This contest is now closed. Winner is announced here! It’s time for another EQ Design Challenge! July’s Fabric of the Month is Blooming Color by Wolff Paper for Benartex.

Nature in modern style – that is Blooming Color! The sunny floral prints come in a wide range of scales, and the snazzy coordinates have a fresh retro vibe. The shades of pink, lime and aqua are accented with pops of bright red, green and turquoise to add drama to this fabric collection. The great variety of the line leads to unlimited design possibilities and a beautiful way to surround yourself with warmth and delight all year long.

A bundle of these fabrics will be given away to one lucky winner! Submit your EQ design featuring Blooming Color 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: Blooming Color for Benartex.

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 Benartex permission to share your image on social media.

Prize

One lucky winner will receive a fat quarter bundle of the Blooming Color fabrics! The Benartex team will choose the winner! Good luck to all participants, we can’t wait to see your entries!

Note: Entries are welcomed from all. The 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 the latest Design & Discover and Block Spotlight!