If you’ve been with us for a while, you’ll notice that each year around this time, we have a cute little visitor to our site:
It’s our friend, Sunbonnet Sue, and she has the very important job of decorating the tree each year! She holds a special place in our hearts here at EQ and I thought I’d share a little bit about her story today.
Penny McMorris & Dean Neumann, EQ founders
The Sunbonnet Sue animation was created by Dean Neumann, EQ co-founder and programmer. She made her first appearance on our site back in 1996, shortly after our first website was launched. EQ3 was our current version of the software at that time.
Electric Quilt 1 – 7 Product Boxes
EQ3 could only export PCX files (PiCture eXchange) for images. Dean made the animation by drawing individual blocks on the Block Worktable for each of the movements. He exported a PCX for each block and then “stitched” those image files together to create the animation.
This year, we’d like to share the Holiday Sunbonnet Sue block with all of our users! Click here to download the Holiday Sunbonnet Sue EQ7 project file. The project includes the original block design, and a new quilt design featuring the block.
Happy holidays from all of us here at The Electric Quilt Company!
12-10-2015
5:33 pm
It isn’t Christmas without the EQ Sunbonnet Sue decorating a tree. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to the entire EQ Team.
QuiltShopGal
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12-11-2015
2:14 pm
Thanks Darlene! Happy holidays to you and your family too!
12-11-2015
10:11 am
Love this posting. I have been using EQ since version 4 and I am constantly discovering different things I can do with the program. Thanks for the Sunbonnet Sue gift!
12-11-2015
2:15 pm
Merry Christmas Yvonne! Hope you have a wonderful holiday season
12-11-2015
2:35 pm
Sunbonnet Sue has always been one of my most favorite applique oe quilting things. Thank you so much.
12-11-2015
7:34 pm
Thanks for such a nice Christmas gift! This is a great addition to my EQ quilt projects.
12-20-2015
10:26 am
Thanks for the nice Sunbonnet. I like her.
12-01-2017
2:10 pm
Thank you for the great block of Sunbonnet Sue. Just love her. Is there a place to download the previous blocks that I have missed? Merry Christmas to all at Electric Quilt! May you all have a very blessed Christmas and New Year!!