Another knitting magazine is closing down (sale)

rubyyy

So apparently, Making Stories Magazine is closing down its business. They are having a sale on physical and digital products until the end of March. Their print and digital versions of the magazine are dropped down to 5 Euros if anyone is interested. They won't be selling them further after March

TheKnitter

10 years seems to be the "magic" number for closings - three shops here have closed after 10 years in business, very sad.

Wooggins

Last year, Sandnes Garn stopped their printed pattern magazine and is digital-only. It sucked, but I can see why they did it. Since SG has other products, they were able to adjust their business. Still sad to see the printed format go. JoAnn's recently announced the shut down of all stores. It's odd that many decades-old businesses that have survived other global crises including 2007/8 financial crisis are not able to cope these days,

rubyyy

kurukurokurin replied at 2025-3-1 02:20
Sad to see but given how many people are struggling, it can't be easy to sell a magazine showcasing  ...

Yes I agree. Also, the diversity of successful designers and designs diminished a lot in recent years with Petite Knit and others. I don't mean diversity as race, ethnicity etc, but designs themselves

kurukurokurin

Sad to see but given how many people are struggling, it can't be easy to sell a magazine showcasing such beautiful and expensive yarn used to make things that take so much time. So many people don't have that time or the money to spend...

MissDemeanor

Dolalah replied at 2025-3-1 18:41
From which country does i ...

They are from Germany. The magazine is in english though.

Dolalah

I never heard of this mag.
I need to check if we've got some issues here.
From which country does it come from?

MissDemeanor

That's sad. I love the mag. :( I have to look which Issues I'm still missing. Thanks for letting us know! :)

Filokolobrzeg

Thank you for sharing this sad news, such a shame, I love each edition of their mag!

Everia

So sad to hear... thanks for the info though :)

BluBrd

Thanks for the information!