Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

Judy Momenzadeh and Michaele Shapiro (also known as Mo and Mike) are award winning art quilters who like to use digital images in their art. Of course they use EQ Printables.  They have a great Etsy shop where they sell kits to make photo quilts. Check it out here!

Enjoy this free block for Memorial Day! The Electric Quilt Company will be closed today, May 27th. Have a fun and safe holiday!

Stop by MyEQBoutique.com to save 20% on this adorable A Day at the Beach applique block collection, or any other patterns available from MyEQBoutique.com! This Memorial Day savings ends on Tuesday, May 28. Spend $20 to get 20% your order! You can’t beat that!

One of our users, Claire Haillot, has been using EQ7 to make panel quilts. She even gives seminars on the subject! Claire points out that one key to designing panel quilts with EQ7 is using the photo library to keep big fabric to size. Claire says… “Trick to design with panels : Use JPEG format of the panel and import the file as a photo. Using the Set Photo tool, you will be able to set the photo onto layer 2 (I always keep the layer 1 for fabric only but if you just want to see the design, and not calculate yardage, you can set on layer 1) FOR RUNNING BORDERS This portion needs to be done through a photo software (I use Picasa3) Rotate the picture so that you have it as it would be in your border (horizontal straight, horizontal upside down, vertical to the left, vertical to

Have you noticed these black and white crossword looking things showing up lately? They are called QR (Quick Response) Codes. If you take a picture of the QR Code with your smartphone it will usually take you to a website, but it can also encode other stuff, like your contact information, or any text you’d like. The above QR code links to electricquilt.com. You can make them for free at sites like qrcode.kaywa.com. Again, you can set it up to link to anything you want. So, link it directly to the sign-up for your newsletter, to friend your shop on Facebook, go directly to your Etsy shop, follow you on Pinterest or Twitter…it’s easier than handing out web addresses and hoping people type it in and find what they are looking for.  I was thinking that they would be a fun addition to quilt labels. So, if someone sees your

Sue Gruber is a wonderful quiltmaker and photographer from Bowling Green, Ohio. Today she shares with us one of her beautiful bird quilts made using EQ Printables Inkjet Fabric Sheets. Here’s what Sue says about her quilt: “The bird is a white ibis. I took the photo in Crystal River, Florida. The picture was edited using Photoshop, then imported into EQ. I set the photo into a one block quilt of the exact size I want to print it. Then I printed the photo from EQ, which lets me set the size of the fabric sheets and landscape or portrait layout. EQ tiles the photo for printing, including stitching lines to sew the fabric sheets together. This was printed on the 13″ x 19″ Regular Cotton Fabric Sheets on my Epson printer. These sheets have a very soft hand after printing, I have used them in many projects with good

We’ve got Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks, Volume 2 for you at MyEQBoutique.com. Buy block-by-block, or purchase the full collection for $29.99! Best part is that you can print the patterns at any size. Check out Quiltmaker’s Volume 1 collection too!