Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

Ready to share your finished EQ7 Summer Drawing Series projects? I’m so excited to see what everyone has done with their blocks! You should all be so proud of yourselves for drawing AND sewing these blocks! Here’s my finished quilt: I used the four lesson blocks and added some flying geese to create movement around the quilt. Dense quilting just didn’t seem in keeping with these soft, feminine colors, so I kept the quilting fairly minimal. I hope all the sew-alongers love their finished projects as much as I love mine! To Link Up Your Photo Scroll down to the comment form at the end of this post. Fill in your info and make sure you select an image for your comment (this will be the photo of your quilt). If you have a blog, make sure to add your site too. If you wrote a post for this quilt,

Get your sewing machines ready, we actually want you to sew for this one! We want to see your creativity. Download this EQ7 project  (or the PDFs here) and use one of the blocks in a sewn project of your choice. It can be anything, a huge quilt, wall-hanging, bag, whatever. We will be posting photos on Facebook. Then, YOU will be choosing a winner! And, the winner will get a $100 EQ gift certificate! (Redeemable for EQ products. No cash value.) HOW TO ENTER: -          Email a photo of your finished project to Heidi@electricquilt.com -          Include your first and last name -          Subject line EQ Contest -          Entries due by November 8th BONUS FOR FESTIVAL GOERS! If you are planning on going to Quilt Festival in Houston make a wearable EQ project with one of the blocks from the project. A bag, a name tag, scarf/kerchief, a pin, whatever!

For those who may not know, Club EQ is a monthly club run by Barb Vlack. Every month Barb makes up a new challenge. If you submit a EQ project (no sewing required) then you get ALL the projects from everyone that participated that month. September’s challenge is Words on your quilt! You can check out the entries so far this month. We thought we had to share Judith Best’s entry with you. So cute! And, I think, true!

Anne Maundrell, of Anne’s Creative Threads recently blogged about the process of her Tumbling Birds quilt, which  was designed in EQ7.     You can read about her process, and the finished quilt. Such fantastic work! I’m glad EQ had a roll in the process

We were happy to see that Jo Moury‘s EQ7 quilt was on the cover of the September/October issue of Quiltmaker. Then we found out that Denise Russart’s EQ7 quilt was also featured. We started to wonder…How many of the quilts in this issue of Quiltmaker we designed in EQ? So we started doing some research. And, we found out that the vast majority of them ARE EQ7 quilts! When we asked the designers about EQ here is a little bit of what they had to say… Konda Luckau says, “I do all my designing in EQ. I love it!” You can check out her blog and her entry about Knit & Purl. Carolyn Beam is the Creative Editor for Quiltmaker. She says, “We do work with several different EQ users in quilts we publish in Quiltmaker…I also use EQ when I design my quilts and I did use it in

Close to St. Charles, Missouri? Come see an EQ demo in booths 64-65 at the Round Bobbin Quilting, Sewing & Fiber Art Expo. September 20-21, 2013 St. Charles Convention Center One Convention Center Plaza St. Charles, MO

  Quiltmaker has a fun Back to School Giveaway happening. The quilt for Back to School is called Playground. It was designed in EQ7 by Denise Russart. Everyone knows EQ is great for seeing different fabric options for the same layout. This is a fun way to do just that!