HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
How happy are we to welcome 2015? Thrilled would be the word! And we’re even happier to be sharing this New Year with you!
We need to thank you, each of you, because you are the reason we are here. When we (Melissa and Jake) contemplated launching a magazine of our own, we knew what we didn’t want it to be (a running sales pitch filled with flat patterns) and what we did want it to be (a place of community and inspiration where we could learn, play and support each other in our creative addiction). While there’s always room for improvement, we believe that we’re holding steady to our vision. And this year we intend to take this vision up several notches, all the better to serve your needs, Q-bies!
So, to that end, we want to make a couple of announcements. (Fanfare keys in background.)
FIRST: We’ve reached 10,000 likes on our Facebook page! Why is this so important? Because Facebook–for better or worse–remains the most effective way for us to spread the word about what we are doing. And it was through Facebook that we aggressively sought out our fellow Addicted Stitchers and recruited them to the our stitchy brand of fun. We won’t ignore this moment. It’s too wonderful! So we’re hosting our first giveaway for 2015. See below this gorgeous HUGE tote bag courtesy of C&T Publishing.
This stunning Keeper of All Fun, featuring a delightful Double Wedding Ring quilt made by Victoria Findlay Wolfe and quilted by Debby Brown (we love you BOTH!), contains more STUFF than we could even shoot a picture of! But, we’ve given it our best try. Witness the moment:
This pictures shows a little more than half the goodies we neatly shoved into this hardworking bag. Oh, and it will include a year’s subscription to Generation Q Magazine. If you already have a subscription, we’ll either extend it a year or you can gift it to your fave stitching bud. We’re guessing the bag’s contents are worth close to $1,000. Really.
So, here’s the deal: In the comments below, we want to know three things.
- What do you like best about GenQ? (Print, website, or any other way in which we interact…)
- What could we do better or add to our line-up? (And please don’t tell us about getting our stuff posted to the website sooner? That’s our NUMBER ONE RESOLUTION for 2015!!)
- What best inspires you to create? This is a very broad question, we know, but the answer is all yours to have fun with!
When you post your comment, PLEASE make sure we have your COMPLETE NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS. This information is hidden from the post itself, but it gives us the means to contact you, which is no little thing.
On the evening of Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, we’ll select one winner for the bag above at random and 10 additional winners of some fun GenQ stuff (Swatchbuddies, pins and a copy of our very first issue which was never sold on the newsstands). All three questions must be answered and winners who do not step up within one week after being notified will be passed up for someone new.
SECOND: Now this is even bigger. This coming week we will launch the ALL NEW GENERATION Q WEBSITE!! That’s right!! We are growing up. We’ve brought on one of the best Web Goddesses, Sarah Bailey of SpunMonkey, to help us grow up. She’s been working hard to transform our vision of a functional, playful, content-rich and sassy website into The Real Deal. All of our existing content will be relocated to the new one (the web address stays the same) but we’ll have it better organized and easier to navigate. We’re spending this weekend working on fine-tuning the content and plan to launch sometime on Tuesday with the announcement of the Keeper of All Fun bag. Stayed tuned to Facebook, Twitter and other channels to learn about the launch.
THIRD: We’re on Instagram and Pinterest and are actively posting to both. Come check us out at INSTAGRAM HERE and PINTEREST HERE. We’ll be posting lots of fun stuff at both sites as well as our usual at Facebook and Twitter.
LASTLY: Sometime this year we WILL begin offering GenQ’s print magazine in a digital version. This has been on our wish list since the beginning but up until now, the know-how has been absent. Thanks to Lisa Lauch, our amazing Creative Director, we will finally be able to do this. More information will come, but we’re aiming for the summer.
So again, thank you, thank you, thank you for all that you do, and have done, for us! Honestly, the last year has been very hard on our small staff. We’ve been overwhelmed by too many family emergencies to count. Through it all, you have been patient, supportive and kind. We can’t thank you enough for the prayers, notes, messages, gifts of grace and more that you’ve showered us with. The best we can do is make this year even better for each of you! Happy New Year to us all! May 2015 be the Best. Year. Ever!
Many quilted hugs,
Melissa, Jake, Lisa, Scott, Tracy, Teri, Michelle, Leslie and Stashy Galore (AKA Beverly)
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