Got an offer yesterday for Quilt magazine. I've never heard of it. Six issues for $10; normally $24. Good price unless it's not any good. Any of y'all familiar with this one? I don't recognize the publisher. I finally quit my decades-long subscription to QNM and am getting something else which is so lackluster I can't even remember its name (at least, that's my story and I'm sticking to it! I am NOT, uh....forgetful!)
Dogmom
I subscribed to Quilt when I first started quilting back in the 80s. It was pretty good for a beginner, but unless it's changed significantly, I don't think I'd subscribe again. The good thing about it was that it provided a lot of block patterns in the days before computers and quilting software and showed quilts made from those patterns, but it also seemed to me that they published the same block patterns over and over again. Most were very traditional and fairly simple.
All that being said, six issues for $10 is a pretty darned good price, and you wouldn't be out a lot if you didn't like it (of course, you could spend that money on fabric instead!).
I subscribe to it. It has enough articles/patterns in it each year to keep me subscribing. I stopped QNM long time ago. My 2 favorites are Quiltmaker and Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting.
Sherry Starr
I'd suggest you go to a store and thumb thru a copy and see what you think of it. I also subscribed to it many years ago, but found it to be disappointing. Back then it had poor quality paper, not great photos and the articles and projects are mostly for beginners and not terribly imaginative. But that's just my opinion.....
Leslie & The Furbabis > Got an offer yesterday for Quilt magazine. I've never heard of it. Six
I no longer subscribe to any quilting magazine. Seems like they're stuck in the beginner stage. Almost all the quilts in almost all the magazines are geared to someone who isn't past the intermediate stage. I've been quilting for decades and would love to see a quilt magazine devoted solely to those who have been quilting long enough to be able to handle the tough patterns. I'm not going to buy a magazine that at best as ONE advanced pattern/quilt.
Howdy!
Yep, what Leslie said. Flipped thru' an issue in a store the other day, still didn't impress me. But, then, I still prefer QltrsNewsletterMag, keeps me interested. YMMV
Ragmop/Sandy
Gosh, at that price you wouldn't need to get but a pattern or two to pay for the year. There has to be at least a tad bit of info in
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