Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

    Download this cute spring birdie free for EQ7, here.

An easy, sentimental idea is an EQ Printable pillow. Scan, or take a photo, of a ticket or other memento. Perfect for concert tickets, plane tickets, favorite movie stub, honeymoon tickets…anything special you’d like to see everyday.   If this inspires you to make something, let us know! Email photos to Heidi@electricquilt.com.

Christiane Wipplinger has a collection of 16 blocks at MyEQBoutique.com that can quickly turn into beautiful quilt designs. You’ll be amazed! Do you own EQ7? My EQ Boutique blocks can be linked to EQ7 so you can see even more possibilities.

Hexagons are the theme of the newest issue of Quiltmaker. Check out the creative technique Anita Grossman Solomon uses on page 20 to make two-sided hexagons in her quilt, Hexacadabra. Then flip to the Creative Spark section on page 24 to see variations of the quilt created in EQ7. Check out the Drawing Hexagons in EQ7 lesson available on Quiltmaker’s site too! One way to draw a hexagon with pencil and paper is to inscribe it in a circle. We can draw a hexagon much the same way in EQ7 using the Circle grid on the PatchDraw worktable. Take a look at the lesson and you’ll soon be drawing hexagon blocks like the ones shown in the sampler quilt here.

You can download this cheeky little bunny here. Happy Easter from The Electric Quilt Company!

Here we are at the very last block of the sew along! You should all be experts at using BlockBase now and I hope that you had fun picking out your own block. I can’t wait to see all the variety in this link up! Since we all made our own choice, make sure to write the BlockBase number of your block in the comment box (and maybe tell us why you choose it too!). I choose block #1931: As you can imagine, it was not easy to choose only 12 blocks from the over 4000 available in the software (tough job, right?). Eventually I was able to narrow it down to 20 blocks and this was one of the blocks on that list. 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

Get this cute Easter block collection designed by Sindy Rodenmayer. See more!