We are starting a new series called, New to EQ. Quilters who have never used EQ before will be blogging about their first experiences. The posts are not edited by The Electric Quilt in any way and we don’t know what they are going to post until it’s already been posted. We HAVE told them to contact techsupport@electricquilt.com if they have any issues…but we tell all of our users that. We are hoping that people see that you shouldn’t be intimidated by EQ7! The first blogger who we are featuring is Sarah Sharp of nohatsinthehouse.com. She is a brand new EQ user. You can read about her first few clicks in EQ7. Her is a bit of what she has to say, “I think my heart skipped a beat the first time I whipped up a layout for my ‘shott{ing} stars design. Not only is it super easy, but it also
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New to EQ! Sarah Sharp of NoHatsInTheHouse.com
Posted 11-14-2013 by Heidi | Posted in: EQ Designers New to EQ
Anne’s Creative Threads’ Beautiful EQ7 Quilt
Posted 09-25-2013 by Heidi | Posted in: EQ Designers Related Blogs
Quiltmaker is full of EQ users!
Posted 09-23-2013 by Heidi | Posted in: EQ Company News EQ Designers EQ News and Press
We were happy to see that Jo Moury‘s EQ7 quilt was on the cover of the September/October issue of Quiltmaker. Then we found out that Denise Russart’s EQ7 quilt was also featured. We started to wonder…How many of the quilts in this issue of Quiltmaker we designed in EQ? So we started doing some research. And, we found out that the vast majority of them ARE EQ7 quilts! When we asked the designers about EQ here is a little bit of what they had to say… Konda Luckau says, “I do all my designing in EQ. I love it!” You can check out her blog and her entry about Knit & Purl. Carolyn Beam is the Creative Editor for Quiltmaker. She says, “We do work with several different EQ users in quilts we publish in Quiltmaker…I also use EQ when I design my quilts and I did use it in
Blog Hop with Bea Lee!
Posted 04-26-2013 by Heidi | Posted in: Contests Downloads EQ Designers EQ Software Tips Heidi Finds Related Blogs
Bea Lee is hosting a Blog Hop! I drew some blocks to be included in the hop. Download here. The theme is Appliqued Animals and she also has three sub-themes which are, Summer Animals, Critters and Bugs, and Summer garden “stuff”. Lots of other EQ users are also participating in the hop. Seamstobesew Freemotionbytheriver Sewincrediblycrazy Kissedquilts Funthreads Patchworkbreeze Janesquilting SewCalGal Beaquilter Be sure to check out their blogs and collect the free blocks! You could also win some EQ software! (See the above blogs for details.) Another aspect of the blog hop is trying to learn tips and techniques from other users. So, here is how I drew my blocks. First the shiba inu (Aevi) block…I searched the internet for a picture of a shiba inu. I decided on this one. Open EQ7. Click Block > New Block > PatchDraw Motif. Click the Tracing Image tab at
This and That Quilt Free PDF Instructions from TheQuilterMag.com
Posted 09-06-2012 by Sarah | Posted in: EQ Designers Look What I Did More for EQers