Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

This quilt, by Tula Pink, was spotted at Spring Market.                       I love the idea, a sampler put into a larger design. I made a few in EQ7.             One of the things in EQ that make it really easy, in the Line Brush tool. If you click and hold on the Paintbrush tool, other paintbrush options will pop up. One is the Line Brush Tool.                     I used the Line Brush to draw out a rough shape.             Then I just filled the shape in with the blocks I wanted to use. EQ7 makes it pretty easy!     If this inspires you to make something, let us know! Email photos to Heidi@electricquilt.com.

25 applique block designs all ready for summer time! See these designs and more at MyEQBoutique.com!

SewCalGal hosted a very popular Free Motion Quilt Challenge in 2012 and she’s doing it again in 2013! If you’re interested in developing or improving your free motion quilting skills, check out this wonderful series of challenges. Challenge #5 is All About Borders and has a special challenge opportunity for EQ users! Click here for more info on the special EQ challenge and check out the inspiring work. Participants have until October 31 to complete the challenges.

Have you seen the new issue of Quiltmaker yet? The beautiful Sparkling Bubbles quilt on the cover was designed by Eileen Fowler and you can find some great New York Beauty variations designed in EQ7 on page 28. Check out the Creative Spark article where you can download an EQ7 project for the Sparkling Bubbles quilt and find a fun tutorial on how to draw the variation blocks in EQ!

Here is a cute and simple Log Cabin Flower quilt. Enjoy!

Welcome to the Block 2 post for the EQ7 Summer Drawing Series! We’ll start each month with a drawing lesson that focuses on one of the drawing styles available on the Block Worktable. Then, at the end of the month, we’ll have a link up post where everyone can show off a photo of their sewn block. That’s right, we’re not just drawing in this series, we’re SEWING too! Block 2 is drawn on the PatchDraw Block Worktable. The PatchDraw Block Worktable has both Pieced and Appliqué tabs at the bottom of the screen. We’ll only use the Pieced tab for this lesson. We’ll tackle that Appliqué tab next month! PatchDraw is aptly named because you construct the block by drawing closed patches (unlike EasyDraw where you drew straight or curved lines and the software created the patches for you). The best part of Pieced PatchDraw is the specialized click-and-snap

I’m so excited to see everyone’s blocks! Here’s my block: I hope this drawing lesson has given you the confidence to try drawing some of your own blocks on the EasyDraw Worktable. In case you missed it, check out the mini lesson for drawing a few variations of Block 1. To Link Up Your Photo Scroll down to the comment form at the end of this post. Fill in your info and make sure you select an image for your comment (this will be the photo of your block). If you have a blog, make sure to add your site too. If you wrote a post for this block, please link directly to that post. Let’s visit each others’ blogs and all get to know each other! You can link up your Block 1 photo at any time. But for those who link up by Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 9