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Electric Quilt and Quilts of Valor – Rachelle C. and TeriAnn H.

Posted 06-04-2023 by | Posted in: Electric Quilt & Quilts of Valor®  

In November we announced that we’ve teamed up with the Quilts of Valor Foundation® (QOVF) for a special 8-month collaboration! Oh, how time flies when such special quilts are being highlighted, but you’ve still got 1 month to join this wonderful event! We’re requesting both an image of your EQ-software-QOV design and a picture of the accompanying finished Quilt of Valor®. For inspiration, be sure to view previous posts in this heartwarming series!

Rachelle C.

Rachelle Craig, of Rachelle Handmade, is a talented EQ designer and she has used those skills to create some striking QOV! Her design process is “very experimental and she usually tries many versions of a block before playing with the color palette” which EQ allows her to do easily. When Rachelle does finally play with colors, auditioning different patriotic colorways is also quick and fun using EQ software. Being involved in these projects and knowing that her designs may inspire someone to make a quilt for a veteran is an honor for her!

Rachelle’s “Patriotic Pinwheels” quilt can be seen in the pages of the April/May 2023 issue of Quick + Easy Quilts. She made this dynamic quilt with her Mom’s long-time partner in mind, David D., who served in Vietnam. Rachelle often takes traditional blocks and modifies them until a new block is born, which is the case in this quilt. She enjoys seeing the secondary designs created when combining blocks, like the “eye-catching movement in this piece.”

EQ design and finished “Patriotic Pinwheels” quilt

Echoes of Valor” uses the traditional Double Monkey Wrench block and can be seen in the February/March 2023 issue of Quick + Easy Quilts. The original arrangement of these 18″ blocks pack a bold pop of flag-inspired colors! Leaving the surrounding blocks with blue and white create a firework-like effect: the “oohs and ahhs” can almost be heard!

EQ design and finished “Echoes of Valor” quilt

The regal “Sparkle Stripes” quilt can be seen in the December 2022/January 2023 issue of Quick + Easy Quilts. This quilt was not made for a particular veteran, but instead, Rachelle wanted to test her ability to sew “partial seams.” She considers this design to be a “beginner-friendly partial seam block.” And, don’t let the applique star scare you because you can easily incorporate applique patches in EQ.

EQ design and finished “Sparkle Stripes” quilt

TeriAnn H.

Like many others, the brilliant TeriAnn Harms, of TeriAnn Quilts, makes QOV “in honor of all service members, especially her late grandfathers who both served in WW2.” You can see TeriAnn’s noble “Courage in the Light” quilt in the July/August 2022 issue of Love of Quilting magazine. The big star and diamond designs gave her the perfect space to showcase patriotic prints. Designing it in EQ let TeriAnn first use solid colors before she replaced them with the splendid prints!

EQ designs and finished “Courage in the Light” quilt

Prizes and Submissions

You could win your own pack of patriotic fabrics and other great prizes by submitting your EQ-QOV design images and a picture of the finished quilt. You can submit as many different quilts as you want, as long as they meet the requirements. Remember, at the end of this event, all submissions are eligible to win 1 of 3 amazing prize packs, including:

  • a bundle of Northcott’s Stars and Stripes fabric
  • an American Express gift card
  • a copy of the recently released QOV book, All-Star Quilts of Valor (written about in this post!!)

(See the Rules and Prizes sections in the first post.)

Special Offer

As mentioned, there is still 1 month to join in this special project. If you don’t have EQ8, you can save 25% by applying code VALOR25 to your order (expires July 4, 2023).

Or, if you’re more comfortable simply viewing, enjoying, and commenting on any of the patriotic quilts in the posts, please do so!

Now, please show us your designs and quilts!

How to submit an image of your quilt design from EQ and the photo of your sewn QOV:

  1. On the EQ 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. Click Browse by the “Upload an Image of your EQ Design” box to upload the image.
  7. Take a picture of your sewn QOV and save it to your computer. (Again, make sure you know where you’re saving the picture on your computer.)
  8. Click Browse by the “Upload a Photo of the Finished Quilt” box to upload the photo.
  9. Enter why you made the quilt in the Comments field.
  10. Click Submit.

