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Does anyone else buy this monthly magazine? I just got issue 13 yesterday:

Mollie Makes

Attached to the cover are 6 cute vintage-style buttons (red flowers). They always have "a little something" like that on the cover, but this time, I think they've outdone themselves! I was very pleasantly surprised to get "free" buttons like that.

I got my copy of the magazine at an independent book store, where the staff knows to hold each new issue for me & call me when it comes in. But I've seen the magazine at Barnes & Noble and JoAnn's. I prefer to buy mine from my local independent store, though...it's one of several magazines they get & hold for me. Nice to have personal service like that these days, and it's what's kept that store open long after others have folded.

Does anyone else enjoy Mollie Makes? I haven't even gotten past staring at the cover of this new issue -- haven't had time to sit down & devour the contents, too. It's always a treat!

The magazine runs $11.99, but that includes the project materials stuck to the front cover. They've given felt, crochet cotton & hook, buttons to cover with linen, embroidery floss, a little coin purse frame, and I don't remember what-all else. Always something different each month. It's a British magazine, so most of the stores & websites mentioned are overseas. Still -- fun to see what's going on "across the pond." Needlework is a universal language.

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I LOVE that magazine and first bought it at Jo-Ann's, then at B&N and sometimes even from a seller on etsy . I have almost all of the issues--am definitely missing the first one, but I think one more. The first one that I bought had the pattern for the felt hamsters--figured my girls would like making them and I have everything here to do some when the kids get out of school for the summer.

I'll be the second vote for getting more people turned on to this magazine. Just love looking through it. There is a PDF version available, but I just really like having the real magazine in my hands.

i love it too! i made the ipod case with the bird. really cute.

Issue One of Mollie Makes has been nearly impossible to find since it came out. You can get it in a download version for Apple devices though, I think. But still...Apple isn't going to send your 6 button through the mail. I, too, like having the "real" magazine to browse.

Somerset Life and Sew Somerset are two of my other new favorites:

Stampington Publications

-- But I think they're more "artsy" whereas Mollie Makes is more "cute." Again, hard magazines to find without subscribing, unless you know when the next one is due out and you get to the right store at the right time, or you have a friendly neighborhood bookstore who knows you want them.

I also get Marie Claire Idees (in French):

Marie Claire Idees

And if you'd enjoy that publication, you'd enjoy this blog:

File Etoile de Lin

You can just enjoy the pix there, or run it thru Google Translator for a literal translation. Google "File Etoile de Lin" and then click on the blue "Translate this page" link in the results.

And now you will get no work done this afternoon, but you will want to stock up on natural-colored linen and red embroidery thread.

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want to stock up on natural-colored linen and red embroidery thread.

ph no...can't look...mustget project in the mail...later later...

Gee Nancy (subliminal message...go look) that's too bad (go look), but I totally (go look) understand.

I'm done. Can go look now. Kinda nervous. Know I'll like it.

Clunk....I haVE fainted from delight.


s i g h her little appliqued people would make wonderful little quilts.

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There's just something about European handiwork...the way there's something about Asian handiwork...or Russian...or... I love seeing things from all over the globe, no matter how new or how old.

Has anyone ever read any Japanese quilting or needlework magazines? I've seen them in stores in NYC, but have never purchased one. And what about the Australian quilting magazine? I'd have to Google the exact name...I forget. Anyone get that one?

I've got several of the Australian ones...name escapes me. I don't don't know what it is they do, but their quilts are so energetic and alive...and different...can't put my finger on it, but I love them!!!

In the 70's I got a Japanese magazine that had all the patterns for the dresses on several pages. You had to follow the lines to trace the dress out. Oh I wish I still had that magazine. The clothes were beautiful and elegant...and timeless.

Japanese quilts I've seen are STUNNING! Such intricate detail and unusual asthetic. Luana at e-quilter has beautiful pictures from a quilt show last year before the tsunami on her blog.

Oh so many ideas, so little time, so many dishes and laundry loads!!!

I love Mollie Makes too!
I also love any European mag. They do things differently...more authentic, if that makes sense.
I just bought a Marie Claire mag...love the pics and projects.
I am a mag-a-holic! Always was. Does anyone remember the mag New Ingenue in the 70's? I was in high school. It was short lived, but awesome.
Ahhh, the Seventeen magazine days of old!

I am with all of you love this magazine. The only problem I have is it says go on line to get the templates, I can never find them.
The projects are such fun. It took me forever to find this magazine here, so I am missing several of the issures.
Like the Aussie magazines Homemade is one.

"Ingenue" magazine vaguely rings a bell, but I certainly remember getting "Coed," which we ordered & received through the Home Ec Dept. at my jr. high school. And I begged for a subscription to Seventeen the minute I became a teenager. Had to read the latest on how to handle boyfriend problems (as if I had a boyfriend at 13 or 14, let alone any problems with him), and check out all the ads for Love's Baby Soft, Bonne Bell, Bobbie Brooks, etc.

OH those HAPPY years when we had more HORMONES than we could handle!!

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I am with all of you love this magazine. The only problem I have is it says go on line to get the templates, I can never find them.

Try here:

MM Templates

And then click on the PICTURE of the magazine cover -- not any words there. That should launch a .pdf file in Adobe for you, and the templates should be there. See if it works?

I got there via the magazine's home page & their "Downloads" tab.

Starry, thanks for the info that worked for me.I just wasn't able to figure out how to get the templates. Really wanted the ones with the LLamas and Russian doll key chain.
Again thanks a lot.

You're welcome! It's not really well marked, is it? I kinda stumbled across it myself, last ditch effort after clicking on everything else & wondering why people were responding that they had the templates. I'm not used to clicking on pictures instead of link-y words!

I kept trying to click on the word Download or Template and of course that didn't work.
Note to self "if you are hunting for something don't always go for the obvious."

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OH those HAPPY years when we had more HORMONES than we could handle!!

I was MOROSE...made mountains out of anthills (smaller)...MADE the boyfriend problems myself!!! I'm happy now without all that trauma I manufactured!!! I did write Seventeen once to ask why they never showed models with glasses...they hardly do that now!!!

Got the mouse templates.

I loved the mice in my Cinderella book (forget her!, I loved the industrious mice!!!)

I need to make mice! Thank you!!!!

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I need to make mice!

How many mice do you need? Let me check the traps in my garage...might be able to save you a whole lot of work!

Actually, all you need are 2 mice of the right varieties. They'll make more mice for you, no problem!

mouse production...bwahahahahahahaha!

Regarding Mollie Makes magazine...you can buy it here
http://www.bunnyhilldesigns.co...oducts/?category=120

I am just too cheap to pay that price and shipping! However,I did buy one from Joann's once,it had that coin purse for the free project..I am just on the fence with this mag,,I want to look it over before I buy it, somethings just don't do it for me,some do...