Features

Block Builder: How Does Your Block Grow?

December 17, 2014

Here at Generation Q Magazine, we’re all about the bass. Wait? What?! No, no that’s not it. No. We’re all about quilts and creativity and fun and playing. Yeah, that’s it. We like to play so much that we’ve extended our Block Builder Date for the March-April 2015 issue to Saturday, Dec. 27! Awesome sauce! You [...]

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Behind The Scenes Of The Sacred Sewing Room Tour

November 7, 2014

Editor’s Note: In our November-December 2014 issue—now on newsstands—we write about the year-long Sacred Sewing Room National Tour project by Enchanted Makeovers and Baby Lock. For a personal spin, though, we asked Samantha Palmere of Baby Lock to share her on-the-ground experience with the Sacred Sewing Room effort. By Samantha Palmere, guest blogger [...]

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Quilt as Desired: Final Round

October 23, 2014

Identical blocks + different quilters = stitchy madness! Throughout the past few days, we’ve been sharing more of the Quilt As Desired pieces created as part of a feature in our Sept-Oct 2014 issue. And today, we’ve got more! Background: We created identical 15-inch paper-pieced wonky star blocks and asked some of our dearest friends [...]

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Quilt as Desired: Round 4

October 9, 2014

Identical blocks + different quilters = stitchy madness! Throughout the past few days, we’ve been sharing more of the Quilt As Desired pieces created as part of a feature in our Sept-Oct 2014 issue. And today, we’ve got more! Background: We created identical 15-inch paper-pieced wonky star blocks and asked some of our dearest friends [...]

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Quilt As Desired, Round 3

October 7, 2014

Identical blocks + different quilters = stitchy madness! Throughout the past few days, we’ve been sharing more of the Quilt As Desired pieces created as part of a feature in our Sept-Oct 2014 issue. And today, we’ve got more! Background: We created identical 15-inch paper-pieced wonky star blocks and asked some of our dearest friends [...]

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Quilt as Desired, Round 2

September 30, 2014

Identical blocks + different quilters = stitchy madness! Riddle us this, Q-bies: What three little words will make quilters stop in their tracks with eyes twitching and teeth gnashing? Answer: “Quilt as desired.” To have some fun with this law of the q-niverse, we gave identical blocks to a group of quilters, and in our [...]

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Quilt as Desired

September 25, 2014

quilt as desired identical blocks + different quilters = stitchy madness! Riddle us this Q-bies: What three little words will make quilters stop in their tracks with eyes twitching and teeth gnashing? Answer: Quilt as desired. Cleansing breath people! Now, let’s talk. While “quilt as desired” does freak many quilters out (and will, for as [...]

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More Fun From The July-August Issue

July 5, 2014

The July/August issue is getting out and about, being enjoyed across the country. What better time than the 4th of July weekend than to contemplate making a celebration quilt like Fireworks by Tara Faughnan? Happy Independence Day, America! (And follow this link to find the patterns needed for Fireworks.) Color Carnival Row-along! Getcher Row 2 [...]

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Between the Covers: Generation Q Magazine May/June issue!

April 23, 2014

The latest issue of Generation Q is out and about, people! And gracing our May-June 2014 cover is Jake’s daughter, Samantha Finch, sporting a lovely smile and snuggling up to some great pillows created by our pal, designer Melissa Peda! Now, word has it that said daughter Sam was not thrilled (read: had a snark [...]

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Sewing = A Beach Vacation

March 4, 2013

For professional organizer Elizabeth Tawney Gross, sewing is like a beach vacation, except there’s no sand and no sunburn (unless you back into the iron!) Well, we’re kinda stretching it here. Actually she’s talking about your sewing room. If you approach organizing your sew-space with a beach vacay metaphor in mind, it’s easy to [...]

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