Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

As promised here is BLOCK #10 of our 2011 Block of the Month on our blog. It’s called October Opportunity. Deadline for submitting your block picture to webmaster@electricquilt.com for a chance to win is November 1, 2011 8am Eastern. Click here to download the EQ7 project for October. 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.

It’s a Treasure Hunt and you’re invited! Enter Quiltmaker’s biggest contest ever for a chance to win fabulous prizes from 23 quilt industry sponsors, including Electric Quilt Company! Look for the Treasure Hunt 2011 button on our website-then click the button to find an entry form. Prizes include a feature-filled sewing machine plus fabric, thread, books and more. The contest runs from 11 a.m. MST on 9/30/11 to 11:59 p.m. MST on 12/7/11. (Find complete rules at quiltmaker.com. No mail-in entries will be accepted. This contest is open to U.S. Residents only.) What is The Electric Quilt Company giving away? We are giving away 20, Volume 3 Quilting Designs programs! Find the button on our site to enter for your chance to win. Happy Hunting!

Thanks to everyone who entered the Small Quilts and Gifts give away from Quiltmaker! The winners have been chosen and we’ve sent them an email that they should recieve their magazines soon. If you make Heidi’s, Tannenbaum Forest, send us a photo! WINNERS: Dorothy Reitsma of Canada Lynn Greer of Nebraska Pati Cook of Arizona Mary Jane Hendrickson of New York Molly Cooper of New Zealand

Don’t forget entries for the September Block of the Month are due by October 1, 2011 8am Eastern. This month’s prize is a free Kaleidoscope Collection Add-on CD. A winner will be chosen on October 3, 2011 for September’s block. Get the pattern here.

A big congratulations to our long time friend and EQer, Jo Moury! She entered her EQ designed quilt, Pickin’ Posies, into a jured show in Frederick, MD and won best in traditional category. What an accomplishment. Does this quilt look familiar to you? That’s because it has been in the EQ Quit Gallery