books all over the house, and I am loving going through them. So much fun to get a book that is 50 years old, and see the manner of quilting back then, and see if I could do the same blocks as paper piecing, foundation or Jelly Roll friendly. What a riot! And she had new books as well. I swear she was buying books right up to the day she died. My husband does not entirely understand my obsession. LOL! But he does appreciate that it's important to me.

I guess I'm saying I'll take quilting information from any source!