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Now Touring: Pixel Play by Emily Cier

October 3, 2012

In case you haven’t figured us out yet, we love anything that charms us or makes us chuckle. Emily’s newest book, Pixel Play (C&T Publishing, 2012) is a two-for-one tickle as we chuckle charmingly over her delightful kid-inspired pixelated quilts. It’s not that Emily’s re-invented the wheel; pixel quilts have been around more than a [...]

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Now Touring: Yep, It’s Us

June 25, 2012

Have we ever done anything quietly? Well, we’re not about to start now, especially when it comes to getting the word out about GenQ‘s transition into print. Believe it or not, some folks in the modern/contemporary stitching world haven’t heard about our new baby. (What? Are they living under a rock?)  So, today–with a lot of [...]

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Now Touring: Presenting Fat Quarterly’s New Baby!

June 4, 2012

Here’s the thing about making block-based quilts: At its core, patchwork blocks are all about the math. Design options for a quilt made from the starting point of blocks can incorporate art techniques, improvisational approaches and no-rules quiltmaking. But the cornerstone of all patchwork quilts lies in mathematics and logic. For all of us Math-Phobes [...]

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Quilting Modern: A Weekend Blog Party!

June 3, 2012

Quilting Modern: Techniques and Projects for Improvisational Quilts We first met and fell in love with Jacquie at the Fall International Quilt Market in 2010 when she was helping out some of her buds with their book releases. We’d just started seeing her work and it was love at first sight, both for her incredible [...]

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Now Touring: How to Spend Your Summer Vacation

April 18, 2012

It’s not too early to be thinking about how you might spend at least some of those quilty travel dollars this summer. Of course, a resort with a full-service spa menu always seems to crop up on our wish list, but we do recognize there are other ways to indulge. For a stitcher, that might [...]

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Sewing MODKID Style Blog Tour, Book Review & Giveaway!

April 13, 2012

We’re into “firsts” lately here at Generation Q. (Did you see Scott’s post on Wednesday about making his very first quilt?) So, as we prepared for the Patty Young book train to stop on our blog this week so we could help spread the word about Sewing MODKID Style (John Wiley & Sons, 2012), we [...]

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Now Touring: Modern Mix

October 14, 2011

Today, we’re welcoming blogger/designer/author Jessica Levitt as our special guest. She’s the brilliant brain behind the very new Modern Mix-16 Sewing Projects that Combine Designer Prints & Solid Fabrics just out from Stash Books. Modern Mix is quilty/stitchy fun mixed with useful facts about managing and matching color and prints to get that clean, fresh [...]

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Now Touring: Emily Cier, Scrap Republic and Orange?

October 6, 2011

Q: What did the farmer say to the green pumpkin? A: Why orange you orange? Q: Why did the orange stop rolling down the hill? A: It ran out of juice. Okay Q-bies, now that we’ve got your ears back from bad jokes (and we’re not promising we’re done yet) let’s talk about one of [...]

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Now Touring: Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle

July 29, 2011

Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle recently released their fourth book, Quilts Made Modern (C&T Publishing, 2010, $29.95), chronicling 10 quilt projects that reflect their love of simple, modern style. That’s enough right there to inspire any quilter to hit the floor pedals, and elevate Bill and Weeks to q-sainthood. There’s more to the story, though. [...]

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