Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

As promised here is BLOCK #12 of our 2011 Block of the Month on our blog. It’s called December Diversion. Deadline for submitting your block picture to webmaster@electricquilt.com for a chance to win is January 1, 2012 8am Eastern. Click here to download the EQ7 project for December. Use any fabrics you want! Use your favorites! Challenge yourself with a new color scheme! If you have EQ7, you can try out the colors before cutting the fabric for the block. Here are some colorway ideas: Download rotary cutting in this colorway. (PDF) Download rotary cutting in this colorway. (PDF) Download foundation piecing. (PDF) Download foundation piecing. (PDF) Download templates. (PDF) Download templates. (PDF) Download rotary cutting in this colorway. (PDF) Download rotary cutting in this colorway. (PDF) Download foundation piecing. (PDF) Download foundation piecing. (PDF) Download templates. (PDF) Download templates. (PDF) Sew the block and send your picture to webmaster@electricquilt.com.

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Don’t forget entries for the November Block of the Month are due by December 1, 2011 8am Eastern. This month’s prize is a free Sue Spargo software. Get the pattern here.

What a fun post from BeaQuilter’s blog the other day. Check out how she does block swaps with EQ7.

We are all loving this fall wall hanging by Darlene Gerber. She used the Pumpkin stencil from Quilting Designs Volume 3. Now she’s ready for guests to arrive for the holidays! Darlene talks about using EQ7: I have been using EQ7 since June of 2010.  I am not a visual person, I can’t close my eyes and see how a quilt will look.  So I use EQ7 to draft the quilt and then if possible, I upload fabrics to add the color and texture of the quilt.  I have also been pattern testing for the last year and use EQ7 to assist in fabric selection and for verifying fabric yardage requirements.  I purchased Quilting Designs Volume 3 and 6 to encourage me to quilt some of my smaller projects myself.  It’s cool how you can audition stencil patterns within EQ7.  I use EQ7 to design a variety of projects; quilts,

Congrats to Leah Holland who was randomly selected as the winner for the Quiltmaker 100 Blocks Volume 4 give away. Thank you to everyone who played along! Remember – you can download the Quiltmaker 100 blocks Volume 1 on MyEQBoutique.com right now. Take 10% off your order when you use promo code WELCOME10 at checkout (Expires Jan 1, 2012)! Watch for more Quiltmaker 100 block collections to follow.

It’s time to vote for the TQPM Quilt Kitties Contest! Head on over and make your selections. They are all funny! http://www.quiltpatternmagazine.com/program/QuiltKitties/photos.html