Magazine subscriptions

[Kute Kitty]

Am I the only one who gets a little overloaded by magazine subscriptions? I'm subscribed to World of Cross Stitching, Cross Stitcher and Cross Stitch Card Shop, and I'm now seriously considering cancelling all three. Not because I've fallen out with the magazines - far from it in fact, I see so much in every issue that I want to do but then don't have time to do before the next issue with the next wonderful things in it falls through my letterbox! I just want to actually give myself some time off to catch up with everything I want to do before continuing. Now, why I know it's virtually the forum motto that you can never have enough stash I do think that actually 7 lever arch files of charts, and that's after I've whittled through and given away the ones I don't like, is possibly a sign that it's time to slow down on the new acquisitions and concentrate on what I've already got for a while!

[Slinky]

I know what you mean KK. I was a bit like that with recipes and cookery magazines. It got to the stage where I felt I wasn't seeing anything new, just versions of older recipes. I cancelled them all and felt better for it.

Only I replaced them all with XS mags and my lever arch files are filling up alarmingly quickly!! I'm trying to be ruthless and to keep only those charts I really like (some issues I don't keep a single chart) but I share your feeling that I'll never catch up.

Every time I think about cutting back, I think, what if I miss that one issue with the to-die-for designs?! So I end up getting pretty much all of them!

[Mabel Figworthy]

I found that I didn't really take a lot out of Cross Stitcher and WOXS, so I am cancelling them when I can (I signed up for a year) which is about next month I think. Instead I now subscribe to New Stitches, which always has something I like. I will stick to just that one magazine now, partly because I've got plenty of designs in folders already, plus abut 80 back issues of New Stitches that I got off eBay, and also because they are quite expensive and I'd rather spend that on pretty fabrics and threads to actually stitch the designs with !

[ellay]

I cancelled my subscriptions a couple of years ago and was quite disciplined at first, only buying the occasional magazine, but now I seem to be buying them all again - I can't seem to pass them by just in case I miss something!

[Lizzy]

I cancelled my subscriptions last year and havent bought a single mag since

[Angel]

I have Crossstitcher, WOXS and cross stitch crazy on subscription at last (They don't sell crazy here!). And I know what you mean, it's hard to keep up, but I still collect them anyway because even if I don't use the charts...I love the magazines...

[Granny]

I have never had a cross stitch magazine subscription and never will. I have bought a few magazines across the counter because I thought they had designs I really wanted to do. Years later I haven't done any from magazines but have purchased individual charts that I am stitching. I went through owning a raft of quilt subscriptions and magazines but found that just using them for about an hour of "eye candy" was a waste of money. I had a chance to sell them at a quarter of face value and i have a quilt top that I made from fabrics purchased from that money. Much more useful, in my mind.

[agi]

I have been subscribing to The Gift of Sttiching - an online magazine, for more than a year now, and I love it. And I gave myself a Christmas present: subscribed to New Stitches!!! Haven't received it yet, they said it may take a month or two to start... so I may soon give them a new address to deliver to I also buy old copies occasionally if there is something in them I want to stitch.

[Happy Stitcher]

I can only manage one magazine subscription and I've been subscribing to WOXS for about five years, but I'm not really getting a lot out of it anymore and I wanted a change, but I couldn't find another mag I really liked. Then just recently I suddenly discovered New Stitches magazine, I'd never seen it in our shops over here before and when I saw it I just had to buy it! I get it every month from the shop now, but I'm going to take out a subscription when the WOXS runs out.
I would get too bogged down with a lot of different magazines so only having one I really enjoy and will get a lot out of suites me best.

[Lessa54]

I don't bother with magazines - I know I would never keep up with them and I'm not convinced as to how many designs I would find in them that I want to do to make it worthwhile to buy a magazine. Also, I don't want to be landed with magazines dedicated to christmas/halloween/other seasonal patterns when actually I don't really want any more designs like that.

What I really love and send big thanks out to all the very kind people on here who do it, are the threads offering to send out unwanted magazine patterns. It really is so kind of you and just so absolutely perfect for those of us who only want the odd pattern.

[~threadbear~]

I have a subscription to Cross Stitcher purely because it's the magazine that Tesco clubcard deals with, so I was able to get the year through vouchers.
I've been very disappointed in it as like Lessa says, it's full of things like Christmas, Valentines, Easter, Halloween and all the other things I'd have absolutely no use for.
So for me, it's not worth subscribing again .
I think I've actually had more pleasure finding magazines in the charity shops as at least I can browse through and see if there's anything in it I really like before I buy.

[Angel]

I must admit, that is the one thing that does bug me. I don't like how much Christmas stuff is in the mgazines for nearly six months.

[Nachstenliebe]

I don't have any cross stitch subscriptions.. I did buy one magazine and over it a bit...didn't do any of the charts in it though...and then this weekend I almost got a magazine because it had such a pretty chart for a fairy but it was $11.00 I couldn't talk myself into purchasing a small fairy pattern then I could a bigger and more detailed one online for around the same price.. I would like a subscription though..it would be nice to get something like that in the mail every so often.. but unfortunately that money could be used better elsewhere
Faith

[*barb*]

i dont have a subscription because too expensive for overseas but I hear you when you say about the christmas magazines. I have heaps of xmas patterns and am trying to limit myself to just buying cross stitcher but not at xmas time..the xmas issues are the current ones in our newsagency

I dont buy any other magazines, craft or otherwise so I dont feel so bad. Magazines on the whole are so expensive.

[Wandatoo]

No subscriptions for me either. Our local Walmart carries Cross Stitcher and Just Cross Stitch, and once in a long while I see World of Cross Stitch or Cross Stith Gold at another store. But there are usually more patterns in them that I wouldn't use than those that I would.

Still pick one up once in a while, but my 'bad stash habit' is cross stitch books. I'm embarrassed to say how many I have, but I usually get them at a good price from Amazon - usually only a couple of dollars more than an individual magazine, so more worth it -- at least to me.

[Angel]

I joined a cross stitch book club.

[~threadbear~]

I joined a cross stitch book club.

Soooooooooo bad!

[Angel]

Would you like to join? It's full of pretty stash!!!!!!!!!! Ok...maybe Angel should go and sit in a corner and practice saying no?

[Lisa]

which one angel?

[Angel]

I don't remember