This contest is now closed. Winners announced here!

Happy New Year! Let’s celebrate 2024 with some free fabric! January’s Fabric of the Month is Cotton Tails by Morris Creative Group for QT Fabrics!

Featuring whimsical bunnies intricately illustrated in soft delicate colors, Cotton Tails by the Morris Creative Group are fabrics that will capture your imagination! Equally appropriate for sweetly sophisticated juvenile projects or home dec, Cotton Tails is sure to inspire you! Anchored by two patch panels, this robust 14-piece group also includes coordinating tossed, all over and low volume prints. Cotton Tails is available at your local independent quilt shop.

A bundle of these fabrics will be given away to three lucky winners! Submit your EQ design featuring Cotton Tails below…all instructions and contest details are in this post. Good luck!

To enter

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: Cotton Tails for QT Fabrics.

Note: The Cotton Tails collection contains two panels (not included in the download). It is NOT required that you use the panels in your design, but if you’d like to, you can save the panel image below to your computer (right-click on the image and choose Save Image As – remember where you save it!). After saving the image to your computer, import it into EQ. We have a sample lesson for doing this in EQ8 here. 

43″ x 36″ panel

43″ x 36″ panel

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.
  • Your quilt design and your comment on someone else’s quilt must be submitted by 11:59pm ET on last day of month.
  • By submitting your quilt design to this challenge, you also grant the Electric Quilt Company and QT Fabrics permission to share your image on social media.

Prize

Three lucky winners will receive a bundle of the Cotton Tails fabrics (excludes panels)! One winner will be chosen by the QT Fabrics design team and the other two winners will be chosen randomly. Good luck to all participants, we can’t wait to see your entries!

Note: Entries are welcomed from all. Prize will only be shipped to U.S. and Canada.

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.

We often get requests for the EQ project files or patterns submitted to these design challenges. If you are open to sharing/selling your design, include your email address or website link in your comment so others can contact you!

Note: Replying to someone’s comment below does not alert them in any way so they’d have to know to come back to this blog post to look at other comments. Since not everyone does that, we hope some EQ users will provide their contact information if they are open to sharing/selling their designs. We will not share anyone’s information.

Need inspiration?

Check out this month’s Design & Discover and Block Spotlight!