In a parallel universe, we’re fat, jolly, have whiskers and wear a fuzzy red suit… ‘cuz we love giving stuff away! And that’s just what we’re going to do today.
Emily Cier’s Pixel Play Giveaway 
To celebrate Emily’s latest book, Pixel Play (C & T Publishing, 2012), we asked you to tell us what favorite image/scene/memory/photo you’d put into fabri-pixels. From Emily, mistress of the Carolina Patchworks blog, the randomly selected winner will receive a copy of Pixel Play, wrapped in a surprise box that will have other treats. From GenQ, the winner will also receive Issues 1 and 2 of GenQ, plus 3 FQs from our magic fabric closet.
And the winner is….
Jane S., who wants to pixellate her pig. Here’s what she had to say: “I’d pixelize a photo of the pig we had when I was a teenager. In the photo he is eating some fruit that had fallen off the plum tree, and he is smacking his lips and looks like he is laughing with joy! We’ve had quite a few pigs since then but I will always love Otis.”
So, Jane, give us a shout and let us know your mailing address. If you’re from outside the United States, we’ll also need your phone number for shipping forms. (And look for your prize in mid-November, once the Quilt Market fog has cleared.)
Julie Herman’s Skip the Borders! Giveaway 
We also helped our pal Julie Herman (of Jaybird Quilts fame) launch her first book, Skip The Borders! (Martingale, 2012) with a blog tour that just ended. To vie for a free e-book, we asked you to tell us if you’ve ever gone commando…on your quilts, that is. And we’ll pull two happy names out of the random hat. Both winners will receive a free e-book version of Skip the Borders!. The winners are:
Carla Esser Lake—“Sometimes I think ‘commando’ might be my middle name. I enjoy the creative process more than I enjoy reading and following directions. Are the results ever perfect? Not really. But I have a lot of fun!”
Patti—“Umm, borderless? Does this mean I have to actually finish one? Guess it does, but so far I haven’t. Sorry, but I am new to this (even though I’m older than, well, almost anyone I know in the quilting world so far). But I would really love this book and would treasure it and finish something.”
So, Carla and Patti, get in touch and we’ll make arrangements to send you the link to your free e-book. As we mentioned before, please grant us a little post-Market grace, and we’ll get this to you mid-November.
And now for our own giveaway…
Think you’d like to have this tasty jelly roll of Simply Color by V & Co for Moda Fabrics. Well, you’ve got a shot!
Here’s how: You might have heard a little buzz in the blogosphere about people going to Houston, that mecca of autumnal quilt madness. Well, most of us here at GenQ are Market-bound in a few days, and we know a lot of you are, too.
So tell us: Are you going to Market? Or do you travel elsewhere in the world on quilty/stitchy business? Comment on this post and tell us about a recent or upcoming fabric-fondling trip. (And don’t just stop with the “where.” Go on and brag a little about what you did or what you’re going to do once you get there, because a little self-expression is good for the soul, sweet pea!)
We’ll announce a winner on Friday, Oct. 19.
Ho, ho, ho!
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The only trip I have taken to fondle fabric is to Sisters last summer. It was a wonderful celebration of quilts and I brought back lots of fabric.
I haven’t been on a fabric fondling excursion in quite a while….I think I am about due. Don’t know when or where it is going to happen though.
Alas I am not going to quilt market.
It’s always fun to stop at a quilt shop wherever I go. But my favorite is to go with my Mom when I visit her!
Took a road trip to Road to California last January, and am VERY excited to be going to Austin for QuiltCon #1 in February.
I’d be going to market if I wasn’t finishing up my PhD right now! It’s nice and close to where I live – I went last year.
I don’t travel much to shows yet. I have only gone to two. The one that I went to this year I ended up buying a longarm! I love it. This is now my concentration. Get tops done and quilt. I have started quilting for others now.
No fabric trips for me. I would love to go to Sewing Summit one year though
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Um, does driving 5 miles to a Japanese fabric store count?? Because that’s all I’ve done recently – all of my other shopping has been online!
Have not been to Houston for a few years. Wyoming had a shop hop this summer so I partook and got a fabric buying fix.
I’m not going to Market, and I’ve never done anything like it. I will be enjoying it virtually on all the blogs!
