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Creative Spark – Quiltmaker Nov/Dec ’14

Posted 11-10-2014 by | Posted in: EQ News and Press Favorite Posts

Look at that cutie in the new issue of Quiltmaker! That’s my son and he’s making an appearance in the Creative Spark article in the November/December 2014 issue! We’re talking about using EQ7 to design pieced Christmas stockings. Click over to Quiltmaker’s site to read the accompanying EQ7 lesson. You can apply the same idea to lots of different irregular shaped patchwork projects- like purse panels and clothing patterns.

Quilted in Honor Quilt Design Challenge: Winners!

Posted 10-08-2014 by | Posted in: Congratulations Contests EQ News and Press EQ Quilt Contest

We are happy to announce the winners of the Quilted in Honor Design challenge! To see all the beautiful entries, click here. Pieced: Susan R. Polan Judges’ comments: I love the intricacies of the pieced checkerboards in the borders and how they tie the various elements of the quilt together. I’d love to see this quilt made up! Combination (pieced and appliqué): Jo Moury Judges’ comments: Fantastic quilt and I especially enjoyed reading your plans for appliquéing and quilting it. The words in the border will be wonderful. I’ll look forward to seeing the “real” quilt in a show some day! It is sure to be a winner. The appliqué eagle is a wonderful tribute. Because there were no entries for the Appliqué category, we asked the judges to choose their favorite quilt from the remaining entries. Judges’ Choice: Darlene Gerber Judges’ comments: Thank you for honoring  the men and

EQ7 Mystery Quilt in The Canadian Quilter – Part 2

Posted 09-26-2014 by | Posted in: EQ News and Press EQ Software Tips

  The Canadian Quilterhas written a great multi-part series, making a Mystery Quilt with EQ7. In May they published the first installment. It talks about fabrics – including importing your own fabrics, downloading them from manufacturers websites (Northcott has a button right on their site!) and installing our free fabric downloads, amongst other things. You can read more about it here. Now, the Autumn 2014 issue is out. It covers lots of topics including saving, opening and renaming projects and quilts. The Author, Lauren MacDonald, talks about icons and the different worktables. She also covers saving personal fabric libraries, and more!

Janice Averill’s Magic Stars Quilt

Posted 09-24-2014 by | Posted in: EQ News and Press From Our Users User Spotlight

In the September/October issue of Quiltmaker you’ll find Janice Averill’s gorgeous Magic Stars quilt. When you look at this quilt, you wouldn’t believe that the individual block looks like this: On Quiltmaker’s blog, Janice shares how she drew the block in EQ7 and gives a peek into her design process. It’s quite interesting to read about diagonal designs and see her work evolve from grayscale to color. The Magic Stars quilt is also the focus for this month’s Scrap Squad and you should see the beautiful variations this month’s crew is sewing up! Margaret Kennedy used EQ7 to play with color and layout: And Beth Kerr Helfter re-drafted to a size she was more comfortable working with and combined four blocks into one larger block like this: Click here to check out all the Scrap Squad posts for Magic Stars! Images in this post courtesy of Quiltmaker’s Quilty Pleasures blog.

Creative Spark – Quiltmaker Sept/Oct

Posted 09-08-2014 by | Posted in: EQ News and Press

Have you ever used the Set Auto Borders tool in EQ7? It’s a great way to explore more border options for your designs. The newest issue of Quiltmaker has some great Auto Borders examples for Nancy Mahoney’s Apple Cider quilt (see page 61). Apple Cider by Nancy Mahoney, photo ©Quiltmaker And don’t forget to check out the Auto Borders online lesson available on Quiltmaker’s site! You can read all the EQ7 Creative Spark lessons here. Lots of great EQ7 info!

Modern Quilts Unlimited Summer Issue

Posted 08-18-2014 by | 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,

Mary Puckett and her Zippy Quilts!

Posted 08-06-2014 by | Posted in: EQ News and Press From Our Users Look What I Did Related Blogs

Mary Puckett has been designing in EQ7 for years. Her “Zippy Quilts” are fun, colorful and modern. And they’ve been getting a lot of attention lately! Mary recently had her quilt featured it Modern Quilts Unlimited’s Summer Issue. It was designed in  EQ7! Mary says, “I used the crazy quilt blocks to get some idea of what it would look like, but then the actual piecing was totally improvised.  I did get some idea from my EQ design that I wanted to use tiny pieces rather than larger ones.  I drew the little star in EQ7 using the regular block draw, then printed paper piecing templates.  That’s the only way I’d ever get anything that little pieced accurately!”             Mary has also recently used EQ7 to design an award winning quilt for The Quilt Alliance.   (The Quilt Alliance‘s goal is to ” document, preserve,

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