Playdate (projects)

Playdate: Mod Chevron Baby Quilt

June 29, 2012

Some things are worth waiting for,  such as great wine, homemade ice cream, raspberries ripening in the backyard, the right guy (or girl)…oh, and this super-cute, super-easy baby quilt by author, popular blogger and linen lover Rashida Coleman-Hale, which is pictured in our debut issue on page 23. Just click this link, and you’ll be [...]

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Playdate: Summer Star

May 7, 2012

Just in time for Mother’s Day (in the U.S. at least, but we bet your mom would like something made from it any time of the year), we have our May block brought to you by April Rosenthal of Prairie Grass Patterns.  April is one of the nicest people ever you meet from time to [...]

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Playdate: Hang Ups (Or, When Fabric Talks, We Listen)

April 23, 2012

About six weeks ago, I received a special package in the mail from Westminster Fabrics — a happy little pile of Denyse Schmidt’s legacy re-launch of Flea Market Fancy. Now I was seriously tempted to hoard, er  stash it like Gollum and start muttering ”My Precious,” but my Good Shoulder Angel told me I should share at [...]

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Playdate: Shamrock Block

March 5, 2012

Did you know there’s actually a town in Ireland named Quilty? A few years ago, when Melissa and her family were traveling there, they tried like the dickens to find their way to the ferry and ride across the river just so they could take her picture in front of the “Quilty” city limits sign. [...]

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Playdate: Vintage Valentine Quilt

February 6, 2012

We love the touch of appealing elegance that infuses our next holiday Playdate, Vintage Valentine by Alexia Abegg of Green Bee Patterns! Makes us think of Grandma’s chenille bedspread and those cool aluminum cold drink tumblers that get all frosty with condensation, and other feel-good images from decades past. And while many Valentiney crafts and [...]

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Playdate: Heirloom China Quilt from Dear Stella

February 1, 2012

We first heard about Dear Stella about a year ago and we eagerly awaited the debut of this new fabric house at International Quilt Market last October. And we weren’t disappointed! The colors are fresh and the patterns exciting. We just loved the variety and how well the different lines complemented each other. It was [...]

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Playdate: Starlings

January 2, 2012

Happy New Year Q-bies!  In 2012, We will be bringing in some of our friends from the blog-o-sphere to design our holiday blocks that have been evolving with us. Today we are bringing you a new GenQ New Year Block designed for you by our dear friend John Adams of Quilt Dad fame!  John said [...]

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Playdate: Bounty Block

December 23, 2011

There’s something fitting about using a fresh original block design to commemorate a holiday that, in part, celebrates creativity. Here’s what GenQ Cabana Boy Scott Hansen (also of Blue Nickel Studios) has cooked up for Kwanzaa, a cultural holiday that celebrates family, community and culture among the world African community. Kwanzaa was created in 1966 [...]

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Playdate: St. Nick’s Star Block

December 16, 2011

It’s all about the light, isn’t it? No matter which flavor of holiday you savor in December, light is a major theme or mode of celebration. And that’s how our resident Cabana Boy and designer Scott Hansen (also of Blue Nickel Studios) has chosen to channel his Santa-ness for today’s Playdate: into a block of [...]

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Playdate: Want Gravy With That?

November 18, 2011

So, Q-Bies…how d’you like your turkey? White meat or dark meat….or maybe a tasty mix of mod prints and solids? GenQ Cabana Boy Scott Hansen (also of Blue Nickel Studios) has dashed off another fun, abstracted holiday block, and this time, he’s actually put needle to cloth to show us what stitchy fun he’s serving [...]

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