It All Started With a Magazine

Remember waiting for your quilting magazine to arrive in the post or when we get to enjoy browsing them on the newsstand while we do grocery shopping? Flipping open those pages — the scent of them, the weight of them — and just… sitting with it? No scroll, no algorithm, no one trying to sell you a fake pattern. Just beautifully curated stories, project ideas, technique tips, and the quiet joy of a community that took the time to put it all together.

I still have a collection of older magazines, and I genuinely love browsing through them. In fact, I had the loveliest thing happen a few years back, a dear reader sent me a collection of vintage 1980s issues, and OH MY goodness. I feel like the luckiest person ever! I talked about this in my previous post HERE> 

I have been slowly working my way through them, page by page, soaking up every bit of inspiration. The quilts. The styling. The way they wrote about quilting, and the stories… It’s a different kind of nourishment altogether, and one I didn’t realize I’d been missing.

Those magazines weren’t just content. They were curated. Someone who is chosen for their job through their experience in the quilting world thought carefully about what you needed to see, what would inspire you, what would teach you. That intention matters. It still matters somehow. At least the process of the curation is a filter in a way. These days we do have more originality but we also have to filter lots of noises around it too. 

Read on and I’ll tell you what I mean by this…