Saturday Special: Working in Someone Else's Vibe and a Stunning Lady

Hello, Q-bies!

We hope you’re having a grand weekend, in these waning days of summer. Although for some of us, it’s technically over. Melissa sat out on the patio in Albuquerque at dawn yesterday, listening to the nearby high school marching band start its zero-hour rehearsals. Yet the rest of our tiny Gen-Q staff sprinkled throughout California, Maryland and Washington still has kiddos who are footloose and school-free.

Whether you’re fielding the first homework of the school year, or shopping for clothes for those kids who suddenly grew 6 inches, though, you DO have time for a little quilty eye candy.

So here, courtesy of Scott Hansen of Blue Nickel Studios and our advertising manager/cabana boy, are some q-sweets for the sweet!

Blog post of the week ….   

This post on Handmade by Alissa snagged Scott’s eye. Why? Well, at first it was the summer mod beach-house feel of the quilt, but when he read on, it was her story that that clinched it, he says.

“I really liked how Alissa’s mom gave her all the fabrics, and they weren’t fabric that Alissa herself would have picked out, but she enjoyed the challenge of working with them in spite of that.  I think this could have gone many ways, but I really like how she used the bold stripes to give a sand-and-surf feel and the quilting reminds me a lot of the texture of windblown sand. I also love the clouds as binding. Maybe it’s that family thing (and I’m a big family guy), but I also really like the daughter/mother connection, too. Mother’s fabrics, daughter’s voice…..cool !”

Quilt of the week….

You want to see stunning? Follow this link to see a drop-dead gorgeous Lady of the Lake rendition by Lynn Harris, aka the little red hen. It’s a symphony of triangles with a cutting-edge lime green as the star instrument. Here’s what Scott has to say about it:

“I love how this quilt merges a traditional pattern with non-traditional colors. The lime green and white really make it pop, and the white binding makes it seem very upscale to me. (White binding here in our country house would never last long! ) The white binding indicates a more cosmopolitan life to me but the pattern seems very down-to-earth traditional. I like that combination.”

Got a quilt or blog post candidate you’d like to nominate for one of our picks of the week? Just shoot an e-mail to Scott at scott@generationqmagazine.com and tell him all about it!