I recently received one of the magazine offers in the mail from Piecework where you are offered a free trial issue. If you decide you don’t like it, you can simply write “cancel” on the invoice, but if you like it, of course you pay the invoice. Of course, as most magazine do for some weird reason, I was sent the invoice before I got the free trail issue, so now I have no idea where the heck that invoice is at. I so wish these magazines would either send the invoice with the issue or wait until after I received it. There is only so much paperwork I can keep track of, and magazine invoices for magazines I don’t even have yet are very low on my radar.

As I search around for the invoice and get another in the mail at some point telling me I’m late with it, I will hopefully figure out what I think about this magazine. Like most products published by Interweave, the layout is beautiful. I received the March/April 2011 issue, and content in it is organized by color: reds, purples, and blues. Most of the articles, as I suspected, are history-related. In fact, there is one article (which I will probably read first) about the embroidery of the Mexican Huipiles that has some fabulous photos of traditional costumes.

On the down side, there are three knitting patterns in this issue, and I don’t knit. Of course, there are also some embroidery patterns too, and I no longer do that either, so I’m on the fence. The subscription rate is $24 for six issues, so that’s $4 each, which is not that bad as far as cost. However, my reading time is so limited, and this is definitely a “reading” kind of craft magazine, not a browsing kind.