Are You cutting back your Quilt Mags & Paid Onlines?
07-19-2011, 04:04 PM
#72
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Originally Posted by isnthatodd
I have only 1 new subscription I paid for, Quiltmaker, 1 as a gift, McCall's quilting, and one that is expiring, Quilter's Newsletter, which I don't particularly enjoy. I am not going to purchase any more subscriptions. I have enough patterns now to make about 200 quilts, which I will never get made. :lol:
07-19-2011, 04:11 PM
#73
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Location: Las Vegas, NV
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I cut out most all of my magazine subscriptions. Just too much money (cuts into my fabric $$$) and I'm sure I will never live long enough to make all the quilts I have patterns for, even the easiest of ones...LOL
07-19-2011, 04:22 PM
#74
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Originally Posted by donnajean
I'm a retired "Media Specialist" & I stopped subscribing to magazines several years ago. There is just so much available on the Internet now that I don't think it necessary to keep paying subscriptions. If I made 1 quilt a week, I still would not use all the patterns in my binders during my remaining lifetime.
Donnajean I'm with you i'm also retired and the cost of 6 month subscriptions adds up fast. I currently have one sunscription, about to run out, and that will be it for me. There are more free patterns available to keep my kids charity quilts fresh and different for as long as I'l be able to quilt.
07-19-2011, 04:51 PM
#75
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Location: west central Illinois
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I unscribed my quilting mags because I have so many patterns, anymore is just sensory overload. This board and the free sites give me more than I will ever do in ten lifetimes. I do still look at them in the grocery store, just buy the one that I have to have at the moment, but usually I see patterns that are familiar, and am not even tempted.
07-19-2011, 05:47 PM
#78
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Location: near Dayton, Ohio
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I quit getting my magazines a couple of years ago. There is tons of info on the net, and I did not want to lay out the money. I thought that I would really miss them, but I have not. I am especially happy now that I found this site.
I even sold most of my magazines at my garage sale.
I even sold most of my magazines at my garage sale.
07-19-2011, 05:59 PM
#79
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Location: central Indiana
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I no longer take any magazines (quilting or others), nor do I purchase them at the store. I do not do any paid on-line subscriptions, either. I occasionally will check a magazine out at the library. While I enjoy looking at them, I found I never made any of the projects in the magazine and then I would just store them for years. After going thru my late MIL's belongings and know what is ahead of me at my dad and step-mom's house, I have decided I do not want my kids to have to deal with a bunch of stuff in my house. I have been discarding stuff like crazy lately! And, it is so nice to have an uncluttered sewing room....I actually feel like I can now sew and enjoy myself in there.
07-19-2011, 06:23 PM
#80
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Location: Apple Valley, CA.
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I also dread the fact of my kids...all boys deciding what to do with my sewing!! And I have quit magazines also as I have enough to keep me busy even after they slam the lid...LOL!! Between the charity quilts we do and QOV...I am stacked with projects!! I gave away fabric to another friend who does charity...the last of the $2 a yard calicos from Ben Franklin found a new home. I pass the quilt magazines I have along to others.
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