Unexpected Gift

I love craft magazines, especially patchwork and quilting ones. I have shelves full of back issues of British Patchwork & Quilting, Popular Patchwork, McCall's Quilting, Fons and Porter's Love of Quilting, The Quilter, Fabrications, Magic Patch - name a quilting magazine and I will have a few issues on my bookshelf. I have quilt mags from France, Australia, America and Britain and they are all good reads. The British ones, though, can be a little bit old fashioned and some of the articles are a bit boring and the issues get a bit repetitive. So, I decided to stop buying magazines for a while.

Then, last month I bought the October editions of Quilt Now and Love Patchwork and Quilting magazine. I hadn't seen either of these before, due to my magazine starvation diet. Both magazines are quite new, there have only been a handful of issues of Quilt Now.

I read both of these magazines from cover to cover and what a breath of fresh air they turned out to be. I wouldn't call myself an ultra modern quilter, I am somewhere between a modern and a traditional quilter. I don't really like "Art Quilts" or anything too abstracts & wacky, but I love lots of white or grey, teamed with simple lines and shapes and some of the modern prints.

Both of these magazines had very generous subscription offers but I could only afford to subscribe to one. I re-read both magazines and chose a favourite, the one with the projects I wanted to make and the articles I found the most interesting was Love Patchwork and Quilting magazine. I also preferred it because it was a little less "fluffy", it felt a bit more advanced, which I love.

Issue 13 of Love Patchwork & Quilting - with a most beautiful cover quilt by Lynne Goldsworthy

Before I subscribed I decided to have a go at making the Union Jack foundation pieced block at the back of the magazine to brush up on my foundation paper piecing. While making the block I discovered a very slight error in the pattern. The block is made in 4 quarter sections, 2 x A + 2 x B. However, when you put them together to make the block the white lines of the Union Jack do not go where they should. I think it was the only error in an otherwise excellent magazine, so I contacted them to tell them about it. They checked the block and told me that I was right. They were very apologetic and asked for my address so that they could send me something as a thank you.

Look at what they sent me!

12 Fat Quarters of "Sew Yummy" 100% organic cotton from Cloud Nine. How lucky am I?

Beautiful fabrics with sewing designs on them; zips, pin cushions, spools, seam rippers and scissors.

They also sent me a new copy of the Union Jack pattern.



I am really impressed with their generosity and the magazine itself. The November issue was just as great so I am glad I chose to subscribe to this magazine, I think its right up my street.

Issue 14 - Look at that beautiful star!

 

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