Magazine Review: Love Patchwork and Quilting

As you know I am a little obsessed by my sideline hobby of quilting, its my go to thing to do when I don't really want to do any embroidery. Still keeps my hand in stitching just in a slightly different way. Some point I might combine the two and bring it into more Mason Bee things, I have done a little bit in the past but for now I am happy keeping it as a way to make things for me. 

I've been looking a lot lately at books and magazines on the subject for sometime to build up a bit of a mini reference library. Now I know I have mentioned several times over that I am not much of a magazine buyer, being rather fussy about it too. I have ones that I buy from time to time, and others that I have stopped buying all together as it was turning into an expensive coffee table habit; quickly read and discarded. 

So I was rather happy and surprised by how much I enjoyed Love Patchwork and Quilting mag. It's a rarity to find a publication that I want to read cover to cover and have a really strong desire to make the projects. Not just think about doing them but actually working out when I can do them.

As you can see from the two editions I have, lots of sticky tabs for me to refer back to, for little projects I am tempted to do, fabrics and bits and pieces for reference.

One project I have my list to do, and have already sourced the fabrics (one of which is going to be this delightful Koi print), and worked out the quantities for is this Hexagon Table Set by Elizabeth Bett. Been after some nice table mats for sometime, especially now that I have chairs for my dining table...it's taken a while.

I am having to keep myself on a bit of a tight leash so I don't end up buying loads more fabric before I've got even one project complete. 

But it is rather tempting and this magazine doesn't help...