Inspiration from old Quilting magizines
#32
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Location: Twin Cities, MN
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Too funny! We were visiting my in-laws this weekend. While the DH, FIL and MIL were playing ping-pong with the 2DD's I grabbed a stack of old quilting mags from my MIL's sewing room. It was fun to see how much, and how little has changed in the last 8-10 years.
#33
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Location: Centralia, WA, USA
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I bought a bunch of early 80s Stitch& Sew magazines at one of our local thrift stores. I found the perfect pattern for my wife's quilt in the August 2005 issue of Better Homes & Gardens American Patchwork & Quilting. I love the old magazines. There's a lot of patterns plus line drawings for quilting the quilt. Some of the drawings would make good applique patterns as well.
I don't get too caught up in magazines repeating patterns. There are a lot of patterns out there with the same shape blocks but different color schemes and names. It's pretty easy to repeat a pattern and not even know it. I like checking out books and back issues of magazines at our library and I always browse the book section for sewing related books at the thrift stores too. A pattern doesn't need to be new to be good.
Rodney
I don't get too caught up in magazines repeating patterns. There are a lot of patterns out there with the same shape blocks but different color schemes and names. It's pretty easy to repeat a pattern and not even know it. I like checking out books and back issues of magazines at our library and I always browse the book section for sewing related books at the thrift stores too. A pattern doesn't need to be new to be good.
Rodney
#34
I love them and go over the old ones about once 6months. I put a stack by my bed and start there. I have post it notes on the ones I like and write something on the note. I will have to go to the used book store around here and see if they have some. I never see them in the thrift stores.
#35
I haven't met a quilting magazine I didn't like. (of course some are liked more than others.) When I go through a magazine the first time, I use post-its to mark the ones that catch my eye. The next time I go through that same magazine, I sometimes wonder "what was I thinking?!" And sometimes I try the design or use parts of it.
#36
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Manitoba
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I do the same. I sometimes need the inspiration and sit and look for hours. I used to piece all by hand, so am quite adept now at converting templates to rotary measurements! And like one of the other quilters mentioned, I too noticed that they often repeat patterns and I have found some of the new 'copyrighted' patterns in some very old magazines...
#38
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that loves to do this. I love getting new "old" ones. The older the better in my book. A lot of them still have a lot of full size patterns in them.
#39
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Yorkville, IL
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I LOVE old quilt magazines...I prefer quilts from the '30's style. I sit with a stack of old magazines and my "Post It's" and mark the ones I think I will do someday. I recently went through a stack of ones I marked a couple of years ago and it was fun to see what I had chosen before. Some I kept and others I passed on to my quilt group. I can actually go through a magazine and then start back at page 1...LOL
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