Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

Thank you to everyone who participated in July’s design challenge! This was such and fun challenge and we loved seeing all your quilt designs! You can view the submissions here. Winner One winner was selected by historian and fabric designer Barbara Brackman! Congratulations to…. Winner: Anita Verstraete A Note from Barbara Brackman “I picked Anita Verstraete’s as my winner. It has impact—would look good on a wall or a bed. Nice variety of value and colors. I have a bit of a bias but I like seeing large pieces of the prints as they are so lovely.” – Barbara Brackman Read more of Barbara’s insight and inspiration for the collection on her blog! 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 Water’s Edge by Brett Lewis of Natural Born Quilter for Northcott is August’s Fabric of the Month! Download the collection and

In her hometown Judy Martin is known just as much for her cookies as she is for her quilts! Judy says, “My cookie adventure started in 1999 when I was experimenting with recipes for my book, Cookies ’n’ Quilts. (My children recall that summer of cookie tasting and testing most fondly!) This recipe is one I developed more recently. I consider both cookies and quilts to be America’s quintessential comforts.” We couldn’t agree more! We apologize that there was a typo in the original recipe (the size to roll the dough into balls was too big). Please download the updated recipe above. If you did make the recipe as originally posted, you made the dough balls 2-3/4” (instead of 1-3/4), and you would just need to bake them longer. Also, today is the last day of our sale on Judy’s Quilt add-ons! Buy one & Save $5! Buy both &

This contest is now closed. Winners will be announced soon! We can’t believe summer is already coming to an end! Let’s cheer ourselves up with some fabulous fabric! August’s Fabric of the Month is Water’s Edge by Brett Lewis of Natural Born Quilter for Northcott. Showcased in the collection are beautifully illustrated flora and fauna featuring Great Blue Heron, frogs, turtles, dragonflies, moths, and mayflies as well as a variety of foliage created in Brett’s unique style. A bundle of these fabrics will be given away to two lucky winners! Submit your EQ design featuring Water’s Edge 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

In this lesson we’ll cover just a couple landscape quilts, but the general ideas and techniques can be applied to design many different types of landscape quilts. Let’s get started! For the first example we’re basically drawing the whole quilt as one block. Open EQ8 and click Block Worktable Click NEW BLOCK > Pieced & Applique > Easy + Applique Change the size of the block to the size or the same proportions you want for your quilt. In this example, the block is 12 inches x 6 inches (which is in proportion to the finished size of the quilt, set in step 11). The snaps are 24 x 12 (every half inch). The snaps should always be multiples of the block size.You can just make the block the size you want the finished quilt to be but here are some things to take into consideration… • The maximum block

I have so many ideas bubbling up in my head.  I like to teach decorative stitching with a standard sewing machine, digitizing for an embroidery machine, and using the EQ8 program to create the background blocks to work with.  I can’t see all my steps in EQ8 but I can get a good feel for how the blocks will look that I can add further stitch embellishments to later. Open your EQ8 program.  Name your new project “Testing Ideas”. Click the OK at the bottom of the box to name the new project. You will see the name of the new project at the top of the screen. Click on the block worktable icon on the upper right side of the screen.   On the ribbon at the top of the screen, select the ‘pieced & applique’ icon and then select the ‘easy + applique’ icon. My idea is to teach

With so many stunning submissions, it wasn’t easy to choose, but following are the winners for the Electric Quilt + Quilts of Valor Foundation® (QOVF) event! To see why it was such a difficult decision, you can view all of the previous posts, including the glorious submissions here. Overall Winner The overall winner is Paco Rich with her perfectly patriotic “Race to the Stars” quilt, as seen above and in the February post!! Paco actually wrote a blog post on her own website about all of her QOV she’s made over the years which includes a pattern for this winning quilt! You can also see different pictures of the quilts she submitted in February, including veterans receiving their much-deserved gorgeous quilts, as part of her blog! Thank you Paco for supporting this incredible foundation and sharing your lovely work! QOVF Winner Christy Herzog’s “Kaleidoscope #3″ quilt is the QOVF’s selected winner! Christy submitted this

Thank you to everyone who participated in June’s design challenge! SO many gorgeous quilts were summitted, be sure to view them all here. Winners Three winners were selected, one by the QT Fabrics team and the other two were chosen randomly. Congratulations to…. Winner 1 (QT Fabrics’ Pick): Kelly Sattler Winner 2 (Random Pick): Debbie Fisico Winner 3 (Random Pick): Stella Crutcher A Note from QT Fabrics “What a tough choice – all the submissions are fantastic. We LOVED seeing them all!” – QT Fabrics 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 Morris Meadow by Barbara Brackman for Moda is July’s Fabric of the Month! Download the collection and enter in our design challenge for another chance to win some fabric!