Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

Happy Holidays from the Electric Quilt Company! You can download these blocks, FREE, here.    

You can use these cute little bags as a place card at your holiday dinner or, just as a treat bag. Download the project here. I drew a very basic shape for the “envelope”. I tried printing it out a few times and figured out that for a good cookie-sized envelope, you can fit two to a page, horizontally. To add some designs I picked some blocks from Library > Block Library > 05 Contemporary Applique > Holiday or Christmas. If you put one of the blocks, as is, on Layer 2, it won’t look right.   Open the block you want on the Block Worktable. Click the Applique Tab. Select all. Copy. Block > New Block > PatchDraw Motif. Paste. Center  the drawing if you need to. Save it in your Sketchbook. You will now have a new block show under the Motifs Tab in the Sketchbook. Place your

I hope everyone found time in their busy holiday schedules to sew up block #2354! I see lots of interesting ways to color this block, so I’m anxious to see how everyone else approached it. I’ve got Christmas on the brain, so the whole time I was sewing this block, I kept picturing this: Add an appliqué bow and you’ve got a wreath! I’m trying to keep all my sew along blocks coordinating (in a scrappy sort of way), so the wreath version will have to be a project for another day! 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 block). If you have a blog, make sure to add your site too. If you wrote a post for this

You may be thinking that it’s too late to start making a new gift. You’re running out of time and you’ve got so much wrapping to do…Well! Look at all these adorable fabric (reusable) gift bags you could make! This site has a lot of similar bags. All simple, cute and perfect for EQ Printables!   You can download a free Recycle symbol EQ7 block here. Modern and easy! Print out a favorite EQ block on piece of EQ Printable Fabric. How about the Free Downloadable Winter Blocks? These bags have recipes printed on them. Cute! It would also be great to print some song lyrics, pages of a favorite book, the story of Santa Claus…lots and lots of possibilities. Kids’ artwork scanned it and printed out on EQ Printables. A perfect gift for the parent, grandparent, or the child. Trace a child’s actual hands. Sweet and simple! You could

Hi Everyone!  I’m Angela and I blog over at Cuttopieces.blogspot.com.  I’m here today to share with you a tutorial for Electric Quilt users. I’m an avid EQ user and I’m a “modern” quilter, so I’m always looking for ways to use the software to suit my needs in the best way.  One of the things that I have found about the default settings in EQ is the fabric selections are not to my taste. They are plenty of people’s taste but we all have fabrics we know and love. And I’m going to show you how to take those fabrics and turn them into your default fabric palette, so they are there every time you go to color in a quilt or block. I have favorite fabrics that I use as blenders and basics in my stash. And I would love to design in EQ with them.  Perhaps you have a

Another easy holiday gift is fabric cone trees. Or, they don’t have to be a gift, make them for yourself! You can download an EQ7 pattern here. It is currently 8.5 x 12 but obviously, you can make it any size you want. If you want to make the circle base you need to keep it relative to the size you make the cone shape.Of course, you can design something in EQ7 and print it out on EQ Printables. However, a 8.5 x 11 fabric sheet makes a somewhat small tree. Another option is to make a cone tree out of regular fabric and then “decorate” it with photos, and other “ornaments” made from EQ Peel and Stick which would be adorable along with buttons, lace, ribbons, felt, ric-rac or whatever else you like! If this inspires you to make something, let us know! Email photos to Heidi@electricquilt.com.

The internet has such a wide range of ideas and styles in making dolls from printable fabric. Here are some examples I thought were interesting.         You can find files online that are free and ready to print. Like, this bear and Lollipop girl.     Printing out a picture of a beloved pet on EQ Printables is a quick, easy and unforgettable gift.     Also a great idea with a member of the family or loved one. Perhaps someone that isn’t close by. This robot is adorable. But, of course, you could take any EQ7 block and print it right onto fabric. And, you could make the helmet your favorite team’s colors (and add text) or make the giraffe turquoise before you print the block out.     For a dollhouse, you could make a family of dolls. Each personalized to the person they are