Table runner pattern in latest Quilting Daily magazine is recycled content from 2012
01-13-2026, 04:09 AM
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Table runner pattern in latest Quilting Daily magazine is recycled content from 2012
I am so disappointed. While reading the Mar/Apr issue of Quilting Daily on my library's Libby app I saw the awesome "Color Pools" table runner by Deborah Vollbracht. It uses a very cool technique of folding circles to create a cathedral quilt look.
When I followed the links in the magazine I found all the links were broken and I learned the pattern was originally published in McCall's Quilting magazine in 2012.
They don't indicate anywhere in the QD issue that this content is a reprint.
It's even more frustrating that if you like the pattern there's no way to purchase it except by buying the old McCall's issue off eBay.
It's nowhere to be found on Linda Vollbracht's website either.
How much content in these quilting magazines is old recycled content? I would be very frustrated if I had paid for a subscription.
When I followed the links in the magazine I found all the links were broken and I learned the pattern was originally published in McCall's Quilting magazine in 2012.
They don't indicate anywhere in the QD issue that this content is a reprint.
It's even more frustrating that if you like the pattern there's no way to purchase it except by buying the old McCall's issue off eBay.
It's nowhere to be found on Linda Vollbracht's website either.
How much content in these quilting magazines is old recycled content? I would be very frustrated if I had paid for a subscription.
01-13-2026, 06:23 AM
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Quilters who started quilting ten/ fifteen years ago have no idea. Bringing back the known and presenting it as new seems to be the trend these days. I see so many post on Facebook about a new quilting discovery, and I think hey I did this decades ago. Now the big NEW thing is cutting a mat to fit a lazy susan and making a rotating mat. Posters are going nuts saying why didn't I think of that or What is a lazy susan? This was a thing everyone was doing before the rotating mat was manufactured.
01-13-2026, 07:45 AM
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Quilters who started quilting ten/ fifteen years ago have no idea. Bringing back the known and presenting it as new seems to be the trend these days. I see so many post on Facebook about a new quilting discovery, and I think hey I did this decades ago. Now the big NEW thing is cutting a mat to fit a lazy susan and making a rotating mat. Posters are going nuts saying why didn't I think of that or What is a lazy susan? This was a thing everyone was doing before the rotating mat was manufactured.
01-13-2026, 08:17 AM
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Be sure the tunable will not tilt or lift up when pressure is applied to a side. A quality balanced lazy susan will be expensive. Maybe find one in a thrift shop. I had my grandmothers heavy wood one with metal ball bearings. I didn't glue the mat on it I used double sided tape, so the surface was not harmed. It's now over $100 for a new one like it.
01-13-2026, 08:22 AM
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So here's the easiest and lowest cost rotating mat IMHO ... and chances are you already have it!
... Place one mat on top of another.
Cut on the top mat, leaving fabric in place.
Turn top mat. Cut again. And so on.
Voila ... you have a rotating mat!!
01-13-2026, 08:24 AM
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I don't know if anyone else has done this for a rotating mat.....My husband took an old oak barstool with a flat swivel seat and made a wooden square to fit over the seat for me. Works well because I don't have much "elbow room" on the counter next to my machine, I can put the barstool where I can easily turn around in my office chair to use it.
Yes, everything's on a swivel around here!!
Yes, everything's on a swivel around here!!
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01-13-2026, 08:50 AM
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I don't know, thinking any tool or notion that I like and use a lot is too expensive is not my way of thinking. Expensive but worth it is my thinking. Also, the question of will my kids not have lunch money if I buy this? The answer at one time would be yes, can't buy it now but those days are long gone. Buy the rotating mat you want.
01-13-2026, 12:31 PM
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I don't know, thinking any tool or notion that I like and use a lot is too expensive is not my way of thinking. Expensive but worth it is my thinking. Also, the question of will my kids not have lunch money if I buy this? The answer at one time would be yes, can't buy it now but those days are long gone. Buy the rotating mat you want.
