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We love coming across EQ users in quilting magazines… and we also love seeing EQ Artists in quilting magazines! Recently, we spotted three EQ Artists: When I asked Bea Lee if her “Stars at Night” quilt was designed in EQ7, she replied: “Of course it was!!” She also told me she had originally named it “Ghostbusters” and had gone through several renditions of the quilt before deciding on the final design shown in the August/September 2015 issue of Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine. Here are images of her process in EQ7:       When I asked Nancy Mahoney if she used EQ7 to design her featured quilt, she replied, “I use EQ7 to design all my quilts!” If you’ve seen Nancy Mahoney’s “Boxing Match” quilt in the September/October ’15 issue of Quiltmaker magazine, you’d remember it looking like this: What you probably didn’t know is that Nancy’s original EQ7 design was

Fabrics of the Month: 1 in a Minion by Quilting Treasures Click here to download this collection for your EQ7 now!

Although EQStitch was designed for the beginner level using auto digitizing, it can indeed create some pretty amazing works of art with just the simplest tools. 1.  Launch your EQStitch program 2.  Click on the ‘stitch worktable’ icon at the top of the screen 3.  Click on STITCHING>New Design>Embroidery    4.  On the toolbar at the left side of the screen, click on the little black arrow at the bottom. In the pop up menu box, click on the words ‘add/remove buttons’ Place a check mark in front of all the tools by clicking on them.          Click anywhere on a white space of the screen to close the box  5.  Click on the ‘drawing board options’ box on the object properties bar at the top of the screen. In the drawing board options box under the ‘stitch’ heading, set the embroidery edge stitches to ‘no stitch’

We love to see what our users create with EQ7! EQ user, Sandi Feenstra reached out to us via social media to tell us about a quilt she had just finished. She sent us a photo of her EQ7-designed quilt (pictured left). It measures 60″ x 78″ and is made up of 875 2.5″ squares! I thanked Sandi for reaching out to us and asked her a few questions…  EQ: Thanks so much for posting your EQ7 project on social media! We LOVE seeing EQ users’ creations! What was your inspiration for this quilt? Sandi: I saw a picture of an “Around the World” quilt and knew I wanted one.  This project began when I was lucky enough to discover candy squares of a popular Moda fabric collection reduced 50%. EQ: Tell us a little about yourself and how you got into quilting.  Sandi: My husband retired 3 years ago

[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

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Now Open! Sign Up Now! Take a hands-on EQ class from experienced teachers at Quilt Festival Houston. Online enrollment now open! Here is a list of EQ classes being offered at Quilt Festival 2015. See full descriptions here. (231) – EQ7: LET’S START AT THE VERY BEGINNING…  October 27, 2015: Tuesday all day, 9 – 12 noon; 2 – 5 p.m. Instructor: Mary Ellen Kranz Level: Beginner with little or no working knowledge of EQ7. (236) – BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE INTRODUCTION TO EQSTITCH October 27, 2015: Tuesday all day, 9 – 12 noon; 2 – 5 p.m. Instructor: Yvonne Menear Level: Beginner/Intermediate (325) – EQ7: I WANT TO LEARN MORE… October 28, 2015: Wednesday all day, 9 – 12 noon; 2 – 5 p.m. Instructor: Mary Ellen Kranz Level: Beginner with some experience or instruction in quilt designing in EQ7. (329) – INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED DIGITIZING WITH EQSTITCH October 28, 2015: Wednesday all day, 9