Scoop (reviews)

Scoops: With a Little Help from our Friends

February 3, 2012

We here at GenQ have had the blessing of many good friends over the last six months–friends who have lifted us when we were dropping and who offer their time and talents to us freely, just because they like us for some reason. We love our friends and we love it even more when their [...]

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Pattern Review: Peony Collette dress

January 30, 2012

Melissa House comes equipped with some great stitchin’ DNA. Mom Cherri is a teacher and author of Stash’s City Quilts and sis Lizzy designs fabrics to die for for Andover Fabrics. So when we met her at Market last October and she came up with this awesome idea to do sewing pattern reviews, we jumped, [...]

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Scoop: Budget Resolution Busting Books

January 6, 2012

We like to shake things up here now and then, and while this isn’t that big of a move, we usually try to group our Scoop picks by publisher. But honestly, there are some really great sewing and quilting books out there by smaller or more obscure publishers and they too are worthy of our [...]

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Scoops: Creativity Pushes for 2012

December 27, 2011

I’m a goal-planning junkie. Really. I worship my planner and spend the week before New Year’s ringing in the lists. There are the lists of started projects that need to be finished. Lists of new quilts and crafts to start. Lists of organization to accomplish. And lists of what I’d like to achieve in the [...]

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Scoops: 2012 Calendars We Want (and Need)!

December 20, 2011

There’s nothing like a new calendar to kick off a promising start to a new year and that’s what we’ve got for you today. Why settle for using your local Realtor’s annual bribe on your fridge or the Hallmark store handout when you can indulge in your passions? Trust us when we say that there [...]

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Scoop: American Quilter’s Society Brings Us Joy Between the Covers

November 4, 2011

AQS is more than just a huge show in Paducah and a year-round quilt museum with some of the best of the Best of Show quilts hanging there on permanent display. It’s also a prolific publisher of quilt books, and for this Scoop we have several to recommend. At the end of this post, comment [...]

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Scoop: C&T Knocks Our Quilted Socks Off

October 7, 2011

So, we get this small box of books and we admit to being just a little tainted by the “been there seen that” attitude at the time. How refreshing to unpack book after book and continue to say, “Crap, I’d have paid for this one!” And that’s what we’ve got here, the books we’d have [...]

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Scoop: App Attack Part 3

September 29, 2011

Finally, we come to the last installment in our three-part series on smartphone and tablet apps. First, we looked at apps specifically targeted to quilters. Then we rated apps that work for anybody who sews, not just quilters. And now, we examine apps that promise to unleash, inspire, or otherwise nudge your creativity.   Sketchbook [...]

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Scoop: Bordering On Insane

September 7, 2011

So we’ve put all of this time into our latest quilt top only to get to the outer regions and then we’re lost. Well, GenQ and Martingale & Company are here to rescue your pretties from dullness. Don’t let your plain ol’ borders box you in. Grab one of these new books from Martingale (aka [...]

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Scoop: App Attack, Part 2

August 25, 2011

A few weeks ago, we gave you the scoop on several quilting apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android and now we’re going to take a look at some more apps that are sewing-related, if not necessarily intended solely for quilters.   Park’s Color Finder Thread Edition 2011 Wiker Industries $0.99 iPhone, iPad* If you’ve ever [...]

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