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We now have EQ7 Demo Videos right on our website! You can explore what the program can do before you buy or learn more about your new EQ7. View all the current videos and check back often for more. Or request a video and tell us what you want to knwo more about.

Watch a video now!

Catherine Eberly wrote us to share a design she create in EQ6 for the Needle Arts Awards Heart Ornament Contest held by PieceWork Magazine. Her boutis heart ornament (pictured to the left) got honorable mention in PieceWork Magazines Heart Contest! Congrats!

We are constanly amazed with the things people design in EQ and we appreciate you sharing them with us!

See all the winners here!

Catch the EQ7 lesson in this months issue of Quiltmaker magazine! The lesson shows you how to use your Quiltmaker stencil CDs with your EQ7 and it’s a breeze people

We recently learned that EQ Printables are mentioned in one of The Quilt Show episodes titled Quilting in the Digital Age (Episode 702) available now on their blog! How cool is that!?

Speaking of quilting in this digital age, Digital Essentials by Gloria Hansen, isfull of information on how to get the best color printouts from your inkjet printer. The book also teaches you how to take better digital photos, how to properly work with digital files.

Digital Essentials is a Best Book Awards Winner! Author Gloria Hansen is a quilt artist, writer, and mixed media designer. She knows her stuff! Check out her website to learn more about her.

Andrea Bishop and her husband Matt welcomed their first son on Monday July 19th! James Jacob - to be called JJ - was 8lbs 10oz and born with a full head of dark brown hair. Matt and Andrea are overjoyed and enjoying their new role as mom and dad. We wish them all the best and can’t wait to finally meet little JJ!

The EQ baby boom continues. Another EQ baby is coming later this year. Guess which of our staff members is newly pregnant. You can see the staff here. [Ed. note: we need new pictures! Dean has very short hair now.] We’ll choose one winner at random from all correct answers. One guess per person please. The prize: STASH Spring 2010.

To enter, send an email with your guess to our “Contest Contessa” Sarah Shriver:

To: sarahshriver@electricquilt.com
Subject line: Guess Who
Body: The full name of the staff member you are guessing.
Your Full Name:
Your Email:

Find our directions for this On-the-Go Art Tote in SEQ Professional magazine this month! The images were manipulated and printed from EQ7 and printed on EQ Printables fabrics.

She’s done it! Judy of The Virtual Quilter made her goal of posting 1,000 quilts by June 7th! Quilt #1,000 was is Scrappy Antiques (on the left). It’s amazing enough that she’s posted 1,000 quilts to share with everyone but even more amazing that each one is beautiful, well thought out, and visually stunning! These aren’t just quick quilts that she’s posting.

We thank you Judy for giving us something fun to follow while everyone waited for the EQ7 to arrive at their door! Now Judy is designing in EQ7 and posting those quilts on her blog so go check them out. They are beautiful.

Check out the Bramble Hill Hut kit from Sue Spargo. Using this kit and the contents of the Sue Spargo Folk Art Dreams CD you can create this adorable hut! Check out what else Sue has to offer on her website.

A new “I Teach EQ7″ blog badge for you! We know that that so many of you have begun teaching EQ7 classes and we thought you should have a badge for that. Happy teaching!

Jean Rhubin shares a quilt she designed and made in honor of her father. Beautiful quilt.

“I made this quilt in honor of my father. When he passed away, the thank you cards had the images of the birds — in the ‘missing man’ type of formation — with one veering off in a different direction from all the other birds. The following quilt, “Going Home” was designed based on that card. I used medium and light pastels to represent a sunset and appliqued the birds over the pieced base. The words in the bottom border, “Going home…” are embroidered in metallic gold thread. The quilting in the background, although it does not show up in the photos, is also the outlines of many more birds, that are all going in the direction of the main flock. This is one of my favorite quilts. It means a lot to me.”
Jean Rhubin
Clermont, Florida

Sindy of Sindy’s Stuff blog has a great little tip to share about EQ. When it came time to remodel the bathroom she was stumped about how she was going to do it without the help of the handymen in her life. So she turned to EQ for help with planning out her new space! Here’s how Sindy explains:

“I didn’t have Jon or my Daddy at my side to cut and measure. They have always done that part of he improvements jobs (down at the River). This time I was on my own and on a budget! I had to make the most out of the sheets I bought. Graph paper, tape measure, pencil, I was on a roll. Then smashed right into a brick wall. I just could not get onto paper what I needed. It was like I had brain lock. Shazam! I had an epiphany, I opened up EQ7 and started designing a custom set quilt! I made each of the sections of paneling I needed into a block and began dragging and dropping them onto my paneling sheet sized Quilt! Used the add text tool on layer two and put in the measurements for each block. Printed it off and sped to Lowe’s! I felt so empowered!!! The look on the young man’s face that was doing the cutting for me was priceless. “You did this in what?”

Read her blog to learn more!

We have a winner for the Daffy Taffy contest! The answer was 400 pieces and Ann Waldron guessed 398 pieces! Wow, talk about close! Congratulations Ann who won a pack of Quilter’s Newsprint.

Thank you all for playing!

It’s been a while since we’ve had a blog badge winner so to soothe the aches of a Monday I’m giving away a prize!

Sandy of Quilting and Moreblog is today’s winner! Check out her blog and see how she uses EQ, get her yummy recipes, and see what else she’s up to!

Have you heard about Quilts for Kids? It’s a great organization that donates quilts to children with life threatening illnesses. Their mission statement reads: Transforming discontinued, unwanted and other fabrics into patchwork quilts that comfort children with life-threatening illnesses and children of abuse.
So if you are looking for a new project to get started on consider using your fabric stash on a good cause! Volunteer quilters can request a kit and make a quilt to send to the organization for distribution.