April’s prize: Judy Martin Star’s & Sets software A winner will be chosen on May 2, 2011 9am Eastern. Thanks for submitting your pictures to webmaster@electricquilt.com! Don’t worry about sending a professional photograph. As long as it isn’t on too much of an angle and I can see the whole block and the image is over 400px, I can crop it for the blog. Want the April Accord pattern? Visit this page of our blog: https://doyoueq.com/blog/?p=2254 Block 1 Submitted by: JoAnn Korzenko Block 2 Submitted by: Cathy Buel Block 3 Submitted by: Paula Miceli Block 4 Submitted by: Béatrice Marotte Block 5 Submitted by: Barbara Rodebush Block 6 Submitted by: Sharon Palmer Block 7 Submitted by: Heather Ingram Block 8 Submitted by: Danni Warne Block 9 Submitted by: Claudia Lischewski-Havnes Block 10 Submitted by: Carol Baldry Block 11 Submitted by: Mary Markworth Block 12 Submitted by: Vicki Cranfield Block 13
EQ Block of the Month: Finished April Accord Blocks
Posted 04-01-2011 by Electric Quilt | Posted in: Uncategorized
Congratulations to the March Block of the Month Winner – Barbara D’Angelo
Posted 04-01-2011 by Electric Quilt | Posted in: Uncategorized
Thanks to everyone for submitting blocks for the March Block of the Month. It was difficult choosing from the 65 amazing entries from all over the world. This month’s winner is Barbara D’Angelo. She submitted block #14: Congratulations Barbara! You’ve won a free Blending Photos with Fabric 2 book. We will be contacting your shortly about shipping your prize. April’s block (April Accord) is ready for your entries. Submit a picture of your April Accord block before May 1, 2011 8am Eastern to webmaster@electricquilt.com for a chance to win a free Judy Martin Star’s & Sets software in May.
EQ Block of the Month: April Accord
Posted 04-01-2011 by Electric Quilt | Posted in: Uncategorized
As promised here is BLOCK #4 of our 2011 Block of the Month on our blog. It’s called April Accord. Deadline for submitting your block picture to webmaster@electricquilt.com for a chance to win is May 1, 2011 8am Eastern. Click here to download the EQ7 project for April. 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.
Using Electric Quilt for Tile Design
Posted 03-28-2011 by Electric Quilt | Posted in: Uncategorized
For the last year, my husband, his father, his grandfather, and his cousin and I have been working off and on updating the master bath at our house. We’re not quite done, but we’re finally at a point where we can use the shower and sinks. Yippee! When it came time to design the shower, we looked into buying pre-made mosaic floors, but those cost upwards of $500 for a 48″x48″ design. Our floor was more like 45″x47.5″, so we were concerned about how that would impact any design we purchased. EQ to the rescue! There were only a few things I needed to know in order to be able to mock it up in Electric Quilt 7: 1. I measured the floor. 2. Our tiles came in two colors (black & pepper gray) and the granite was 12″ square. 3. The smallest we were willing to cut was 3″x3″.
Cute kid quilt for the new learner
Posted 03-28-2011 by Electric Quilt | Posted in: Uncategorized
Did you see “Spot’s Favorite Colors” in the March/April 2011 issue of Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting? It’s on pages 58-61. Ever since EQ’s population explosion, we’ve all had “babies on the brain” and keep designing kid projects. So when I saw the March/April 2011 issue of Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting Gail Kessler’s adorable quilt caught my eye. I could see myself sitting down with my son and saying “what’s this? What color is it?” The quilt is an I-spy quilt with doggies, words, and pictures in a fun vibrant color scheme guaranteed to stimulate your child or grandchild’s curiosity. Gail Kessler is Marketing Director and a fabric designer for Andover Fabrics. She also owns Ladyfingers Sewing Studio in Oley, PA. Check out this past interview we did with Gail. Andover Website – www.andoverfabrics.com Andover Facebook – www.facebook.com/andoverfabrics Andover Blog – www.blog.andoverfabrics.com
March Medley Reminder
Posted 03-26-2011 by Electric Quilt | Posted in: Uncategorized
Designing Hexagon Quilts in EQ7 – free Quiltposium Spring 2011 online issue
Posted 03-24-2011 by Electric Quilt | Posted in: Uncategorized
free + EQ7 software lesson + online magazine = fun! Be sure to check out the Spring 2011 issue of the free online magazine Quiltposium. Andrea wrote an article about one way to design Hexagon quilts in EQ7. Lots of fun pictures and ideas. There are over 180 pages to the magazine this Spring and it’s all free content. Visit www.quiltposium.com to sign up to get the article. You can also read past issues online.