patricej

i won't subscribe to a magazine unless i can get it electronically.
magazines are usually too full of ads, with - at most - one pattern i haven't seen rehashed under a zillion different names, a zillion different times.

less clutter in my sewing area; easier to pick out only those things that are of genuine use.

jeanequilts

Have your tried an app called issuu?
It has all kinds of magazines, and I think you can print off pages from the app.

DonnaC

I subscribe to an app called Readly which I believe is run out of Switzerland. Works on both Android and IOS. It's fantastic! Plenty of quilting magazines from many countries at one low price per month. Lots of variety. If you do other crafts there are just loads of magazines. Seems like the UK and Australia still have lots of craft mags even if we don't!!

DonnaC

Forgot to say - if I want to print any patterns from my e-mags, I just take a screen shot on my iPad. I can then send the page to my wireless printer. Not sure what your setup is, but that's what I do.

ckcowl

I’ve had a subscription to The Quilt Pattern Magazine ( TQPM) since they began, a number of years now. I like having the digital magazine, I can download and save it, look up any pattern anytime and print off what ever I need. They also have an online group that is free to join if you are a subscriber.

leighway

Even tho I'm computer savvy, I have not developed a love of reading anything on a tablet, especially magazines...they don't have any life in them. However, there have been changes lately with some of my favorite magazines -McCalls and BHG All People Quilt and frankly, the changes are bad. The death of Laura Boenke as test quilter left a terrible gap. She was very talented and so far, no one has come near filling her shoes. Both pubs I mentioned seem to have become more elementary and boring. Meanwhile, Quiltmaker which used to be elementary and boring has become more interesting..not enough to have me renew, however. So....I'm close to stopping my American pubs and looking overseas. Someone on this board mentioned that AU and UK have very interesting pubs and I agree....I'll be heading that way and if I have to get them electronically then I'll spring for maybe one...and it's time to start going through my mags and culling...all my Quilter's Newsletter collection went to a kindergarten teacher (she was thrillled) and I haven't missed a one!

Onebyone

I bundled my magazines and gave them away too. I couldn't believe I held on to them for so long. All patterns in them are online and much easier to search for one then going through piles of magazine pages like I would do that anyway. I get two mailed subscriptions, both gifts, and I keep one , Quiltmaker, for a couple of months and then take to the guild free table. The other, Block, I keep as it is more like a book then a magazine. No more magazine stacks for me.

SusieQOH

I got rid of all my magazines several years ago. They don't interest me anymore. It's probably because of the internet.
I've never had an e-mag so I can't comment on that.

Kwiltr

Thanks for the comments regarding printing. I’ll have to try to see if I can print from my laptop as I can’t seem to get patterns to print from my iPad unless I do a screen shot.

tuckyquilter

Thank you for the magazine location. OH and I LOVE your signature statement...
It's a true statement.