Quilting Magazines/they are piling up!
#81
During the annual quilt show, our guild sets aside a table to display & sell the magazines guild members no longer want. We sell them for 50 cents each, last year we made over $400.00 just on the magazines, you can imagine how the table was groaning from the weight.
#82
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Mabank, Texas
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I am on step two. I have decided not to renew any magazines and use the $$$ to buy more fabric. However, I haven't reached the point where I do anything with the magazines I have piled up. I supose that's step 3.
#83
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We moved to a much smaller house and I had to go through all my quilting mags and was shocked to see how much better the quality of the quilts were in the older issues. I have dropped most of my subscriptions because of the cost...$5 to $7 per issue is more than I want to pay and most of them are loaded with advertising and the qults are something you could dream up yourself. I use my quilting books and make up my own patterns and use the money I could have spent on mags for fabric and necessary quilting notions. I do maintain my subscription to Quiltmaker and when I am done with them they go to my daughter. The other old quilt mags are up for grabs. Some have been taken to Quilt Guild and some given to family and friends but I still have boxes to get rid of.
#84
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Central, California
Posts: 450
:lol: I too have many magazines, what I am learning to do thanks to my SIL is to scan them and download the patterns and neat looking quilts and articles to my lap top and to put them on disk, much easier to store on a small shelf
#87
I stopped subscribing a couple of years ago. Some issues had two or three articles I would like to make, others not a thing. Now I browse them in the newsagent and buy one if it has something I really need to make. The cost of the mag. is less than the cost of a lot of patterns here. It is surprising though, going back through old issues, how I find something appealing now that was passed over before. Tastes and needs change. I mark each pattern I want to go back to with a colour coded post it note - pink for quilts, purple for bags, yellow for cushions, blue for embroidery, green for miscellaneous and so on. My library has 3 different titles so I can take them out for a month, scan any patterns and instructions I like, and keep them in plastic sleeves. I LOVE my magazines but now I am more discerning.
#88
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: North Kansas City, MO
Posts: 561
Guess I'm in the minority here ladies. Too few projects for the cost of the mag; most of the pages are advertisements; For us elder quilters the print is waaaaaay to small to read with a magnifying glass; Without setting up a filing system its almost impossible to locate a project you've admired in the past; Mags take up valuabe space that's better used to store fabic, Fear of paper mites/bugs invading my fabric stash - need I go on.
Most things in a magazine can be found right here on this site and stored effeciently there for future use.
This site is worth more than any subscription I've seen.
Lovya'll
Janet
Most things in a magazine can be found right here on this site and stored effeciently there for future use.
This site is worth more than any subscription I've seen.
Lovya'll
Janet
#89
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Long Island
Posts: 125
Originally Posted by Happy Treadler
I LOVE quilting magazines, too, and what I did was go through & cut out the patterns & articles I knew I wanted to keep and put them into a sheet protector & then a 3-ring binder. Tossed the rest, which was hard for me but felt great after.
I knew there were a lot of quilts in there that I would never want to attempt to make. Saved a LOT of space. In fact, I just pulled out a really cute miniature quilt pattern last week from my binder. Worked great!
Trina
I knew there were a lot of quilts in there that I would never want to attempt to make. Saved a LOT of space. In fact, I just pulled out a really cute miniature quilt pattern last week from my binder. Worked great!
Trina
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