Favorite Quilt Magazine?
#23
Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Omaha, NE
Posts: 52
I looked at the price of Love of Quilting in the store a month ago and it was $9.99, I about fainted. Hard to believe anyone pays that, a subscription of any magazine is the way to go. But I no longer subscribe since there may be only 1 pattern in any one magazine that I might use.
#24
In the past, I’ve had subscriptions to Quilters Newsletter, American Patchwork and Quilting, Quiltworks, American Quilters Society and a few more. After a bunch of years I feel like I’ve read enough? Idk. I looked at Quiltmania and decided to take it for a year. I also decided to take the Quilters Companion. Online. It’s outrageous to ship the magazine from Australia but the online version isn’t too bad. Love them both.
#25
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Greater Peoria, IL -- just moved!
Posts: 6,098
Honest and true answer, if you search you can find it again: I cancelled my remaining magazine subscription after my first year on the Board because I get more out of what the members here are doing. People are exploring/defining their areas of the art right here and posting pictures and talking the issues. All without the ads and added buying temptations!
Sometimes it is nice though, just to get something bright and fun in the mail. Nothing wrong with that. My "last" subscription was American Patchwork and Quilting. I do look at the AQS stuff each month at my Tuesday group.
Not at all the same, but I usually catch at least some of the 2 hours or so of Quilt programming my local PBS station airs each week! So I get to see the Fons and Porter season, even if not as quickly as published.
Sometimes it is nice though, just to get something bright and fun in the mail. Nothing wrong with that. My "last" subscription was American Patchwork and Quilting. I do look at the AQS stuff each month at my Tuesday group.
Not at all the same, but I usually catch at least some of the 2 hours or so of Quilt programming my local PBS station airs each week! So I get to see the Fons and Porter season, even if not as quickly as published.
#29
My favorite, Quilts with Style/Foundation Piecer, stopped publishing some years ago. It got too big for a mom-and-pop operation, but not big enough to hire a staff.
I think Quiltmaker may still be in business, but I dropped that one too when a new publisher took it over. They took out all the features that I liked best and started to publish a magazine like all the rest of their line. There used to be 2 or 3 per issue that I wanted to make; after 4 or 5 magazines with nothing but bland traditional patterns in ugly fabrics, I let it lapse.