The quarterly magazine

Pins & Tales

SAPFM’s quarterly e-magazine, published as a PDF in March, June, September, and December. Member project write-ups, technique pieces, class notes, new-board introductions, and reporting from the regional chapters.

Where the annual journal carries long-form research, Pins & Tales carries the year’s pulse — what members are building, where they’re meeting, who just won the Makers Challenge, what’s coming up at the conference.

Articles come from members. The editorial team is always asking what you’re working on.

In the Summer 2026 issue

Conference plans, a Portsmouth tea caddie, and a road trip to the museums.

The Summer 2026 issue lays out October’s Conference in Manchester — the field trips, the presenters, and the banquet honoring Tim Killen — and opens the season with nominations for the 2027 Cartouche and registration for the Phil Lowe Makers Challenge. Chapter reports run from the private Chipstone collection to a shop reproducing Thomas Jefferson’s field pieces, with a farewell to Ronnie Young and a welcome to new associate editor Matthew Shockey.

How to get it

Members

Delivered as a PDF four times a year. The full archive (back to 2008) lives in the Bench.

Non-members

Read the current issue — Pins & Tales, Summer 2026 — free. Leave an email and we’ll open it for you, and let you know when the next one is out.

Become a member → for every issue going forward and the full archive.