Saturday Special

Saturday Special: Shattered and Washi

February 4, 2012

Quilt of the Week I definitely have a thing for quilts that are dramatic, particularly if they convey that drama in a very simple way. I recently saw this mini-quilt by Leanne of the blog she can quilt, and my heart started pounding a little harder. She named it “Shattered” after a friend used the [...]

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Saturday Special: A New Partnership and a Green Masterpeice

January 14, 2012

Post of the Week We love a good story, especially when it involves fabric and design. We also love good news for our Q-niverse buds. You may have heard about it over in Twitterland this week, or you may have seen us mention it on our Facebook page, but in case you missed it, here [...]

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Saturday Special: A Fun Organizer and a Zig Zag Doll Quilt

January 7, 2012

Blog Post of the Week Okay so this post has nothing to do with an actual quilt, but it does involve a little bit of fabric. And since it’s January, it’s a timely reminder of that re-organizing thing we all WANT to do. I love the way that Sandi saw such great potential for an [...]

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Saturday Special: A Festival of Birds

November 19, 2011

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it’s likely many of us will be spending our weekend grocery shopping and “pre-cooking.” We’ll be spending our Thanksgiving Day with some close friends, as we have a few times before, and our two families are starting to develop our own traditions. Amy makes pumpkin pie; I make pecan. [...]

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Saturday Special: From A Dad’s Doodle to a Published Pattern

November 12, 2011

Yesterday was Veterans’ Day and many of us spent at least part of our day offering remembrance and thanks to the men and women who have served in our country’s armed forces. My own dad served in the Army and was stationed on Johnston Island, where he was witness to some of the nuclear weapons [...]

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Saturday Special: Connecting in the Cloud

November 5, 2011

Where did the year go? No, seriously—where? How can it possibly be November already? Maybe when we turn the clocks back tomorrow night, we could turn them back two months instead of one hour. That would work, right?  Well, it was worth a shot.   Quilt of the Week This quilt was Victoria Findlay Wolfe’s [...]

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Saturday Special: Raindrops on Quilts and Cozy Flannels

October 29, 2011

I am not, not not sitting around feeling sorry for myself while my compatriots are off in Houston living it up and hobnobbing with the hot names in the quilt biz. Nope, I’ve been inspired by our recent visit with Emily Cier, author of Scrap Republic (my very own copy of which just arrived on [...]

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Saturday Special: Blues Clues to the Rescue and Heads of Death. Plus: Modern Mix Winner

October 22, 2011

In just a few more days, Jake and Melissa will be winging off to Houston, leaving me and Scott to man the helm at GenQ HQ all by ourselves.  And while we could sit around feeling sorry for ourselves that we don’t get to be privy to all the exciting fabrics and patterns and products [...]

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Saturday Special: Time Travel and Dear Jane Goes Psychedelic

October 15, 2011

Hey there, Q-Bies… We’re shivering here, and not with the crispness of the season, either. It’s excitement! In less than two weeks, we’re Houston-bound for Fall Market (which, for quilt journalists, is truly like Nirvana and the Bataan Death March rolled into one). And when it’s over, we’ll be sated…no, overwhelmed by all the sights, [...]

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Saturday Special: Orange 2.0, a Worthy Cause & Scrap Republic Winners

October 8, 2011

Quilt Pick of the Week Okay, so maybe the GenQ staff has orange on the brain, after we hosted the Emily Cier blog tour for Scrap Republic  this past week. Or maybe it’s just such a smashing color that it has all of us playing with it and coming up aces with so-cool quilts. Our [...]

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