Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

Check out our Facebook album of wonderful projects! Here is how the contest works: Look at all the photos in the Facebook album. (“Like” Electric Quilt on Facebook too, if you haven’t already!) “Like” your favorite entry. The entry with the most “likes” wins an $100 EQ gift certificate. Sorry, we are no longer accepting entries. For more contest details, you can read this. Thanks to everyone that entered! Good luck!

We are starting a new series called, New to EQ. Quilters who have never used EQ before will be blogging about their first experiences. The posts are not edited by The Electric Quilt in any way and we don’t know what they are going to post until it’s already been posted. We HAVE told them to contact techsupport@electricquilt.com if they have any issues…but we tell all of our users that. We are hoping that people see that you shouldn’t be intimidated by EQ7! The first blogger who we are featuring is Sarah Sharp of nohatsinthehouse.com. She is a brand new EQ user. You can read about her first few clicks in EQ7. Her is a bit of what she has to say, “I think my heart skipped a beat the first time I whipped up a layout for my ‘shott{ing} stars design.  Not only is it super easy, but it also

Elizabeth Dackson of Don’t Call Me Betsy! is the focus of our User Spotlight today. You can find Elizabeth’s beautiful designs everywhere (Quiltmaker, Modern Quilts Unlimited, and Quilty- just to name a few!) and she recently released her first book called Becoming a Confident Quilter. She’s quite the busy quilter, so I’d like to thank her for taking time out of her busy schedule to chat with us! Showstopper (EQ design left, finished quilt right) by Elizabeth Dackson How long have you been quilting? I’ve been quilting pretty much as long as I’ve been sewing, almost four years. I didn’t start sewing until I became a stay-at-home mom and wandered into Jo-Ann’s one Sunday morning in search of a hobby. I bought my first sewing machine, and haven’t stopped sewing since! I devoured library books, teaching myself everything I could about sewing, and then I stumbled upon blogs and made

Don’t forget, we are having a contest with the chance to win a $100 EQ gift certificate! Read all the details here. Also, if you came to our Festival booth with your EQ wearable — make sure you send us a photo of your project for the chance to win the $100 gift certificate!

Have you seen all of our block collections at MyEQBoutique? Did you know you can shop by designer, by technique (pieced vs. applique, etc.), by holiday or theme? Did you know that you can customize your purchase and just buy the blocks you want? (Check out this example) Did you know that you can link MyEQBoutique blocks to your EQ7? One of our downloads is Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks Volume 1. You can read more about it on Quiltmaker’s blog. Here are some quilts I made with a few of the blocks in the collection. We also have Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks Volume 2 and Volume 3. You may know many of the designers from the quilting world and as fellow EQ users!

Close to Lincoln, Nebraska? EQ demos and products at The Sew Original Quilt & Creative Expo. November 7-9 at booths 210-212!

The new November/December issue of Quiltmaker is packed full of festive holiday quilts! We all know how the holidays can sneak up on you, so it’s time to start those holiday projects now. You’ll find lots of new inspiration in this issue! Want to know more about working with quilting stencils on Layer 3 in EQ7? Check out the Creative Spark article over on Quiltmaker’s website. You’ll love being able to plan your quilt designs from start to finish, including the quilting! Want to add even more quilting stencils to your EQ7 Block Library? Check out the Quilting Designs series– there are hundreds on designs on each CD!