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I received the latest "At Home With Needlework" magazine yesterday. Inside there's an attractive Hardanger table runner, but as I was looking over the charts/directions today, thinking about stitching it, I was appalled at the poor instructions. The chart is broken up into four smaller pieces, which is fine, but there's no "linkage" between them to show the overall design. There are apparent color codes on the stitching chart - circles and squares - but nowhere is there a box listing which color goes with which symbol. There's a suggestion for a coordinating placemat, and a listing for what size to cut the fabric, but no chart or suggested adaptation of the table runner chart. Lastly, there's no finishing instruction - how to turn under the hem or even where to start stitching in order to have material left for a hem.

Wait - I just noticed that this is "part 2 of 2" (printed unobtrusively on opening page photo. Maybe this info was in Part one? But then shouldn't they at least repeat the color symbols and starting point/hem instructions, and say somewhere in the article "See issue XXX for part one"?

Very sloppy. Pretty to look at, but not appealing to actually stitch.

Almost everything in this magazine is part of a series, so you need multiple issues to complete a project.

I won't be renewing.

Sue

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Susan Hartman
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Dianne Lewandowski

There are a lot of magazines that Amazon doesn't have. "At Home" is one of them. "At Home with Needlework" is Zweigart's needlework magazine. I was unable to find pictures of the contents anywhere online (I didn't do an exhaustive search, but when nothing showed up on the first page from Google....) Zweigart's site

doesn't even show the covers of this year's issues.

I was never impressed with the technical side of "At Home", and their designs do not appeal to me at all.

jenn

-- Jenn Ridley : snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com WIP: Poppies (Art-Stitch), two knitted tops, Oriental Butterfly Most recently Finished: Floral Sampler, Insect Sampler

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Jenn Ridley

Hi Jenn,

Funny - I got one and only one issue left of the 3-4 I bought/were given; it has a ladybug. The projects didn't appeal and the directions were terrible.

Wouldn't even pick it up out of the free pile.

C
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Cheryl Isaak

This reminds me - the other day I went to Hobby Lobby just to wander, see if they had anything at all (knowing full well they have severely cut their needlework section). They did have some new stuff - but it was all exactly the same as the old stuff - not one thing that might appeal to someone who wants something edgier. The stuff (to me) all looked like stuff you would see used to insult your grandmother's taste.

I tell you, Urban Threads, Pimp Stitch, Sublime Stitching - they NEED to get into this - probably HL won't carry them (waaay too subversive), but maybe Target or Michael's or some chain we don't have around here!

linda

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1961girl

Oh dear. That doesn't bode well for its survival. But it never ceases to amaze me what survives and what doesn't.

Dianne

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Dianne Lewandowski

I doubt Michael's would, but I bet Amazon would....

Cheryl

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Cheryl Isaak

I fully realize that not every magazine is going to appeal universally, but this just seemed poorly done.

Cheryl

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Cheryl Isaak

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