Originally Posted by TexasGurl
I've gotten frustrated with some of my mag subsc. too. I've had some for years & years - but seems in the last few yrs the problems have multiplied. I've gotten duplicate issues AND duplicate bills. I didn't get my bonus booklets when I renewed with F&P either. It took multiple calls to finally get them, they REALLY need to update their website & services !!
I just read my new F&P issue this weekend and it had a WOMENS CLOTHING AD booklet stuck in the middle. I don't subscribe to a QUILT mag to see clothing ads !! If I want to shop for clothes, I'll go to the store. I want to see QUILTS in my quilt magazines. Did this BOTHER anybody else or just me ??
Also, I thought the issue just wasn't very good. Didn't see one pattern I even liked. Seems like even they have gone to mostly fabric co/ designer projects, like Fabric Trends mag & The Quilter. I don't think I'll be renewing F&P again. :(
Yes, I saw that clothing catalogue included in my magazine, and it bothered me too. That's only one of the reasons I decided to start dropping my subscriptions as they come up for renewal. I was a little miffed by it. Also, the ads are getting heavier and heavier for other stuff. I know it's how they make their money, but c'mon, there has to be a limit. Then too, I'm tired of all the repeats in the patterns. When I look back at some of my older magazines I see the same patterns just done in different fabrics. I know I'm smart enough to figure out that I can make a quilt in as many fabrics as I want to, I don't need them to demo it for me. The other thing is that I have been getting some of them for so long now that it would be impossible for me to make all the quilts that I have bookmarked, in the time I have left. So, one by one they're biting the dust and I will turn back to the back issues to fulfill my pattern needs. I'm not talking about just F&P now, but every one of them. And just as you said, the patterns are getting sort of uninspirational. I think the problem is that we have been quilting so long now that there's very little left (in the magazines) to get all excited about the way we used to as newbies.