Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

Last week we told you about DoYouEQ Artist, Karen Combs’ quilt in The Quilter Magazine. The quilts titled This and That was designed in EQ7. But TheQuilterMag.com is offering the complete PDF instructions free on their website! We love that! Go get it.

On Monday Penny and I headed over to Cleveland to tape two segments for Quilting Arts TV. What an exciting experience! Penny did her segment with AnnMarie of Gen X Quilters. Their segment included a design challenge in which they both started with a simple block and then edited it in EQ7 to come up with some very different—and beautiful!—results. Here they are prepping for their segment. I went solo for my segment. I demonstrated modern quilt design using EQ7. I practiced my demo so many times I’m probably mumbling it in my sleep! Here I am with the wonderful host Pokey Bolton. The whole Quilting Arts production team was so nice to work with! It will be several months before the episodes will be ready to air. We’ll be sure to let you know they’re available! If you’d like to watch some of Electric Quilt’s past segments on Quilting

Just a quick photo to share. Heather wrote us to show a quilt she made using EQ Printables fabric sheets. We just adore how she printed her photos in black and white and paired them with fabrics in shades of blue. Another bit of inspiration for photos quilts! Thanks, Heather.

All About Inklingo has posted a new item, ‘Inklingo Spool Blocks for Electric Quilt’. You can download these EQ7 files, design with them, and then print the patterns to your fabric using the Inklingo process. New to Inklingo? Check out the beginners page on their website. Plus, learn how to open these files in EQ7, here. Thanks for including EQ files, Linda!

In the August/September issue of Quilters Newsletter you’ll find a quilt designed by Colleen Francis called “Flowers for My Mother”on page 84. Not only is it a beautiful quilt, but she designed it in Quilt Design Wizard using the log cabin and courthouse step blocks! What a great example of what QDW can do. Thanks so much for sharing with Quilter’s Newsletter, Colleen!

EQ7 isn’t just for quilt designing. We created the pattern for this cute mug sleeve. Get the EQ7 project file.