Happy Weekend, Q-bies!
Scott Hansen of Blue Nickel Studios (and also the GenQ cabana boy and advertising manager) has picked a few tidbits to keep you in the GenQ mood until our weekday wheel starts turning again.
Quilt of the week
Normally, Scott says he prefers prints over solids, but he does find something freeing about an all-solids quilt, specifically this beauty from Upstatelisa. “To paraphrase Gwen Marston, solids never go ‘outdated,’ so there is something ‘classic’ about them,” he says. “What really drew me deeper into this quilt was that it was hand quilted and the linked blog post regarding its creation was filled with a great love for the creation. And it had a pieced back, which the hand quilting also looks wonderful on….”
Blog post of the week
We try to be trend-sniffers here at GenQ, and Scott thinks Amy Smart might be onto something with her musings about color shifts she’s tracking via Pinterest. Read her prognostications here, and then let us know what you think…..
More Q-Chat…
- In our view, September has some good stuff going on, such as school starting and state fairs being held across much of the country. But it’s also National Sewing Month, so how about a little more flash and sizzle of the cloth-oriented kind, hmmm? We think the perfect fix is the Westminster Sew-Along led by Tula Pink, the amazing artist behind Prince Charming and other fab FreeSpirit Fabrics lines. The month-long sew-fest is being held to celebrate this month of needlework charm. Teaming up with Tula and FreeSpirit are Burdastyle and Coats & Clark. Click here to get the full scoop and to sign up!
Got any news we can help spread? Give us a shout at Melissa@generationqmagazine.
COMMENT #1
Thanks for selecting to show my quilt! It is a quilt with lots of love from around the world sewn into it!
COMMENT #2
the colour trends? Everything old is new again – so yes – I do believe we’ll see those colours again – probably sooner rather than later. 😛