Not going to market, but I do go to LA a couple times a year-kids, grandkids, etc! I was there a couple of months ago & made the trek to Michael Levines downtown! I didn’t buy any quilting fabric but enjoyed fondling it. But I loaded up on knits-beautiful stuff & can’t beat the price!
I just came back from the Sewing Summit in Utah! I made lounge pants! Had a ball socializing with like-minded individuals, such a treat. On my spare day I hammered rocks, colelcting fossils – so I got to fondle ancient bugs as well as lovely fabrics!
We have a wonderful fabric store in town, I just love to go there.
Thanks for the giveaway!
I wish I was going! I’ll have to live vicariously through others for the time being…
I’m not traveling far, just wide on a shop hop in my area. I am mad about French General and will buy all I can find. I watch for jelly rolls and layer cakes too so winning a jelly roll would be delicious. Thanks for the giveaway.
I really don’t get to go on fabric-fondling trips (except to my local fabric & craft store). I do much “virtual fabric fondling” through all of the wonderful sewing and quilting blogs and online fabric shops!
I didn’t go expressly for the quilting, but when I researched Hungary for a trip I went on last week, I discovered a place that does the old style blue cloth dying (kekfesto). I found the shop and brought back enough fat quarters for the sewing group I am in and more for me. Now I have to decide on a project to use it. It’s really pretty.
see here: http://www.puszta.com/eng/hungary/cikk/kekfestes_1878_ota
Unfortunately, not going to quilt market, and because I live in Hawaii and flights aren’t cheap, don’t get a chance to go on many quilt/fabric fondling trips. But, whenever I travel, I do check out the local fabric shops!
Well, I have never been to a quilt market, but on a recent trip to Klamath Falls, Oregon, imagine my surprise when, out in the middle of nowhere (we were on an exploring, picnic-ing trip) we found the most charming little quilt shop.
Quilting Sisters in run by a wonderful lady, who opened up her shop just for us when we explained we were from BC and Colorado. She offers classes using vintage Singer machines, and she had a wonderful selection of Batiks that we happily purchased.
sigh … i am no longer traveling or driving, but my daughter and her grandaughter drove down fromthe big city and brought me back with them for a visit and shopping. so, we made the rounds of all the fabric and yarn shops; what fun. i loaded up! i expounded on the fine qualities of fabric and fiber once again, but they were only ho-hum, can you imagine? sad to think i’ve been unable to pass handcrafting along after generations of crafty women.
Not going to market! I would love to go on a fabric fondling trip though!
I live in Sydney Australia & I have not been on any qulit/fabric related trips but I love reading about those who have, it doesn’t matter what – quilt market, sewing summit or smaller sewing/quilty retreats – I love reading about all of them. Thanks for the chance to win.
I’m afraid I’m not going. I have been to a local fiber festival, but it’s just not the same. Sigh… someday!
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I don’t get to go anywhere. Except work. And that doesn’t count as going away for fun!
I am going to Virginia for Thanksgiving and there are museums and shops in the Colonial Williamsburg area that are wonderful!
There’s a mini Halloween shop hop coming up this weekend, 5 LQ Shops here in SoCal & I think I’m going to play along this time!
I haven’t gone on a trip specifically for quilting, but I did find a lovely fabric and yarn store in Reykjavik, Iceland last winter.
Yes, I’ll be at Market. Last fabric petting? This afternoon when some new layer cakes arrived!
Well, unfortunately I don’t get to go to Market – but boy I’d love to! I do try to go to a local quilt shop every time I travel with my husband, so I’ve gone to little quilt shops in houses at the beach, or up in the mountains; one in the Farmer’s Market in Seattle, too! It’s always fun to find a great fabric store and buy some local fabrics to work into a permanent souvenir of a wonderful trip!
I used to own a yarn store and our market Mecca wad TNNA in Columbus OH. It was always a whilrwind of experiences and emotions. The last trip I made was totally last minute. My daughter was 5 months old and I didn’t think I could leave her… until the night before market started. It was s much needed recharge and I felt a renewed energy in my business. Now the only travel I do of the fiber/stitchy variety and thi s weekend is Rhinebeck! AKA New York Sheep and Wool festival and its always the weekend closest to my birthday so for me its the perfect celebration. This year the will be copious amounts of roving purchased as I learner yo spin this summer.
