Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

Of course you can use EQ7 to make jack o’ lanterns! Print out patterns and use them as stencils to either cut out or paint. Here are a few (of many) blocks in EQ7 that would work well. (And, here is some info on drawing your own silhouettes in EQ7.) But, traditional blocks look great too! If this inspires you to make something, let us know! Email photos to Heidi@electricquilt.com.

Bea Lee is hosting another Blog Hop. Last time was a lot of fun, so I decided to do it again. Everyone is posting tutorials and project downloads. Bea is doing an EQ7 giveaway too! Here are the participants: October 21st Bea Beaquilter Jane’s quilting October 22nd Connie Freemotion by the river October 23rd Amy sew incredibly crazy SewCalgal October 24th Nancy Patchworkbreeze Marian seams to be sew October 25th Carol Funthreads and me! Here are my blocks I drew. You can download the EQ7 project here. And now for the tutorial. We’ll start with the pie block. To make the outside crust, I started with the Polygon   tool.I drew an octagon and clicked Add Nodes  .I clicked Converted Lines to Curves .I used the blue handles to adjust the curves. Once I had a outside crust shape I liked, I used the Oval tool to draw the top crust.

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Bea Lee is hosting another Blog Hop. The last one was so fun, we decided to do this one too. Everyone will post a tutorial and project download. Bea will be giving away an EQ7, too! Here is the schedule:   October 21st (today) Bea Beaquilter Jane’s quilting October 22nd Connie Freemotion by the river October 23rd Amy sew incredibly crazy SewCalgal October 24th Nancy Patchworkbreeze Marian seams to be sew October 25th Carol Funthreads  “EQ Mouse” Electric Quilt   For more details you can check out Bea’s site. Enjoy the hop!

The other day I posted about how you could enter our contest to win a $100 EQ Gift Certificate. (Details here.) Now the blocks you need to use in your project are available as PDF so you don’t need EQ to enter. Download PDF 1/2 for Block 1 Download PDF 2/2 for Block 1 Download PDF for Block 2 Download PDF for Block 3 Download PDF for Block 4 Good luck everyone! Can’t wait to see your projects!

Christa Watson is longtime quilter and EQ user. She is as enthusiastic about designing quilts as she is about quilting them herself, and she loves to share many of her original designs for free on her blog. When Christa recently discovered that she could share her actual design sketches with other EQ7 users she jumped right on board with it! Modern Trees download page Christa hosts a series of very popular quilt alongs on her blog where she guides you step-by-step through the entire process of making a quilt. Just recently she’s made four of her quilt along designs available for EQ7 download, and she’s in the process of making the rest of them available, soon. Hugs N Kisses download page Sea of Squares download page Baby Bricks download page When asked about what she likes best about EQ7, Christa said: “I love that I can see exactly what the

Don’t forget about our EQ contest! Details here. You could win $100 EQ Gift Certificate! And now, you don’t need EQ to enter! Download the PDFs here!