modern quilting

Now Touring: Modern Applique Illusions – Casey York

November 17, 2014

Quilt Market has many wonderful aspects, but one of our faves is SchoolHouse. Held the day before Market officially opens, SchoolHouse is a day of 15- and 30-minute presentations, hosted by different companies, to promote new products and teach new trends. In the case of publishers, new authors come and present their books, talking about [...]

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An Interview with Angela Walters & give away with Craft Foxes

June 30, 2014

Hey there, Q-Bies! Did you ever want to get into the head of a particular quilter and pick their brain about quilterly things? We did! And we did!  We (along with Lisa Fulmer of CraftFoxes – check out the CraftFoxes blog!) recently had the opportunity to ask a few questions of quilter, teacher, author, fabric [...]

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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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We Sew 2 at International Quilt Festival

June 28, 2013

  What happens when you bring a GenQ junior editor to International Quilt Festival in Chicago and set her loose with a camera? We wanted to find out. So we gave Cydney Mooney a camera and a media pass, and let her roam. And you know what we learned? She comes home with more stuff [...]

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Now Touring – Modern Designs for Classic Quilts by Kelly Biscopink and Andrea Johnson

November 9, 2012

I help write the book reviews here at GenQ and so some days I swear it is like my birthday as I unwrap brown envelopes to find what new book is waiting for me. To a quilting book junky like me, I really could not have a better job. Just before I was getting ready [...]

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Saturday Special: Snapshots of Family and Love.

June 16, 2012

Post of the Week: Melissa found this post by Angela Walters last week, and we all agreed that the combination of quilts and family reunions were a winning combination. We love how Angela’s husband’s Grandpa started this quilty tradition of luring relatives with quilts as prizes rather than the usual family secret recipe smorgasbord (although [...]

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SCOOPS: Nothing in Common But Our Love

April 4, 2012

We try. We really do. But sometimes we just can’t bring together the common thread between the books that we pick, except that we just plain old love them. And that’s what we have here. Three well-crafted and fun books that inspire us in different ways. Steampunk Softies: Scientifically Minded Dolls From a Past that [...]

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