I hope to attend quilt market in Houston some day cause if its anything like TNNA then it must be awesome. Id also like to go to QuiltCon, Sewing Summit, and Sock Summit next time around. Cant wait yo see all the goodies you bring back.
I have been to Paducah twice and to the Quilt Festival in Chicago once. What amazing quilt shows. Not only the gorgeous quilts on display but the endless vendors to boggle your mind!! LOVE IT! Wish I could go to Houston!
No markets over here in NZ, the closest I’ve got is the odd time when Grandmother’s Garden Quilt Shop has popped down to Christchurch from the north island.
Yes we are going to Market this year for the first time! So excited. I used to go to Festival of Quilts (UK) but now live in Canada. It’s the first time we will have travelled such a distance to ogle quilts and buy goodies!
Jane
Nope, this little piggy is not going to market! But I will keep up with all the goings-on by reading all my favorite blogs
Nor going to Quilt Market but I wish I could.
Sadly, I don’t go on such trips. Maybe one day though! I know it would be a blast!
I haven’t been to any fabric fondling trip. But I love to visit an international quilt show someday
I am hindered from travel by health issues, so I have to do it the virtual way — participating in online block swaps, and planning memorable fabric shopping events right here at home. Have fun at Market!
this little piggy is Not going to Market or any big quilt shows until next spring : (
I will continue to support my local quilt shops and love every moment of drooling.
Not going to market but I just came back from vacation to New England and of course had to make a stop at Keepsake Quilting. Good thing my car has lots of room because I not only fondled the fabric but bought as well.
I wish I was going to quilt market, however I’m very lucky to have just come back from Sewing Summit…it was an awesome time of being surrounded by fabric and in December I’m going to Quilt Camp
Well, it was a bit of a sad trip….a local quilt store, Seventh Heaven, is shutting down because the owner has decided to retire. They always carried a lovely selection of reproduction fabrics, about the best selection in San Antonio. While I was sad that they are closing, I was happy to get some repros @ 30 off….
I don’t travel for quilty business, my budget just doesn’t allow it
I would LOVE to attend market or Sewing Summit though. I do, however, visit a friend once a year for a weekend sew-a-thon. She lives about 4 hours away and I drive up and stay at her mom’s house and the three of us (plus some of their family members and friends, we don’t turn anybody away!) sit and sew for an entire weekend. We stay up all night long, sleep in a bit and then get started right away the next morning. We do a bit of fabric shopping of course, and then go home and sew some more! It’s always a blast and such a refreshing weekend for all involved.
I try not to buy too much – I need to get through what I have!!!!
The farthest I have gone from Pennsylvania to look at fabric and the show is to Hampton Roads, Virginia. ALways thought about going to Houston though. SOunds wonderful.
I wish I was going to market, but I will be going on a trip next weekend to fondle fiber! It may not be fabric but at least its stitchy. I’m off to the Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair in North Carolina. Perhaps there will be a few quilt shop stops on the way!
Though I’m not going to fall market, I was able to go to spring market in Kansas City. I did that right on the heels of winning a best of show ribbon for one of my quilts, at the Machine Quilter’s Showcase in Overland Park, Kansas. My prize was a new Bernina Aurora 440 sewing machine! It’s now my regular sewing machine, and I’m happy as a clam using it. Thanks for the chance to win a V&Co. jelly roll!
Whenever I go “home” to Southern California, my best friend and I go to Jenny’s Fabrics and walk the aisles, exclaiming over prints we love, sharing bolts back and forth, and simply enjoying ourselves completely. When I return from my trip, the fabric I bring back in my extra suitcase always makes me think of Diane.
Not going to Quilt Market but I’m saving my pennies to go on the Craftsy Quilting Cruise.
I never traveled for this specific reason, but some day I really would love to give it a try ^_^
Sadly, I’m not going to market. However, I just went to PIQF in Santa Clara, CA. Fabulous quilt and merchants. I discovered some new fabrics by Ellen Medlock — a designer that I didn’t know about. Lots of Kona solids were in evidence. I had a great time!
Me, I’d love to go on a weekend hide-away to the mountains. I could build a fire, enjoy the crisp air, and stitch to my hearts content while listening to a great audio recording. Sounds like heaven to me.