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As promised here is BLOCK #9 of our 2011 Block of the Month on our blog. It’s called September Soother. Deadline for submitting your block picture to webmaster@electricquilt.com for a chance to win is October 3, 2011 8am Eastern. Click here to download the EQ7 project for September. 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.

Thanks to everyone for submitting blocks for the August challenge. This month there were 38 amazing entries from all over the world. This month’s winner is Robin Grube. She submitted block #14: Congratulations Robin! You’ve won a free Digital Essentials. We will be contacting your shortly about shipping your prize. September block (September Soother) is ready for your entries. Submit a picture of your September Soother. block before October 1, 2011 8am Eastern to webmaster@electricquilt.com for a chance to win a free Kaleidoscope Collection Add-on CD at the end of September.

Don’t forget entries for the August Block of the Month are due by September 1, 2011 8am Eastern. This month’s prize is a free Digital Essentials book. Get the pattern here.

Feed Dog is hosting a contest to win an AccuQuilt GO! I love this contest because it’s all about creativity and not the luck of the draw. To enter, visit his blog for details. But basically, you need to design a block using the AccuQuilt GO! dies. Feed Dog writes about how to design your block: “There are a couple ways. If you use EQ7, you can download block libraries featuring AccuQuilt shapes and drop them into a quilt design—I showed a couple blocks I made with EQ in this post. You can still enter if you don’t have EQ7, though: just download this PDF with a selection of die shapes (each page shows a different die), print it, cut the shapes out, and arrange them to design a block out of paper or fabric. These die shapes are best for appliqué, but you could design a pieced block using other Go dies if you like.

Patchwork Gilde is a beautiful German magazine to which EQ user Danka Kruszewska contributes. She has been writing EQ related editorials and this month she so kindly sent us a copy of the 8th edition. It’s about using the fabric rotating tools, adding tints and shades, and creating charm quilts and water color quilts. Though most of us won’t be able to read this great issue we thought it was so interesting. And well done to Danka! Thanks for sharing with us.

Bonnie of Southern Style blog, entered the Pet’s on Quilts show hosted by SewCalGal. Her EQ7 designs in the show are so interesting and well done that we wanted to share them with all of you as well. She has some really great ideas. Check out her blog. Nice work, Bonnie! See more Pets on Quilts Show Entries.