Electric Quilt and Quilts of Valor – Kimberly E., Wendy S., and QOV Design Tips

Posted 05-04-2023 by | Posted in: Electric Quilt & Quilts of Valor®  

In November we announced that we’ve teamed up with the Quilts of Valor Foundation® (QOVF) for a special 8-month collaboration! We’re requesting both an image of your EQ-software-QOV design and a picture of the accompanying finished Quilt of Valor®. Scroll down below to read more details about this heartwarming event! Kimberly E. Last month we featured 4 of the amazing designers who are in the All-Star Quilts of Valor book. This month, one of the designers we’re highlighting is Kimberly Einmo, who not only has a beautiful quilt in the book, but also wrote the Foreward! She sums up this incredible organization perfectly by saying, “I can think of no greater way to honor these modern-day heroes who have faithfully served our country than with the gift of a Quilt of Valor to show them their service was – and is – appreciated by a grateful nation and will be remembered in a tangible way.” We couldn’t agree

Electric Quilt and Quilts of Valor – All-Star Book Contributors

Posted 04-04-2023 by | Posted in: Electric Quilt & Quilts of Valor®  

In November we announced that we’ve teamed up with the Quilts of Valor Foundation® (QOVF) for a special 8-month collaboration! We’re requesting both an image of your EQ-software-QOV design and a picture of the accompanying finished Quilt of Valor®. Scroll down below to read more details about this heartwarming event! In this post, the focus is going to be on some of the EQ users who have their designs in the All-Star Quilts of Valor book (see Prizes below for how to win your own copy of this beautiful book)! Ann Parsons Holte Ann, of Ann Holte quilting, not only has a quilt in the book, but is also one of the four Contributing Authors! Ann says that “she couldn’t do what she does without EQ8″ and “EQ8 is such an important tool for her to write her own patterns.” True to her word, she used EQ8 to help write patterns for her and other quilts in the

Electric Quilt and Quilts of Valor – Michele M-W.

Posted 03-04-2023 by | Posted in: Electric Quilt & Quilts of Valor®  

In November we announced that we’ve teamed up with the Quilts of Valor Foundation® (QOVF) for a special 8-month collaboration! We’re requesting both an image of your EQ-software-QOV design and a picture of the accompanying finished Quilt of Valor®. Scroll down below to read more details about this fantastic event! Michele McCusker-Whiting A few days after we announced this amazing collaboration, we received several spectacular submissions from Michele McCusker-Whiting! Reaching out to her to check if she’d like to be the focus of a future blog post, she wasn’t sure if she was “worthy.” Indeed, she is worthy, as are all those who make quilts for this caring organization! Thankfully, she agreed to be the featured designer and we’re so happy to introduce and talk about Michele! The seeds of Michele’s story start when she was very young, and her mother taught her to sew. Her interest first turned to quilts when her mother-in-law, EQ-user Juanita Whiting

Electric Quilt and Quilts of Valor – Robin H.

Posted 02-04-2023 by | Posted in: Electric Quilt & Quilts of Valor®  

In November we announced that we’ve teamed up with the Quilts of Valor Foundation® (QOVF) for a special 8-month collaboration! We’re requesting both an image of your EQ-software-QOV design and a picture of the accompanying finished Quilt of Valor®. Scroll down below to read more details about this fabulous event! Robin Harris On this QOV National Sew Day, how special to be highlighting another designer (who I’m sure is working on a QOV as you read this)! While Robin Harris is the featured quilter, she gives equal credit to her Stars & Stripes QOV group in Florida (group #75703)! The group gets together to work on and award over 50 QOV every year! As Robin says, the group’s principle is “many hands make light work!” Robin has been quilting since the late 1980s, and after moving from New York to Florida with her husband in 2015, has been a member of the Stars & Stripes group

Blog Hop with Villa Rosa Designs – Winner Announced

Posted 01-27-2023 by | Posted in: Congratulations  

Thank you to everyone who read and commented on our blog post! We’re thrilled that our different versions and colorways of the 5 beautiful Villa Rosa Designs were able to illustrate a few of the simple and fun tools in EQ8! To see more, watch the EQ8-demo video! Winner One winner of EQ8 was selected at random. Congratulations to… JOY PAULL Here’s Joy’s comment: Oh my, no graph paper, no calculations in Excel, no horrible lines crossed out because I can never find a pencil and made a mistake drawing out an idea in pen. I would LOVE to win EQ8. Special Offer For those of you who didn’t win, you can use the promo code VRD25 through January 31, 2023 to save 25% on your order on our site. When you’ve added everything to the Cart, click on the Apply Promo Code button, enter the code, and click the button

Electric Quilt and Quilts of Valor – Gina G.

Posted 01-04-2023 by | Posted in: Electric Quilt & Quilts of Valor®  

Two months ago we announced that we’ve teamed up with the Quilts of Valor Foundation® (QOVF) for a special 8-month collaboration! We’re requesting both an image of your EQ-software-QOV design and a photo of the accompanying finished Quilt of Valor®. Scroll down below to read more details about this fabulous event! Gina Gempesaw Reaching out to Gina, of Gem Hill Quilts, she was very excited to read about the venture between EQ and QOV! Like many of you, Gina’s “QOV quilts are inspired by family and friends who have served.” She is particularly inspired by her niece’s husband who serves in the military. Gina’s “Free As a Bird” quilt was originally seen in the March/April 2022 issue of Love of Quilting magazine. Gina used a variation of the 54-40 or Fight block. Knowing that the phrase “54-40 or fight” was used as a slogan in 1844 to rally support by then Presidential-candidate James Polk, it gives Gina