Stitchers World - vent

I am so glad I didn't subscribe - I was going to and then the sale came along. I'm going with Pieceworks instead. I get Just Cross Stitch and like it, but I loved the old Stitcher's World.

Cheryl

What I would like is Mary Hickmott's New Stitches! I will let Stitcher's World run out, and will probably keep JCS . With a birthday next month, maybe I will leave a copy of New Stitches out, and hint how nice it is!!

Gillian

I have the Barnes and Noble discount card, so I buy NS there and sometimes add the odd paperback! I really like New Stitches and sometimes get the Janet Greenoff magazine too.

Cheryl

I've never found a magazine that I felt was worth the price because I might only find one or two patterns I liked in it. I usually try to get them at yard sales. A much better bargain :) Kim

Kim McAnnally said

Excellent point! I had avoided U.S. produced stitching magazines like the plague since the ones that were readily available concentrated on cross stitching. However, when I browsed through a friend's collection of Stitcher's World late last year, quite a few issues had designs that struck a chord. I knew I could modify them for surface embroidery with just a little effort so I got a subscription. Little did I know that the magazine was about to change hands and devolve into what might be considered an ad for Herschner's.

For what it's worth, I dropped my subscription well over a year ago. When I first subscribed, there were a lot of patterns I loved. By the time I dropped the subscription (which was actually pre-Herschener's), there'd be entire issues with not one pattern that interested me. And maybe it was just me, but it seemed like fewer projects, too? Considering I'm not fast at finishing projects, I decided that I had plenty of previous issues with patterns that did interest me, so it wasn't worth the money when I had tons of other patterns I could stitch up.

Barbara

In yesterday's mail, there was an envelope from Stitcher's World. My first, admittently bizare, thought was that someone from the magazine was lurking here, had seen my vent, and wanted to open a dialogue about my dissatisfaction. I eagerly ripped the envelope open and found an offer to renew my subscription, which I know has quite a ways to go before it expires, at a special price.

Given this discussion, I chuckled, giggled, laughed, etc. because it was such a coincidence or ... (I'm stuck for a better word/phrase)

It's your karma to be haunted.

I recently cancelled and asked for a refund from a gardening magazine I had previously loved and now find boring. (as opposed to the one I adored, as it is a local effort and now will cancel was it has gone hopelessly New Age and I don't care to know certain details of various authors personal lives)

Cheryl

unappealing and

anne i agree i jsut got the 2nd one since reordering after sometime not getting the magazine and very disapointed atleast with old one i would find 1 or 2 patterns in it cant wait till i get my jcs i love that one and will stick to it

laurie