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SBQ: Stitching Publications

19 June 2008, 5:00 am. 1 Comment. Filed under Needlework, SBQ.

The Stitch­ing Blog­gers Ques­tion of the Week:
Do you cur­rently sub­scribe to any stitch­ing pub­li­ca­tions or have you in the past? (Either in print or online) If so, which ones?

I don’t sub­scribe to any at the moment, and I rarely buy them off the rack. I have hun­dreds of them in my stash, and I keep mean­ing to go through and just keep the designs I’m still plan­ning to stitch, but I never get around to doing it! I stopped buy­ing them because I real­ized that I haven’t ever stitched one sin­gle pat­tern in any of those hun­dreds of mag­a­zines.

I was a “char­ter sub­scriber” to Cross-​​Stitch and Coun­try Crafts, and have about five years or so of old issues. I let the sub­scrip­tion lapse some­where around the time that it became Bet­ter Homes and Gar­dens Cross Stitch and Needle­work1

I love Cross-​​Stitch and Needle­work2 and meant to sub­scribe but just haven’t ever got­ten around to it. I’ve bought sev­eral issues of Jill Oxton’s Cross-​​Stitch and Bead­ing, and while I enjoy those, I don’t think I’d sub­scribe. The Gift of Stitch­ing looks interesting.

I’ve never been big on Stoney Creek Cross Stitch Mag­a­zine, but I’ve never been wild about their designs, either. I have a few issues of the old Leisure Arts mag­a­zines, but the cross-​​stitch designs they pub­lished were usu­ally too sim­plis­tic for me. I’ve seen some mag­a­zines from the U.K. at Bor­ders from time to time, but I don’t think any of the pat­terns in them have ever sung to my heart. It’s been years since I saw an issue of The Cross-​​Stitcher, but it looks like they might have upgraded a bit in that time.

I’ve liked a lot of the pat­terns in Just Cross-​​Stitch, but I’ve never sub­scribed (and don’t buy every issue) par­tially due to the very Chris­t­ian tone of the pub­li­ca­tion. I don’t think they want my pagan money. I do enjoy their annual orna­ment issue, and some­times I even remem­ber to look for it before they’re all sold out.

Look what I found while search­ing for the mag­a­zine sites! A search­able data­base of over 4000 pat­terns pub­lished in var­i­ous magazines!

By the way — how do you spell it? Cross-​​stitch, cross stitch, or some­thing else?

1 It was just Cross Stitch and Needle­work for a lit­tle while, too.

2 For­merly Stitcher’s World, and The Stitch­ery before that.

1 Comment »

  1. avatar Hope. 20 June 2008, 3:52 pm

    How I spell it varies wildly.

 

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