I have plenty of quilting videos to watch thanks to all my Craftsy classes, YouTube, and my favourite Love of Quilting on Wednesday afternoons. However, when I saw the 1/2 off membership offer for QNNtv in my latest issue of Love of Quilting magazine, I couldn't resist.
The yearly membership is regularly priced at $24, not bad at all for all the material available and only $2 bucks a month. But $12 dollars a year? My goodness, you sure can't get much for only a $1 a month these days! I thought I would give it a try and see how I liked it. The biggest draw for me was access to prior episodes of Love of Quilting. I only found that show on PBS recently so I'm way behind. I really do love that show and it's the highlight of my t.v. week. Once you are a member you have access currently starting at the 1800 series and back. I like that there is a description under each episode title so I can hop around and check out the subjects that interest me most, first. There are even episodes of 'Sew Many Quilts' from Fons & Porter - which must have been filmed in the 80s or early 90s! It is so funny to see how young Marianne and Liz are and absolutely hysterical to see how high waisted their pleated mom jeans are (not to mention the hair styles!!).
The other reason I really wanted to have member access was for Quilt It - the longarm quilting show. This is such a specific type of show and there is such limited detailed instruction on-line so I knew this would be a good value for me. I've only watched a couple episodes so far. Same old problem - just finding the time to catch up on all this great information!!!
Quilt Outloud and Quilting Celebrations are also members-only shows. However, if you don't want to spend the buck, the rest of the shows are free to view. Quilty, Quilt Monkey, McCall's Quilting and several other shows are completely accessible by anyone. I probably would have followed McCall's Quilting ages ago had I know it was there for the taking! There is so much free content that you can probably find a video for any technique you need to know!
If you like quilting shows you will love QNNtv. Check it out for free and if you want the 50% off membership there is no coupon needed. Just go to QNNtv.com/Save50 and get it all for a dollar a month. I know I will ALWAYS have something to watch now!
I will have to check out this site next time I have downtime at work. For some reason, Craftsy no longer works there, although Netflix does. I am sure it is some setting on the computer but I feel guilty asking the IT guy to look at it for something non-work related. ;)
Posted by: Maureen | April 14, 2014 at 04:01 AM