Great new skirts, great new magazine

The internet feels like a ghost town this Halloween afternoon.  Get it?  Ghost town?  On Halloween?  I'm cracking myself up here...

I'm guessing everyone's finishing up costumes or putting the final touches on their Halloween lawn art or maybe  laughing it up with co-workers at office parties or what-have-you.  When y'all are done with Halloween this weekend, though, do check out the premier issue of the new sewing magazine, Stitch. Put out by the folks at Quilting Arts and Cloth Paper Scissors, but with a much more modern feel, this issue is billed as a "sewing magazine for the 21st century."  If the incredible asymmetrically-folded skirt on the front cover is any indication, that's just right.  The best part is that the patterns for this skirt and two other lovelies are included in the magazine as well, with two others available as free downloads here.  (And I promise that their kind write-up of Spoonflower had nothing to do with the making of this blog post!)

Thanks to my good friend, Kat, now a contributing blogger for my local fabulous quilt store's blog for the tip.  Now I wonder if I could squeeze one of those skirts in for myself before the real holiday gift sewing begins in earnest....