We love coming across EQ users in quilting magazines… and we also love seeing EQ Artists in quilting magazines! Recently, we spotted three EQ Artists:
When I asked Bea Lee if her “Stars at Night” quilt was designed in EQ7, she replied: “Of course it was!!” She also told me she had originally named it “Ghostbusters” and had gone through several renditions of the quilt before deciding on the final design shown in the August/September 2015 issue of Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine. Here are images of her process in EQ7:
When I asked Nancy Mahoney if she used EQ7 to design her featured quilt, she replied, “I use EQ7 to design all my quilts!” If you’ve seen Nancy Mahoney’s “Boxing Match” quilt in the September/October ’15 issue of Quiltmaker magazine, you’d remember it looking like this:
What you probably didn’t know is that Nancy’s original EQ7 design was called “Floating Boxes” and was in these colors:
What do you think Toby Lischko said when I asked her if she used EQ7 for her featured quilt? Much to my delight, she said “Of course my quilt was design in EQ7!” If you’ve seen Toby Lischko’s “Picklemints” quilt (also in the September/October ’15 issue of Quiltmaker magazine), you’d probably remember it like this:
Here’s an image of her original EQ7 design that she called “Mojito Quilt”:
A special thanks to Bea Lee, Nancy Mahoney and Toby Lischko for helping me put together this post. To see a full list of our EQ Artists, click here. Follow their blogs, social media and websites for creative inspiration and more EQ7 designs!
08-07-2015
4:20 pm
Thanks for showing this
08-09-2015
11:14 am
I have often wondered why these magazines don’t offer EQ7 files in their digital magazines. I would love to be able to take a quilt pattern from a magazine and make some adjustments in EQ7. As it stands now, I have to rebuild the pattern from scratch – what a waste of time! Can you get the magazines on board?
Thanks,
Elana, a happy EQ7 user.
08-09-2015
5:12 pm
Interesting concept! I have no idea how to do that. The magazines want your dollars to go to them to get the pattern. If it was supplied to EQ then they would loose out. I personally like to recreate the patterns for myself so I can put my own personal touch on them. I don’t like repeating exactly what someone else has all ready done. But I do appreciate your idea!
08-10-2015
9:54 am
I use EQ7 for all of my projects in UK magazines too – the magazines like it because I can give them accurate drawings that they don’t need to then recreate in Illustrator, I just export the designs and they put them right in