caspharm

I subscribe to American Quilter, Machine Quilting Unlimited, Quilter's Newsletter, but switching to Quiltmaker, and Block. I will buy others at the store if they appeal to me.

JanieH

My favorite is Fons and Porter - really love their patterns and like seeing quilts done in different colorways.

Clmay

I agree with Lovelyl. I too look at them the day they come in and just put them on the shelf.

SherylM

Most of the magazines that I like are by Fons & Porter, though I seldom buy them anymore. I loved Quilty and made a quilt for my son with a pattern from that magazine, but it's been discontinued. Looking back through my small stack, I have several issues of Easy Quilt and a couple of issues of Quilting Quickly, but never made anything from them.

About the only reason I buy or keep magazines now is if they cover a technique that I want to learn (got WAY more patterns than I'll ever use), and I usually look through the quilting books and magazines in our library's used book store, where I can buy them for a quarter a piece.

I bought one issue of Block and I really like it, but with so many MSQC tutorials online, I don't see a need to buy more.

quiltingshorttimer

At one point I think I was taking them all--at least 9. Decided a year after I retired that I wanted to cut back so started going through my magazine stash and marking quilts I really liked enough to actually think I might make--if a magazine didn't have at least 3 strong possibilities it went into the guild garage sale pile. I stacked them by magazine and figured out that for me the one I kept the most are my long arm Machine Quilters, followed by Quiltmaker (I especially like that they include quilting suggestions), then BH & G American Patchwork & McCalls. I sometimes will pick up Quilter World at the newstand, but found that I wasn't as interested in Love of Quilting, Quilters Newsletter (too many art quilts), Primative Quilts or Quilt Sampler, so did not renew those.

JENNR8R

Machine Quilting Unlimited... because they teach techniques, not patterns.

ccthomas

I, too, have stopped all quilting magazines. The last to stop was Primitive Quilting. I found I didn't even bother to look at the issues. Most were still in the plastic covers.

ILoveToQuilt

Thanks! I received my last QN issue and saw this info in it. I will be calling them on Monday after I go to a newstand to check out the other magazines. Perhaps then I can make an informed decision.

thrums

I used to have subscriptions, but now only to Block. It has a way of talking to the reader and has no advertising.

A neighbor and I would periodically collect our magazines, we no longer were interested in and share them. The ones that came back would go into a garage sale, to the library or to a workshop swap.

Now I only purchase magazines off the stand if they have at least two patterns I like. I used to pick them up for techniques, but there is so much available over the Internet now, I strictly focus on the patterns.

Occasionally I will peruse my magazine collection. If over time I am still enamoured with a pattern I will remove it from the magazine and put it into a plastic sleeve for my notebook of patterns and recycle the remainder of the magazine.

If the magazine no longer holds my interest, it goes in my garage sale collection, to the library or to a workshop group. The same is true of my sewing books.

SuziSew

Erica's carries 3 different Australian magazines

https://www.ericas.com/magazines/