EQ Designers

In late September Al Navas bought EQ7. By the end of the week he was designing his own quilts. In less than a month he was writing his own EQ lesson! We were intrigued and asked him a little about himself, included how he started quilting.     Al said, “This was pure serendipity! My wife Sandy had been working with embroidery designs for several years, using a Husqvarna Viking Designer Diamond machine. I helped her digitize designs using 5D™ Design Creator, a part of the 5D™ Embroidery Extra suite. She also started quilting a few years ago, first using the Desingner Diamond, and also a home sewing machine; she incorporated embroidered blocks in her quilt designs. Meanwhile I kept learning the digitizing process, until I developed a good work flow; I am now confident I can tackle substantial embroidery digitizing projects. A while back Sandy and her sister pooled money and bought

If you have EQ7, EQ6 or Quilt Design Wizard why aren’t you checking out our free monthly projects? You are missing out! In September I posted Prismatic Plants. Jenny said she was going to make it. And she did! It turned out great! You can read more about Jenny making the quilt on her blog, Jenny Makes Stuff. This is just one of over 100 free projects available. What are you waiting for? Check them out

The summer issue of Modern Quilts Unlimited is now available! It’s chocked full of Electric Quilt goodies, designers and information! Patio by Jennifer Schifano Thomas of Curlicue Creations is included. The quilt is so cute! She designed it in EQ7. Jennifer says, “My design process usually starts the old fashioned way, with pencil and paper. After that, I take it to the EQ design program and that’s where my ideas really bloom! Patio started out as just some simple blocks with yellow rectangles. It was ALL yellow in the beginning. I changed the block design, until I was happy with that (I especially like the look this quilt has where the corners of the blocks come together). Then I got to do my favorite part, play with the color! As a child I always wanted to have “all the colors”. All the crayons, all the magic markers, all the paint,

Kimmy Brunner at afabricplayground.blogspot.com has been chosen to make raffle quilt for the International Quilt Festival in Houston. Kimmy says her first thought was “Oh my gosh, I have got to make this quilt a showstopper! and the first tool I turned to was EQ7.  The software has allowed me to draft a difficult and elaborate pattern that I think will turn out very well indeed. Thank you so much for making this tool available to me!” You can read more about her quilt making here and here and watch her blog for more updates, too! Kimmie continues on her blog, “I have found [EQ7] to be utterly invaluable when creating quilts that are out of the ordinary. I’m not exactly what you might call a math whiz and, unfortunately, a lot of math is required when drafting funky quilt patterns. Using this software frees me from the math part and

Our website has so much to offer, sometimes it’s easy to overlook stuff. Have you seen all of our FREE user’s projects? All of these projects are made our users. We have some from Christa Quilts, Jan T Urquhart Baillie, Terri Nice, Claire Haillot, Regina Grewe, Sarah Vedeler, Simonetta Marini, Danka Kruszewska, Angela Glaze, Sindy Rodenmayer, Carol Honderich, Jo Moury, Angie Padilla, BusyBeePatterns, Nancy Mahoney, Evelyn Townsend, Erin McMorris, Inklingo, Cath Picaut, Andrea Bishop, Linda Poole, Georgia McCroy, CabinQuilter (and me)! Click here to check out all the projects. One of the projects included is this cute little quilt by Marian Pena. Let’s hope that even if winter comes in like a lion, it leaves like a lamb

As you may remember, SewCalGal recently hosted a Blog Hop kicking off her Year of Red and White Quilt Challenges. As part of the Blog Hop Connie Kresin posted such a cute Valentine’s Day project!  We just wanted to share it with you! There is a tutorial and you can download the EQ7 project too!

  Look at this adorable turkey! Sindy Rodenmayer sent him to us for you to enjoy! You can check out more of her patterns on MyEQBoutique.com and even more on her website fatcatpatterns.com. Download available (for EQ7 only) here.