Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

More EQ7 quilts posted from the InkLingo/EQ Love the Lines contest. They are so beautiful. Everyone did a great job! Go check them out!

Remember this Inklingo Love the Lines contest we told you about? A little monkey told me that the Inklingo winners have been announced on their blog Go see!

Congratulations to Marlene Oddie! She takes home the grand prize for her original BOM quilt design. This quilt just jumped off the screen at us. She will be receiving the complete Quilting Designs Collection and we hope she loves it! Thank you to EVERYONE who participated in the BOM Challenge throughout 2011. We had so much fun seeing your projects and fabric choices. If you haven’t already check out the finished quilts. We would also like to mention that Linda Erikson’s BOM quilt won Best Of Show at their Hummingbird Stitchers Quilt Guild show. Amazing, Linda! Thanks for sharing your good news with us.

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Our friend and EQ7 designer, Betty Dalton sent us her newest EQ7 design and accomplishment. She tells us about it below: “As you know so well I am just learning.  Last year I took a class under Sally Collins (saltear@earthlink.net; www.sallycollins.org; 1-925-938-1708) at the Pigeon Forge Quiltfest 2011.  She is a precision expert. We made the center medallion using a traditional block (Sally provided the block pattern).  Bilaterally symmetrical fabric (Sophia) from Jinny Beyer was my choice.  Our palette was developed from our focus fabric.  The center square was created by trial and error (I used EQ).  We selected a motif from the focus fabric, cut four identical triangles then stitched them together.  She is a stickler for accuracy.  She coached us as we tried to meet her desired expectations.  When we returned home we then designed our own quilt using that block as the centerpiece. I struggled and struggled

Marjorie of Marjorie’s Quilting Bee blog wrote me this morning about a blog post she recently put up. She gives some REALLY helpful tips about how to use AccuQuilt Go! dies with your EQ7 and how printing out rotary cutting for your AccuQuilt dies is really easy. She gives you great visuals too. This lady knows her EQ! Check it out. Marjorie has several articles on EQ and all are great. Here’s a list of the others.