Over the past two years I have subscribed to McCalls, American Patchwork and Quilting, Quick Quilts, Fons and Porter For the Love of Quilting, Quilt and The Quilter. My recent subscriptions are to American Patchwork and Quilting, McCalls, Fons and Porter For the Love of Quilting, and The Quilter. I've been getting their Fall editions over the past couple of weeks, and none of them have appealed to me UNTIL I received The Quilter. The quilts in it are truly great.

But, does it seem to you the others are kind of less interesting than the used to be?

I'm finding all 3 of the magazines I subscribe to are less
interesting as time goes on. But, I can't decide if it's they
who have changed or my taste and skills. Maybe a bit of both?

I think I'm coming to the conclusion that I will never get to make all the quilts I have dog-eared in my magazines nor will I use up all the fabric and notions. Yes, I am feeling like I could probably do without magazine subscriptions for a while. Change is good.

I see your point! But, I sometimes look at some of the older magazines from special sales and older quilters, and I like them better! I guess a lot of it is personal preference.

I was thinking about what you said about older magazines. I
think the biggest difference I see is the older quilts are more made with templates.
So many recent patterns are designed for rotary cutting that we seem to get a lot of squares
and rectangles. I think that cuts down on the "interest factor".

I agree with changes in magazines - I gave up subscribing to Machine Embroidery & Textile Art magazine long ago because it moved into newer crafts relating to fashion design etc rather than machine embroidery but all crafts seem to be mingling together now, especially with the embellishments and appliques progressing so well.

I'm cancelling all of my subscriptions except The Quilter
they seem to have better patterns and they srethe best to work with McCalls had an article in their last magazine saying we could not even hang a quilt in the fair without permission and I don't want to make quilts to hide in the closet so I emailed The Quilter got a very nice letter back and we can use their patterns and the quilts are ours so that made up my mind

I subscribe to Quilters Newsletter, McCalls, American Patchwork, and Quilters World. I rarely make the patterns, but its such a fun mail day for me when I get one in the mail. I keep every one, and photocopy pictures for a notebook for a future quilt I may want to make. That way, for example, if I need to make a baby quilt I can quickly look through a bunch of pictures, then pull that magazine to see the pattern.
Even though I don't make many of the quits, I would miss my fun mail day!

I think another reason most of the quilting magazines seem stale is that they are all looking the same anymore. All they do basically is change the colors and borders but very little is really interesting. And too many ads....it is all about the advertising.

I have noticed the same thing for a while now. It just seems that there are fewer and fewer quilts in magazines that I really want to make. There's a lot more smaller projects, and felted wool projects, etc. I used to get quilting today and I just loved it. I hated it when they went out of business. Seems like there was quilt after quilt that I wanted to make. I think a lot of the color schemes used today are just not attractive to me. I guess I'm too old fashioned.... or maybe just too old!!!