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 like panels. Tricia Maloney, who formats all of the Villa Rosa Designs, uses EQ8 for each one, and designs her own patterns in EQ8, too! EQ8 Giveaway! This giveaway is now closed. See the winner! As part of this amazing Blog Hop, we’re giving away one EQ8! Please leave a comment below letting us know why you want your own EQ8 to be eligible for the giveaway. We will select one winner at random from all of the submissions on January 27 and announce it the same day. Special Offer For those of you who don’t win, or already have EQ8 and want other fabulous
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Blog hop with Villa Rosa Designs!
Posted 01-24-2023 by Electric Quilt | Posted in: Contests EQ Designers EQ Software Tips Just Because More for EQers Related Blogs
See Christa Watson’s new book….and enter to win EQ7!
Posted 08-23-2017 by Heidi | Posted in: Contests EQ Designers From Our Users Related Blogs
Christa Watson of ChristaQuilts.com is releasing a new book! Piece and Quilt with Precuts has some gorgeous quilts! Lots of fun and easy machine methods in quilts made with precuts. It includes 11 pieced patterns and 18 machine quilting designs, all aimed towards helping you have start-to-finish success! Read more about her Piece and Quilt with Precuts on Christa’s blog! Christa also has a Blog Hop going on! She’s linking to other creative bloggers and their versions of her quilts. It’s so fun to see all the different possibilities! She is also giving away PRIZES! Be sure to check it out! (and keep reading for more info on our giveaway!) Christa has two other books: Machine Quilting with Style and The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting which she co-wrote with Angela Walters. Christa used EQ7 to design the quilts in all of her books! Here are some examples from Piece
Q & A with Kelly Mueller & GIVEAWAY!
Posted 01-27-2016 by Heidi | Posted in: Contests Downloads From Our Users Q&A Related Blogs
Contest is now closed. Doreen Hendrickson is our winner! Kelly Mueller is the owner and designer behind The Wooden Bear! The Wooden Bear sells adorable patterns, kits, and other sewing related products. I asked Kelly to tell us a little bit about herself and her experience and success with EQ Printable Inkjet Fabrics. Read our Q&A below: EQ: First of all, let’s hear a little about you! Kelly: I grew up in Independence, Missouri, just outside of Kansas City. I attended college and received my bachelor’s degree in Accounting. I went for the accounting degree because it fits me- I’m a bit of an organized analyzer- but also because I grew up crafting. I thought if I could find a craft that I thoroughly enjoyed, and could be a viable business, I would have what I needed to begin. I also met my husband, Brian, in college. He makes life
Free webinar with Al Navas and Sara Seuberling!
Posted 01-21-2016 by Heidi | Posted in: EQ Software Tips From Our Users More for EQers Related Blogs
On Sunday, January 24th at 3pm ET Al Navas will be talking to EQ’s own Sara Seuberling. They’ll be taking questions, talking about EQ’s 25th celebration, doing a mini tutorial, and much more! Sign up here! If you’d like to contact Al you can do so here. Al has other great webinars available as well. Check them out! January 31 at 3pm ET – Free Office Hours February 2 at 2 pm ET – EQ7 for Beginners February 3 at 3 pm ET – EQ7 Basics
Week 6 of Marian Pena’s EQ Row-A-Long: Show and Tell!
Posted 10-06-2015 by Heidi | Posted in: Downloads EQ Artists EQ Company News EQ Designers EQ Software Tips Favorite Posts From Our Users Just Because More for EQers Related Blogs Row-A-Long
It’s the last week of Marian Pena’s EQ Row-A-Long! Don’t forget you can download the rows and the EQ7 block library HERE. Also, be sure to check out what people have been making in the Flickr group, and the Facebook group is also great for more info and pictures, too! This week we have Show and Tell! Check out what all these talented quilters have made from these rows! Doris Rice from Quilting Queen Online Jennifer Ofenstein from Sewhooked Reeze Hanson from Morning Glory Designs Loreen Bogdan from School House Quilts Carol Swift from Just Let Me Quilt Carla Henton from Creatin In The Sticks Marlene Baerg Oddie from Kissed Quilts Amy Warner from Sew Incredibly Crazy Nancy Myers from Patchwork Breeze Marian Pena from Seams To Be Sew Darlene Quilshop Gal – and she also has another row available as well as a tutorial on creating rows
Week 5 of Marian Pena’s EQ Row-A-Long! Win an EQ7!
Posted 09-29-2015 by Heidi | Posted in: Contests Downloads EQ Designers EQ Software Tips From Our Users More for EQers Related Blogs Row-A-Long
Week 5 of Marian Pena’s Row-A-Long is here! Be sure to check out what people have been making in the Flickr group, and the Facebook group is also great for more info and pictures. Here’s who is posting today: Amy Warner at Sew Incredibly Crazy Darlene at Quilt Shop Gal Marian Pena at Seams To Be Sew Loreen Bogdan at Miss Loreen’s Schoolhouse Quilts Anneka Kornelis at Stof Genoeg Heidi Kory at the EQ Blog – A Tutorial On Combining Rows Here are the prizes for this week: Therm-o-web – 7 colors of iCraft® Deco Foil™ Transfer Sheets, 1 can of iCraft® Deco Foil™ Fusible Spray Adhesive, 1 bottle of iCraft® Deco Foil™ Liquid Adhesive, 1 pack of iCraft® Deco Foil™ Hot Melt Adhesive Sheets, 1 pack of HeatnBond® Ultra 1 yard pack, 1 pack of HeatnBond® Lite 1 yard pack, and 1 pack of StitchnSew™ Interfacing 1 yard pack Fat Quarter
EQ7 Row-A-Long Tutorial: How to Merge Rows
Posted 09-29-2015 by Heidi | Posted in: Downloads EQ Designers EQ Software Tips Favorite Posts Just Because More for EQers Related Blogs Row-A-Long
It’s our turn to post for Marian Pena’s Row-A-Long! I have written a tutorial on how to combine rows from different EQ7 projects. So, you can have fun mixing all the rows in EQ7! Also, be sure to check out what people have been making in the Flickr group, and the Facebook group is also great for more info and pictures. CHECK OUT HOW TO WIN AN EQ7 (and lots of other great prizes)! Sorry the contests are over. First download the EQ7 Row-A-Long Block Library. Put the “EQ Seasons.BLK” file into your My EQ7 > User folder and access them through your My Library. The block library will only be available until 10/31/15 so please make sure you download it beforehand. Now download all the EQ7 project. Sorry the projects are no longer available. Please check the designer’s website’s for more information on the projects/patterns. I found the easiest way