Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

Year of Flowers! Download and print patterns for these blocks at any size! Build your own garden quilt! Check out more blocks from Regina and other amazing designers at MyEQBoutique.com.

Judy Butcher (aka the Virtual Quilter) continues her series on the Do You EQ Blog! Part 1: Click here to see  how I carefully, rather randomly, selected the blocks. Part 2: Click here to see how I selected the fabrics and added them to the blocks. Here, and now, you can see how I start designing quilts with the blocks. I start with a simple, straight setting with minimal spaces for blocks… usually 3 x 3. I add simple, basic borders, just solid strips of fabrics used in the blocks. This is one of the many things I love about Electric Quilt. As soon as I add blocks the design looks finished. I may want to change the blocks, and make the borders much more elaborate, but I start to get a feel for the finished design as soon as the first blocks are added. If it looks like a

One of our users, Peggi at Seamstobeyouandme.com has been busy with her EQ7. In one blog post, What was I thinking, Part 2, Peggi talks about how she made one block she really liked, then used EQ to try out different layouts for her beloved block. In another post, Using EQ7 to Make Scallops, she shows, with photos, how she used EQ7 to customize scallops exactly the way she wanted them for her quilt. Very helpful if you are interested in this topic. The quilts look great! Thanks, Peggi, for sending us your blog!

Yvonne Menear  is an educator, speaker, and author. She wrote EQ with Me: Learning EQStitch and posts video lessons on youtube about it (they are great, you should be watching these!). She will answer your EQStitch questions on the EQ Forum. Yvonne has also started an EQStitch Yahoo discussion group, AND she will teach 3 hands-on classes in Houston during International Quilt Festival. (View the class listing.) WOW. Recently Janome wrote a post about her, that shows off her wonderful embroidery. You can read it here. For more information about Yvonne you can also check out her website Yvonnemenear.com. Thanks to Yvonne for all the help with teaching people about EQStitch!

The Quilt Pattern is giving away an EQ7! See their website  for details. Good Luck!

One of our users, Sindy Rodenmayer, has kindly offered to share her hand-drawn EQStich alphabet. Download it here. (Only availbale for EQStitch.) Sindy has a great website full of patterns drawn with Electric Quilt. Check it out Fatcatpatterns.com! She also has 27 applique pattern collections on My EQ Boutique. Thanks for your letters, Sindy! Your work is adorable!