I'm going to have a bit of a moan so stop reading now if you don't want to feel offended.
The resurgence of interest in sewing is all well and good but I wish there was some stylish sewing media and inspiration available. Stopping by WH Smith 'craft section' is a depressing experience. There are 3 choices available to you:
1) What I call the 'academic' magazines : sew today (english version of vogue sewing), threads, Sew ... informative but tend to be on the dull side.
2) The German Magazine, yep i'm talking Burda style here... what can i say? what i want to say is they should take out the word 'style' from the cover cause Karl Lagerfeld it ain't.
3) My worst nightmare: the cutiepie overdose magazines with pseudo trendy amateurish projects nobody in their right mind would ever want to make let alone wear. the names alone bring me out in cold sweats : mollie makes (i want to parody the song mollie, mollie wtf is Mollie), Crafty, cloth... and the worst I saw was something called 'homemaker'! come on ! somebody is taking the proverbial piss here with a name like that , we are in the 21st century. There's loads more all as bad as one another.
I think the publishers of those rags have read Marie Claire Idees at some stage and aim to reproduce it for the British market. But it doesn't work and lets be honest 100 idees was a lot better than MCI. 100% BETTER.
I just wish somebody would come up with a new 100 idees concept which doesn't serve cheap feeble projects . but that's not going to happen
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