Contests

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 read and commented on our blog post! We’re so happy we could be part of such an inspirational and fun blog hop, including introducing some of you to EQ8 and how it can help you visualize your quilts! To see more of EQ8 in action, watch the EQ8-demo video! We had 332 people enter to win a copy of EQ8! One person was selected at random, and without further ado, congratulations goes to… PATIENCE B. After reading our post, here’s Patience’s comment, “Wow, this software is so cool. Being able to mock up the different fabrics and colors is so cool! Thank you for sharing!” Congrats again, Patience, now let your design adventure begin!! Seven other names were drawn at random and sent to Villa Rosa Designs to be entered into more giveaways. Check VRD’s page for a list of those winners. To enter the

Hello Villa Rosa Designs followers! You’re here because today is our day to post in the Villa Rosa Blog Hop! Villa Rosa Designs creates “Fast & Fun” quilt patterns featuring pre-cuts like 1/2 yards, fat quarters, 10′′ squares, 5′′ squares, 2 1/2′′ strips, fat eighths, and fat sixths, as well as other fabric cuts, including panels. Tricia Maloney, known as the Orphan Quilter, who formats all of the Villa Rosa Designs, uses EQ8 for each one, and designs her own patterns in EQ8, too! EQ8 Giveaway AND other fabulous prizes! There are wonderful prizes available from the various sponsors for this blog hop, including a set of cards, fabric, patterns, notions, and other goodies! For our part, we’re giving away one EQ8! To be eligible for any of the prizes, please click on the Enter Giveaway button, fill out, and submit the form by Sunday, March 24, 2024. We will

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

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

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

This contest is now closed. Winner announced here. Happy Holidays! 2023 may be almost over, but don’t worry, we still have one more treat in store! December’s Fabric of the Month is Vintage by Sweetwater for Moda. “It’s been fourteen years and over fifty collections since we debuted our first fabric designs with Moda. That’s a lot of fabric! We decided to celebrate by choosing some of our favorites from the past and combining them in a new collection. We had a little help from our followers as we posted some past designs and held a vote on favorites. We couldn’t include everything, but Vintage definitely represents some of our most favorite designs from the past fourteen years. The colors are also classic Sweetwater. We couldn’t be more excited about this collection!” – Sweetwater Team A bundle of these fabrics will be given away to one lucky winner! Submit your EQ design featuring Vintage below…all