Quilting Magazines-GRRRR!!!!
09-06-2010, 05:15 AM
#41
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I do not like the plastic bags either. The thing is, I make sure when I buy a magazine that the patterns are in it, my SIL bought one and the patterns were nicely torn out. So I can see the bag, but you can not see what you are buying. Some covers look so good and there is nothing great inside.
09-06-2010, 05:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Deborah12687
I use to go to the library and look at the new quilting mags first and if I found something Id want to make in it I would buy it.
09-06-2010, 06:28 AM
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I did notice that at the checkout in the grocery store & any thoughts of buying it left when I found it sealed in plastic. I don't know their motive for this but I'd be willing to bet sales will be way down. Then maybe, just maybe they will stop the practice.
09-06-2010, 06:44 AM
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I think this is a double-edged sword situation. We want the magazines to continue to be published but we don't want the advertising...which pays the bills. We want magazines to be complete and pristine with any attached templates/instructions but we don't want the plastic wrapper that insures that happens. When I was a new quilter (and less discriminating!) I had to subscribe to every magazine out there. Some I started with premier issues and stayed with them till they closed shop. Most of the time they came damaged in the mail. I hated that and would suggest to the publisher that all magazines should come in plastic. Now I don't subscribe to any magazines because it seems to me that over the 30yrs I have been a quilter the magazines just re-invent the same wheels over and over. I really enjoyed Quilter's Home when Mark Lipinski was the editor...but then I have a really weird sense of humor and this magazine was not, and was not ever intended to be, primarily a pattern magazine.
09-06-2010, 07:28 AM
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Originally Posted by JudyG
Have you seen the online quilt magazine? I think it's pretty nice. Free, at least for now with lots of good information in it. http://www.onlinequiltmagazine.com/d...qm-2010-09.pdf
I quit buying magazine a few years ago. There's usually only one or two things in them you might want and keep them for and then you can't find what it is when you want it. It's so much easier to find things on the internet and with all I save on subscriptions I can afford to pay for a pattern or two if I need to.
I quit buying magazine a few years ago. There's usually only one or two things in them you might want and keep them for and then you can't find what it is when you want it. It's so much easier to find things on the internet and with all I save on subscriptions I can afford to pay for a pattern or two if I need to.
09-06-2010, 08:16 AM
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I use to subscribe to all the quilt mags too. I decided to stop
because so many of them I'd look through and nothing interested me. I decided to just go to the store and decide for myself if I really needed it. I've come across the plastic situation too. I decided that meant I didn't need it.
The only mags I subsrcibe to anymore are Quilt Quilts and Fons and Porter. I'll just stick with those. :thumbup:
because so many of them I'd look through and nothing interested me. I decided to just go to the store and decide for myself if I really needed it. I've come across the plastic situation too. I decided that meant I didn't need it.
The only mags I subsrcibe to anymore are Quilt Quilts and Fons and Porter. I'll just stick with those. :thumbup:
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