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April’s Fabric of the Month is Sea Breeze by Deborah Edwards and Melanie Samra for Northcott! Created by design duo Deborah Edwards and Melanie Samra in their classic alcohol ink style, Sea Breeze takes you away to another world where tranquility ensues in sunshine, warm sands, blue skies, and a gentle breeze. A bundle of these fabrics will be given away to two lucky winners! Submit your EQ design featuring Sea Breeze below…all instructions and contest details are in this post. Good luck!   Note: The Sea Breeze 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 images below to your computer here. After saving and extracting the images to your computer, import them into EQ. We have a sample lesson for doing this in EQ8 here.  To enter In order to enter for the giveaway you

Thank you to everyone who participated in last month’s design challenge! So many creative designs were shared, and we loved hearing how everyone expresses their voice! View all the beautiful quilts submitted here. Winners Two winners were selected by collection designer Scott Flanagan! Congratulations to…. Winner 1: Jodie Solorio “It grabbed me right away and love how it looks like a mosaic floor.” – Scott Flanagan Winner 2: Jenny Hull “I love samplers and flying geese and this makes a striking looking quilt!” – Scott Flanagan Honorable Mentions Don’t forget to look at all the amazing submissions to this challenge. Here are a few honorable mentions! More Chances to Win Ebony Suite by Barbara Brackman for Moda is March’s Fabric of the Month! Download the collection and enter in our design challenge for another chance to win some fabric!

This contest is now closed. The winner is announced here! Who’s ready to design?! March’s Fabric of the Month is Ebony Suite by Barbara Brackman for Moda! Ebony Suite revisits William Morris’s iconic designs with a nod to London’s famous mists and foggy streets. Classic prints are colored in elegant undertones from ebony black to champagne ivory. The collection includes 19th-century London’s perennial favorites, the pimpernel primrose and willow boughs, rendered in a shady filigree. Ebony Suite’s Strawberry Thief print is recreated in the coloring of London’s nightingale thrush, Morris’s fruit garden raider. Create elegant patchwork with these updated and timeless neutrals! A bundle of these fabrics will be given away to one lucky winner! Submit your EQ design featuring Ebony Suite 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

Thank you to everyone who participated in last month’s design challenge! Check out all the wonderful quilt designs we received here! Winners Three winners were selected, one by the QT Fabrics team and the other two were chosen randomly. Congratulations to…. Winner 1 (QT Fabrics’ Pick): Jeanne A Gardner Winner 2 (Random Pick): Janice Berg Winner 3 (Random Pick): Pamela Haley A Note from QT Fabrics “There were so many wonderful, creative designs to consider, choosing one winner was not easy. We looked for a balanced, distinctive design that made good use of the fabrics in the Cotton Tails group. The design by Jeanne A. Gardner fit the bill with an on-point set that focuses attention on the printed rabbit blocks. The background print changes from top to bottom of the quilt add extra interest without detracting from the blocks. Well done, Jeanne! Thank you to all who participated.” – QT Fabrics team Honorable

This contest is now closed. Winners are announced here! Welcome back to another EQ Design Challenge! February’s Fabric of the Month is Quilting is My Voice by Scott Flanagan for Northcott! This collection has special meaning for designer Scott Flanagan, who was diagnosed with a permanent vocal cord disorder in 2017. Since then, quilting has literally become his voice as he gains national notoriety in the quilting community and uses this platform as a spokesperson for Dysphonia International to help raise awareness of the disorder and to raise funds for research. As quilters, our projects often express who we are. How has quilting become your voice? A bundle of these fabrics will be given away to two lucky winners! Submit your EQ design featuring Quilting is My Voice 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

Thanks to everyone who participated in last month’s design challenge! Despite the busyness of the holiday season, you all were able to share such stunning quilts! Check out the submissions we received here. Winner One winner was randomly selected. Congratulations to…. Winner: Carolyn Albright Honorable Mentions Don’t forget to look at all the amazing submissions to this challenge. Here are a few honorable mentions! More Chances to Win Cotton Tails from QT Fabrics is January’s Fabric of the Month! Download the collection and enter in our design challenge for another chance to win some fabric!