Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

EQ Academy enrollment opens next week! Want a discount on classes? Become an EQ Member! We recently announced EQ Memberships—a subscription program for free Stash downloads, exclusive discounts, and more! Hundreds of EQ users have joined and they’re saving so much on products and classes! Join them and start enjoying these perks: EQ Academy Class Discount! EQ Members save 5% on EQ Academy enrollment! EQ Academy is our annual EQ8 workshop! We’ve got classes for beginners and intermediate users. Come for one day or stay all three—you’ll learn so much and have a blast! Enrollment opens on Tuesday, January 14 at 10:00am ET. Learn more about EQ Academy >  If you’re planning to take classes all three days, the EQ Membership nearly pays for itself in savings! Become an EQ Member now! We hope to see you in March! View Classes > Online Class Discount! Prefer to learn from home, no

Welcome to the first EQ8 Block Spotlight post of 2025! Each month we highlight a block from the EQ8 Block Library with a few design ideas. Then we want you to show us what you can do with the block. If you’re a brand new EQ8 user, I hope you’ll join in the fun! This monthly series is great motivation to dig into the software and practice your new EQ8 skills. And if you’ve been using EQ8 for a while, I hope these posts will inspire you to try something new! Don’t forget to comment on other quilter’s designs too. Let’s build each other up! This month’s block: Variable Star Frame Where to find it: 02 Contemporary Pieced > Frames Design ideas to spark your creativity My first quilt is a 3×3 on-point layout. All the blocks in this Frames section have a large focal square, which is great for

Thanks to everyone who participated in last month’s design challenge! You can view all the quilt designs submitted here. Winners Two winners were selected by designer Brett Lewis of Natural Born Quilter! Congratulations to…. Winner 1: Debbie Cowan “Debbie’s design reminded me of peering through a garden trellis and spotting beautiful birds and foliage.” – Brett Lewis Winner 2: Deni Dickler “I loved the modern feel of Deni’s design and use of the coordinating solids to really make Ornithology pop!” – Brett Lewis A Note from Brett Lewis “So many great entries again for this design challenge, and it was very challenging to narrow it down to two!” – Brett Lewis Honorable Mentions Don’t forget to look at all the amazing submissions to this challenge. Here are a few honorable mentions! More Chances to Win Midnight Bloom by Chong-a Hwang for Timeless Treasures is January’s Fabric of the Month! Download the collection and enter our design challenge for another chance to win some fabric!

Happy New Year! Let’s celebrate 2025 with some free fabric! January’s Fabric of the Month is Midnight Bloom by Chong-a Hwang for Timeless Treasures. This stunning array of designs captures the ethereal beauty of night-blooming gardens, featuring a harmonious blend of purples and blues that evoke the serene charm of moonlit evenings. Midnight Bloom is perfect for those who wish to infuse their projects with a touch of nature’s night-time elegance! A bundle of these fabrics will be given away to two lucky winners! Submit your EQ design featuring Midnight Bloom below…all instructions and contest details are in this post. Good luck! To enter In order to enter for the giveaway you must submit a quilt using the current Fabric of the Month AND comment on at least one other person’s quilt you like by the end of the month. If you’re the first person to submit a quilt, make sure to come back and

In 2024 EQ has been making a quilt. Every month we’ve been featuring a block and employee, and this is our final one! (Although next month we’ll post about the finished quilt.) We started this project because we’ve hired some new employees and wanted to make sure everyone knew how to quilt. You can follow along with our Sew-Along so you can get to know the EQ staff better and see our blocks. If you’d like to sew along and get more details about the project, check them out here. This month we’re featuring Gracyn! Gracyn says, “I have worked at EQ for a little over 6 months. I handle support calls, product assembly, and product inventory. I also package our web, distributor, and wholesale orders to ensure our customers get products in a timely manner. I love the atmosphere of EQ and how knowledgeable and helpful everyone is. It

Welcome to the EQ8 Block Spotlight! Each month we highlight a block from the EQ8 Block Library with a few design ideas. Then we want you to show us what you can do with the block. We hope these posts will inspire you to try something new and expand your EQ skills! This month’s block: Sedona’s Star Where to find it: 03 Foundation Pieced > Holidays – Christmas Design ideas to spark your creativity I love a good Christmas quilt, so I stuck with the red and green coloring from the library for my first quilt. This fabric collection is Pine Valley by BasicGrey, which I downloaded from Moda’s website (here’s how to import fabric images from a website). This is a 5 x 5 horizontal layout, and I paired the featured block with an original block I drew on the Block Worktable. The Sedona’s Star block is in the