Honest to goodness review of MSQ Block magazine
Just got my second Block magazine. I have to say that it is a beautiful publication with heavy weight paper and lovely photographs and sweet introductory stories with the quilt patterns. But to be terribly honest it is not without advertising. Every single pattern is an advertisment for MSQ. The main objective for the magazine is to sell pre-cut fabric and rulers that are used in every quilt showcased. Now before all you MSQ fans want to tar and feather me this review is my honest assessment of the magazine and a viewpoint that certainly needs to be shared so quilters can be better informed. And as a way of caution especially to beginning quilters, the majority of MSQ tutorials for quilts and blocks have bias edges exposed and if you are not very careful sewing these blocks together you will have distortion in the quilt top. I personally avoid exposed bias edges all together. As a long-arm quilter these quilt tops are also very hard to quilt without distortion. It does help to stabalize the edges with a border and if not using borders to stitch around the perimeter of the top with stay stitching.