Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

Designer, Teacher and Quiltmaker and owner of Quilted Escapes® Susan J. Jensen is the British Columbia designer of Quilted Escapes. Susan’s patterns  combines a variety of techniques from beading, stitchery, wool appliqué and foundation paper piecing that gives a romantic feel to her quilt designs. She designs for Northcott Fabric, and RJR (Trend-tex) and has been featured in “The Canadian Quilter” and “A Needle Pulling Thread” and now on the editorial team of the first national Canadian quilt magazine “Quilter’s Connection”.   Through her exposure at International Quilt market her patterns can be found in quilt shops from the coast to coast in Canada, United States and England.  You can find her at “A Great Notion” Quilt Shop a few days a week, if she is not in her studio, as well as travelling teaching at quilt shops, quilt guilds, retreats and consumer shows. With a wonderful sense of humour, the love

Get these funky foliage blocks and create something whimsical! Compliments of EQ’s own, Heidi Kory. DOWNLOAD THE .BLK FILE TO ADD THESE BLOCKS TO  MY LIBRARY Download the .blk file and put the file in My Documents > My EQ7 > Users folder. Then open EQ7, go to Libraries > Block Library > My Library. You will see the Funky Foliage library there. Download the .blk file DOWNLOAD THE .PJ7 FILE TO GET THE QUILT DESIGN Download and save the .PJ7 file to your computer. Double click the file to open it in EQ7. Print and sew the quilt the way Heidi designed it OR make it your own! Download the .pj7 file

One of the big new features in EQ7 is the Image worktable. Once of the features of the Image Worktable is that is has 45 different image effects, including artistic, noise, blur and many more. There are also filters that allow you to sharpen, unsharpen, or detect the edges of your image. In browsing the July ClubEQ Challenge (this challenge was titled, “Birds!“) we found this quilt entry by Dianne Gronfors of Bracebridge, ON Canada. So cool! Dianne explains how she used the new features of the Image Worktable to create this quilt: “I picked an image of a parrot and then used Image>Apply Effects>Distort>Zoom Wave to come up with this modified image. I’ve set it as a one-block wall hanging that is reminiscent to me of modern art.” We love this beautifully creative thinking for both the Birds challenge and using the Image Worktable to design a stunning quilt. Thanks for sharing with

Wowza! We had over 5500 entries for the BlockBase Giveaway. I’m so excited about the response we’ve received about the sew along. I hope you’ll all be back on October 1 when we announce the first block! Without further ado, our 5 BlockBase software winners are: Toni Sullivan Carolyn Browning Franziska Whitehead Robin House Ann Blazer Congratulations! I’ll be sending out an email to our winners shortly. [WINNERS- if you do not hear from me in the next 24 hours, please send me at email: jenny@electricquilt.com] For more details about the upcoming BlockBase Sew Along, click here. Grab a blog badge and spread the word! We start sewing on October 1! [html] <a href="https://doyoueq.com/blog/blockbase-sew-along-announcement" title="quilt block designs, free quilt designs, quilt pattern blocks"> <img src="https://doyoueq.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bb_badge1.jpg" alt="BlockBase Sew Along Blog Badge" width="150" height="150" /> </a> [/html]

EQ author Gloria Hansen of the popular book Digital Essentials, is a member of an art group called 8 That Create. She created this piece called “Yesterday’s Vogue” for an upcoming exhibit in which all works must have a fashion theme. The size requirement was 12″ square. To that Gloria said, “Great. That means I can use EQ Printables, my favorite for inkjet printing on cotton.” We say “great!” too. This is such an awesome quilt and we hope it inspires other projects. Watch for more about this quilt in the coming months when Gloria will guest post on the NEW EQ Blog. 

One of our favorite blogs to follow is that of AnneMarie, Columbus, Ohio, gen X quilters. Her modern style is fun and joyful. She’s a newer EQ7 user but WOW is she ever a fast learner! We met AnneMarie not too long ago and actually, Penny and Jenny just finished shooting episodes with her on Quilting Arts TV (available in 2013). Just the other day, AnneMarie posted this adorable block she made in EQ7: AnneMarie writes us and says,”Yesterday I posted the first paper piecing block I designed with EQ7. It’s a water pitcher block. I’m so thrilled with the results!! This has unleashed a whole new world of possibilities for me. I didn’t know how easy it was to design my own paper pieced designs using the software until now. Thought you might like to see…” Start following gen X quilters. You won’t regret it.