This contest is now closed. Winners announced here.

With the start of spring only a few weeks away, what better way to celebrate than with March’s Fabric of the Month! This month’s featured collection is Hand Picked: First Light by Nicholas Lapp for Maywood Studio! This collection features textured solids paired perfectly with the colorful florals, giving contrast and highlighting the uniqueness of each individual bloom.

A bundle of these fabrics will be given away to two lucky winners! Submit your EQ design featuring Hand Picked: First Light below…all instructions and contest details are in this post. Good luck!

NEW! To Enter: Let’s build each other up! In order to enter for the giveaway you must submit a quilt using the current Fabric of the Month AND comment on at least one other person’s quilt you like by the end of the month. If you’re the first person to submit a quilt, make sure to come back and comment on someone else’s quilt before the contest ends.

To enter

NEW! To Enter: Let’s build each other up! In order to enter for the giveaway you must submit a quilt using the current Fabric of the Month AND comment on at least one other person’s quilt you like by the end of the month. If you’re the first person to submit a quilt, make sure to come back and comment on someone else’s quilt before the contest ends. Instructions for how to submit an image are at the bottom of this post. Download this month’s Fabric of the Month: Hand Picked: First Light by Nicholas Lapp for Maywood Studio.

Rules

  • Your EQ Quilt must be your original design and only use fabrics from this month’s Fabric of the Month.
  • One quilt submission per person. (If a second entry is submitted within 24 hours of the original entry, we will accept the more recent entry. For example, if you submit an incomplete quilt, or the wrong quilt from your sketchbook, you can correct it and submit again within 24 hours.)
  • Participants must use EQ8, EQ7, or EQStitch to design their original quilt.
  • Quilt submission and comment must be submitted by 11:59pm ET on last day of month.

Prizes

TWO lucky winners will receive a fat-quarter bundle of Hand Picked: First Light fabrics!!! One winner will be selected by Maywood Studio, and the other winner will be randomly selected! Maywood Studio will ship prizes worldwide! Good luck to all participants, we can’t wait to see your entries! 

How to submit an image of your quilt design from EQ8:

  1. On the Quilt Worktable, click the PRINT & EXPORT tab.
  2. Click Export in the ribbon.
  3. In the palette on the left, click Image.
  4. Type a name for your image, choose PNG or JPG as the file type and click the Save button. (Make sure you know where you’re saving the image on your computer. We recommend saving to your My EQ8 > Images folder.)
  5. We recommend setting the Resolution setting to 150. Quilt and patch lines are optional.
  6. In the comment form below, tell us a little bit about your design. Then click Browse to include the image of your quilt.
  7. Select your quilt, then click Submit Comment.