Uncategorized

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!

Happy Labor Day! The Electric Quilt Company is closed today. While we’re gone you can enjoy this free sunflower quilt pattern. (Available for EQ7 only.) Perfect for the end of summer. We hope you have a wonderful holiday

There are so many different inspirations for quilting. Creating a keepsake for someone special is probably at the top of the list. Last August, my oldest son was getting married and, as a parent, you always want to do something special as a wedding gift – create a keepsake. Since I had worked for Electric Quilt for over 20 years, wasn’t the obvious gift a wedding quilt?  For an avid quilter, the answer would be an easy yes. For me, well, the answer was not so obvious. Yes, I know how to quilt, but I certainly would not call myself an avid quilter. My inspiration, or should I say, my “feeling of pressure” to make a quilt started in early 2013. I’m in product development here at EQ and was knee-deep in the release of EQStitch in early 2013. All I had time for at that point was to “think”

As you may have heard, Facebook recently implemented a new policy pushing small businesses such as ours to pay in order to have our posts appear on our fans feeds.   If you’d like to continuing seeing our posts, on our Facebook page where you would normally click “Like” there is a drop down menu. Choose “Get Notifications” instead of “Like”  to ensure you keep up to date! Thanks so much for your support these past years, we look forward to sharing more with you in the months and years to come!

Here is a Valentine’s Day bouquet quilt! You can download the EQ7 file here. Here is how I made it: I clicked Libraries > Block Libraries > Search > by Category > I selected “Applique” and “Flowers”. I added the following blocks to my sketchbook. I like “Rose in Bloom” but I wanted to use it without the leaves. So, I clicked Worktable > Work on Block > View Sketchbook > click on Rose in Bloom > Edit. Make sure you are on the applique tab. Use the Pick tool to select the leaves and then hit the delete key on your keyboard. Select the whole rose and copy. Click Block > New Block > PatchDraw Motif > Paste > Add to Sketchbook Besides deleting leaves, I did the same steps with the pink Zinnia block. The red carnation is already a motif so I didn’t edit that one. Then