In late September Al Navas bought EQ7. By the end of the week he was designing his own quilts. In less than a month he was writing his own EQ lesson! We were intrigued and asked him a little about himself, included how he started quilting. Al said, “This was pure serendipity! My wife Sandy had been working with embroidery designs for several years, using a Husqvarna Viking Designer Diamond machine. I helped her digitize designs using 5D™ Design Creator, a part of the 5D™ Embroidery Extra suite. She also started quilting a few years ago, first using the Desingner Diamond, and also a home sewing machine; she incorporated embroidered blocks in her quilt designs. Meanwhile I kept learning the digitizing process, until I developed a good work flow; I am now confident I can tackle substantial embroidery digitizing projects. A while back Sandy and her sister pooled money and bought
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Al Navas is an EQ Ace!
Posted 01-07-2015 by Heidi | Posted in: Downloads EQ Designers EQ Software Tips From Our Users Lesson Spotlight Look What I Did New to EQ Related Blogs
Jenny’s Leaf quilt & 100+ free projects!
Posted 11-06-2014 by Heidi | Posted in: Downloads EQ Designers Favorite Posts Related Blogs
If you have EQ7, EQ6 or Quilt Design Wizard why aren’t you checking out our free monthly projects? You are missing out! In September I posted Prismatic Plants. Jenny said she was going to make it. And she did! It turned out great! You can read more about Jenny making the quilt on her blog, Jenny Makes Stuff. This is just one of over 100 free projects available. What are you waiting for? Check them out
Modern Quilts Unlimited Summer Issue
Posted 08-18-2014 by Heidi | Posted in: EQ Designers EQ News and Press EQ Software Tips More for EQers Related Blogs
The summer issue of Modern Quilts Unlimited is now available! It’s chocked full of Electric Quilt goodies, designers and information! Patio by Jennifer Schifano Thomas of Curlicue Creations is included. The quilt is so cute! She designed it in EQ7. Jennifer says, “My design process usually starts the old fashioned way, with pencil and paper. After that, I take it to the EQ design program and that’s where my ideas really bloom! Patio started out as just some simple blocks with yellow rectangles. It was ALL yellow in the beginning. I changed the block design, until I was happy with that (I especially like the look this quilt has where the corners of the blocks come together). Then I got to do my favorite part, play with the color! As a child I always wanted to have “all the colors”. All the crayons, all the magic markers, all the paint,
Behind the scenes account: Making a Raffle Quilt for the International Quilt Festival in Houston
Posted 04-08-2014 by Heidi | Posted in: EQ Designers EQ Software Tips Related Blogs
Kimmy Brunner at afabricplayground.blogspot.com has been chosen to make raffle quilt for the International Quilt Festival in Houston. Kimmy says her first thought was “Oh my gosh, I have got to make this quilt a showstopper! and the first tool I turned to was EQ7. The software has allowed me to draft a difficult and elaborate pattern that I think will turn out very well indeed. Thank you so much for making this tool available to me!” You can read more about her quilt making here and here and watch her blog for more updates, too! Kimmie continues on her blog, “I have found [EQ7] to be utterly invaluable when creating quilts that are out of the ordinary. I’m not exactly what you might call a math whiz and, unfortunately, a lot of math is required when drafting funky quilt patterns. Using this software frees me from the math part and
Have you seen all of our FREE Users Projects?
Posted 03-01-2014 by Heidi | Posted in: Downloads EQ Designers
Our website has so much to offer, sometimes it’s easy to overlook stuff. Have you seen all of our FREE user’s projects? All of these projects are made our users. We have some from Christa Quilts, Jan T Urquhart Baillie, Terri Nice, Claire Haillot, Regina Grewe, Sarah Vedeler, Simonetta Marini, Danka Kruszewska, Angela Glaze, Sindy Rodenmayer, Carol Honderich, Jo Moury, Angie Padilla, BusyBeePatterns, Nancy Mahoney, Evelyn Townsend, Erin McMorris, Inklingo, Cath Picaut, Andrea Bishop, Linda Poole, Georgia McCroy, CabinQuilter (and me)! Click here to check out all the projects. One of the projects included is this cute little quilt by Marian Pena. Let’s hope that even if winter comes in like a lion, it leaves like a lamb
Valentine Table Runner from Connie at Freemotion Quilting By The River
Posted 02-05-2014 by Heidi | Posted in: EQ Designers EQ Software Tips Related Blogs
Turkey Talk from Sindy Rodenmayer
Posted 11-22-2013 by Heidi | Posted in: Downloads EQ Designers Lesson Spotlight