We’re partnering with Island Batik to bring you a new quilt design challenge featuring the Quilted in Honor fabric collection by Kathy Engle for Island Batik. The Quilted in Honor fabric collection was created to benefit Operation Homefront. You can read more about the Quilted in Honor project by clicking here.
How to Get Started
Visit the Free Fabrics of the Month page and download the new Quilted in Honor collection. You can find instructions on that page about how to link the the Fabric Library to your EQ7.
Challenge Rules
- You must design your quilt using Electric Quilt 7 (EQ7) design software.
- The quilt design must be colored with Quilted in Honor fabrics ONLY!
- Three design categories to choose from: Pieced, Appliqué, or Combination (pieced + appliqué)
- Any size!
- No sewing required. The “virtual” EQ7 quilt design is all that’s needed to enter.
- One entry per person
Submission Guidelines
On Wednesday, October 1st there will be a blog post where you can link up an image of your quilt design. The link up will be open until Friday, October 3 at 5pm EDT. The winners will be announced shortly after!
Judging
Winners will be chosen by special guest judges Annie Unrein and Pat Sloan.
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Prizes
One winner will be chosen from each of the three categories (Pieced, Appliqué, and Combination)
If your quilt makes the top 50 best designs, we will ask you to send us the project file. These will be available for all users as free EQ7 project downloads on DoYouEQ.com!
Each winner will receive:
An Island Batik fabric bundle consisting of 5 yards of their bright and colorful new batiks!
An EQ with Me book of the winner’s choice
And an EQ Stash Online download of their choice
Download the Quilted in Honor fabrics and start designing!
08-08-2014
6:34 pm
Hello Jenny,
How many fabrics from this collection should be used in the project? I mean minimum…
Can I use other threads than black for quilt stencils?
Interesting challenge – thank you for sharing.
With the Best Wishes
- Danka
08-11-2014
9:23 am
Hello Danka,
There is no minimum fabric requirement, as long as you are only using fabrics from the Quilted in Honor collection. There are no restrictions on thread colors.
Have fun designing!
08-19-2014
11:51 pm
Is this competition open to people from other countries such as Australia?
08-20-2014
11:30 am
Hi Judith,
The challenge is open to anyone with EQ7!
09-22-2014
10:16 am
I’ve read this post, just wanna say it’s amazing. It’s my pleasure to have the proper guide of these latest designs. I’m just gonna download them and start work soon.