BC-based Quilter’s Connection launches this September, rising from the ashes of the former Connections for Quilters newsletter. Quilting Confections (Windsor, ON) With a little help from her family, McArthur spent about $6,000 to launch the first issue, although she has kept overhead costs pretty low. Printing is done at Rhino Print Solutions , and her staff so far consists of herself and one dedicated layout artist who’s working on the first issue for free. For the first issue, 1,000 copies will go towards subscriptions and in-store sales, and another 1,000 will be distributed at Canadian trade shows such as Toronto’s Creativ Festival (Oct. If all goes according to plan, McArthur hopes to double the magazine’s circulation in the next year and increase its page count from 48 to more than 90.

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