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Marian Pena is hosting a Row-A-Long! 20 great quilt designers are creating quilt rows and, not only will the designers provide a pattern for you, but they will also be featuring Electric Quilt tutorials! And, there are TONS of great prizes including an EQ7!  (See a list of all the prizes here.) Today is the first day!  (See the whole schedule here.)     Here’s who is posting today! Marlene Oddie at Kissed Quilts – Spring Lynn Zydon Provencher at Thimblemouse & Spouse – Winter Dorice Cotten Rice at The Quilting Queen Online – Summer Janeen van Niekerk at Quilt Art Designs – Fall Bea Lee at Be A Quilter – Filler Row Anneka Kornelis at Stof Genoeg – Filler Row Here are the prizes that start today! Northcott Fabrics: 6-8 yards of fabric in 1 yard lengths Fat Quarter Shop:  $25.00 gift certificate from each blog You Can Quilt Book:

So we asked our Charleston block-challenge participants to design a quilt using their original block… and boy did they come up with some fantastic designs!! As usual, EQ7 users make it so difficult for us to choose a winner. We are so impressed with their talents! The winning quilt design* belongs to….. Adrienne Quinlan! Congratulations! Adrienne’s quilt design: Honorable Mentions: Erika Martha Peterman Kelly Grace To see all the quilt entries, view the original challenge post here. To see all the block entries, click here. Thanks so much to all who participated, we hope to see future entries from all of you! Congratulations to our winner and honorable mentions. Stay tuned to the blog for future challenges. Don’t want to miss a thing? Sign up for EQ newsletters! *The staff at EQ, along with Timeless Treasures chose the winner based on creativity, effectiveness of fabric use and adherence to rules.

[This quilt challenge is closed. See who won here!] We are so impressed with all the fantastic blocks submitted! As always, you make it so hard to select just one. The winning block for the Charleston challenge belongs to: Carole Carter! Congratulations Carole! Carole’s block: Honorable Mentions: Ria Klopper Marque McKay Adrienne Quinlan Sheri Lesh Thanks so much to all who participated. To see all the other blocks submitted, view the original challenge post. HEY EQ7 USERS: The challenge isn’t over! We’re so impressed with the blocks submitted that we’d love to see what you can do with them! Design a quilt using your block and submit it by Monday, August 3rd at 9am EDT. We’ll pick one more winner based on your block in a quilt design. Rules: You must use the block you submitted to the original challenge exactly how it appears there. (You may flip, rotate and

[This challenge has ended. See who won here.] This block design challenge is open to everyone! All you have to do is color a block using fabrics from Timeless Treasure’s new Charleston collection by Revive and submit it by Monday, July 27th! No sewing required! No software required! Challenge Rules 1.  Choose a block (or design your own) and color it with Charleston fabric(s). You may do this using any method you’d like: draw and color it on graph paper, design it using software, choose a block from EQ7, etc. You may use as many Charleston fabrics as you’d like and may also add 1 solid color. (A minimum of 1 Charleston fabric is required. You may not use fabric from any other collection. Winning block is not chosen by quantity of fabrics used.) 2.  Submit an image/photo of your block using the Link Up feature at the bottom of

First, we’d like to thank all the participants in our Spring Cleaning Scrap Challenge! We were overwhelmed with all the talent! For this reason, we decided to give away not one, not two, but THREE prizes! Click here to see all the entries and challenge details. Winning Mini Scrap Quilts: Jerriann Massey Design: Scrappy Louisa Robertson Design: Scrappier Karyn Ashley-Smith Design: Scrappiest Honorable Mentions: Gail Taylor Design: Scrappiest Nancy Rowland Design: Scrappiest Jill Kofton Design: Scrappier Anne Maundrell Design: Scrappy Thanks again to all the participants! Stayed tuned to the blog and sign up for our newsletters to find out about future challenges. Winners: Please look for an email from me so we can get your prizes to you!

Last fall we ran a 3-month challenge featuring Island Batik’s “Quilted in Honor” fabric line. Participants were required to design a quilt using those fabrics. One of the three winners was Jo Moury for her combination (pieced and appliqué) design. Recently, Jo sent us a photo of her finished quilt – check out how well she followed her EQ7 design! Great job Jo . Want more? See the other 2 winning designs by Susan Polan and Darlene Gerber & all entries. Free projects? Get Jo’s EQ7 project file as well as 32 other Quilted in Honor quilts! Free fabrics? Download all the Quilted in Honor fabrics for your EQ7!

[Challenge Closed] CLICK HERE to see the winners! It’s spring, and you know what that means… cleaning! We’ve come up with a fun and easy way to help you use up those old scrap fabrics laying around: a sewing challenge using ONLY your scrap fabrics! You have 1 month! It’s very simple; here are the steps:  Choose a design from the EQ quilts below.  Download and open it in your EQ7.  Color it to match your scrap fabric stash.  Sew your quilt to match the layout.  Submit a photo of the sewn quilt.  Leave a comment to state which quilt design you chose. Rules: You must follow the design exactly. (Do not make changes or add borders to the design.) You must use ONLY scrap fabrics. (We know we can’t prove this, but we trust that we can rely on our users to comply. ) Finished quilt photos must be