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[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

You see our faces on our blog posts, but do you really know the EQ Bloggers? Get to know us! Each of us have just created our own pages on Facebook. Follow us to see what we’re doing at EQ – and what we’re doing when we’re not at EQ! We’ll be your source for behind-the-scenes EQ happenings as well as a peek inside our personal lives! Between Sara, Jenny, Heidi and myself, we’ll keep you up to date on everything you’ll want to know – and lots of fun stuff too Click on each image to visit our page and remember to “Like” each one! You might see us stirring up some conversation on the Electric Quilt Facebook page so don’t be afraid to join on in – we want to hear from you! Also, if you’re ever working in EQ7, we’d love to see your screen! Post pics

The Electric Quilt Company is a pretty small group and many of us crossover in our job duties. Whenever we would pass around a greeting card for all the employees to sign, Jan would always sign the card as “Jan-In Shipping” as if we could possibly be confused by any other “Jan.” Jan is a chatterbox of energy in our office who keeps us all in stitches (no pun intended) with her quick-witted one-liners or her Pig Latin conversations with Heidi. If you’ve ever called the “sales” line at Electric Quilt, you may have spoken with Jan. Jan lives just around the block from me and her daughters and my sons attended the same elementary school, junior high and high school. We attended school events together, chaperoned proms and so on for years. I think you’re a lucky person if you have friends at work who are also friends outside

As part of SewCalGal’s Holiday Blog Blitz, we’ve chosen a couple EQ staffer’s family recipes to share. EQ Christine’s Great Aunt Freda, of a tiny little town in northern Ohio, created “Black-Eyed Susans.” She entered them into the Pillsbury 9th Grand National Bake-Off in 1957 and won the Senior Grand National Award! Below, is Freda Smith’s original recipe from the 9th Grand National Cook Book for what Pillsbury now calls “Peanut Blossoms.” Enjoy! Scroll down for another yummy holiday favorite: Peanut Brittle! EQ Linda’s mother, from another small town in northern Ohio was featured in a local newspaper for her Peanut Brittle Recipe in 2010. Here’s her photo and recipe taken from the Bowling Green Sentinel Tribune. To get more recipes, visit these participating blogs: Bea Lee (Beaquilter) SewCalGal Stitch This (Martingale) Leah Day – The Free Motion Quilting  Project Wendy Sheppard  (Ivory Spring) Marjorie Busby (Blue Feather Quilt Studio)

A note from Kimberly: “I love to design quilts using two simple blocks to create a complex-looking, dynamic layout when they are set side by side. And what could be easier to stitch than large half-square triangles and modified Friendship Star blocks? I also love the clever secondary pattern which is a result of putting the Friendship Star blocks together. It looks as though the blocks are interwoven into a fun, holiday swizzle design beautifully framed by large, sparkly star points! Of course this quilt will look great in any non-holiday fabric combination as well, but since I have a bundle of these lovely Moda prints in my stash from last year, what better way to see how beautiful they’d look made up into this festive quilt? Merry Christmas from me to YOU!” – Kimberly Einmo Download “Sugarplum Swizzles” Catch up with Kimberly >>

We’ve collected and posted the EQ7 projects that were submitted to the Quilted in Honor design challenge. Download them all for FREE! Get the three winning designs and so many more! Thanks again to all of the participants! View and download the Quilted in Honor quilts here!