Online vs Magazines vs Books
#41
Oh I think online is so wonderful, most sites are so generous allowing people to print off designs etc. I find magazines are too full of ads . there are still the same copyright restrictions but that is fine. Videos on utube are so fantastic and you can save and view again. As a 73 year old I find it all so marvellous, disability bars me from attending many classes. All in all how fortunate we are to have all these things available to us. x Letty
#43
Online is fine but if you download like I was doing and have your computer stolen all is lost. I paid for some pattern and lost them along with my computer. I will never again pay for something that I have to download. There are free patterns in most of our quilting magazines, I cut them out and put them in binders. I don't think a thief will break into my home to steal my patterns. I use my computer to find information and I print it if I think I will need it again.
#45
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I love them all...books, magazines, online, etc. However, in the interest of keeping the brain overload down, I have narrowed down my subscriptions down to two magazines and try to avoid buying books since there is a lot of good information online.
#46
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I use all medias for quilting, I like books the best, as I can refer back to a project specific page and refresh my memory. I have files of patterns that I have printed out from the internet, and I use them also. But nothing beats the tactile enjoyment I get from holding a "book", and "feeling" the quilt pictured with my fingers. I am lucky that book cases are in every room in this house (lots of thrift store finds).
#47
Do you think there's as much (or more) pertinent information to be found online; videos on utube; quilting sites with patterns, tutorials, etc.
It seems to me that with all that's online FREE, that you can access immediately, with a few key strokes, that the other sources are becoming relics and dust collectors.
What is your preference? What do you think of the future of books and magazines?
#48
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It is a personal preference, but I want the magazine. I drag them out periodically, and go through each and every one of them. They give me such pleasure and I don't need electric to view and use the patterns.
#49
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Location: Live Oak, Texas
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I love books and magazines and buy a lot. I can only read from a computer screen a short while before my eyes start to hurt and I have a very hard time reading for long. I can read from books all day so that is where I go for information and pleasure reading.
#50
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!
I guess I'm saying I'll take quilting information from any source!
Last edited by MacThayer; 07-02-2013 at 12:11 PM.
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