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Now Touring: Project Teen Handmade Gifts Your Teen Will Actually Love by Melissa Mortenson

October 14, 2014

A book can only go well when the author, Melissa Mortenson starts out like this: “Case in point: A few years ago I decided, like crazy person, to make a quilt for each of my kids for Christmas. I’ve got three of them—kids, that is. Not being the best manager of time when it comes to [...]

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Quilt as Desired, Round 2

September 30, 2014

Identical blocks + different quilters = stitchy madness! Riddle us this, Q-bies: What three little words will make quilters stop in their tracks with eyes twitching and teeth gnashing? Answer: “Quilt as desired.” To have some fun with this law of the q-niverse, we gave identical blocks to a group of quilters, and in our [...]

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Between the Covers: Generation Q September/October Issue

August 27, 2014

September often feels like the beginning of the year. After all, Back-to-School is here, the weather starts changing, and we start to get ready for winter. You know what that means? Yep. Quilts. Hey, you’ve caught us in a lie! For us, quilts are year-round events. We quilters can find any reason, excuse, event, cause, [...]

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In the Q-niverse: Quilts In The Trees

August 26, 2014

(Editor’s Note: GenQ contributor Stephanie Thompson shared these thoughts and images from a recent quilt show she attended. Nothing says summer like quilts flapping in a warm breeze!) by Stephanie Thompson Quilts grow on trees in Kansas…at least they were earlier this summer at the Bartlett Arboretum in Belle Plaine, Kansas. On any day, [...]

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Now Touring: Sew a Modern Home by Melissa Lunden

August 20, 2014

I know you hear us say this a lot, but this book is way cool. Really! Sew a Modern Home stitched and written by Melissa Lunden, and published by Martingale, is literally a quilty home reno plan between two covers. From crib sheets to pillows, play mats to place mats, quilts for the front porch (picnic) and [...]

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Sew In Style: Make Your Own Doll Clothes Blog Tour

July 26, 2014

When author Erin Hentzel approached us about joining the blog tour for her new book Sew In Style: Make Your Own Doll Clothes, I quickly agreed. Having a 10-year-old daughter (and junior editor) who LOVES her American Girl doll, I bet you can understand why there was no hesitation. I have made doll clothes for [...]

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In The Q-niverse – The Sewing Party

July 21, 2014

Attention, Q-Bies! Who doesn’t like a good party involving the best ingredients: fabric, thread, batting and great teachers like Carrie Bloomston, Kevin Kosbab, Bari J Ackerman, Rob Appel, and so many more from the quilting,/sewing/home decorating/embroidery world. After all, we know this is one big stitchy world. “The Sewing Party” is the first ever online-all-day [...]

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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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To Market! To Market!

May 13, 2014

Pittsburgh, are you ready? A whole buncha people who drool over fabric and love to create are hitting your fair city, and yes, we Gen-Qers will have our place in the horde. For those who don’t know, Quilt Market is the bi-annual industry trade show open to quilt shop owners, fabric and pattern designers and other related [...]

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In the Q-niverse: Quilts and Color exhibit at the Boston Museum

May 1, 2014

Our friend, Donna Morales-Oemig, kindly agreed to attend a press event for the recent opening of Quilt and Color: The Pilgrim/Roy Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The following is her firsthand account of what she experienced at this special exhibit. Quilts and Color: The Pilgrim/Roy Collection by Donna Morales-Oemig. Boston tourism [...]

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