Black is such a great color to make designs pop. I saw a quilt (appropriately named) “Black Beauty” in the March/April issue of McCall’s Quilting magazine. Jennifer Bosworth used EQ to design the pattern, so I thought I’d ask her more about it. Jennifer says: “I did finalize the design in EQ6. I had sketched it initially on graph paper and then it was nice to bring in the fabrics and drawings and audition different fabrics. Designing a quilt with EQ allows me to see exactly what my finished quilt will look like. I can audition several fabric and color variations before settling on the perfect combination! I would definitely recommend this software to anyone that enjoys designing their own quilts!” The quilt uses a really pretty black and pink floral from Marti Michell’s “Wild Roses” collection for Maywood Studio. Get the March/April 2011 issue of McCall’s Quilting to have
Jennifer Bosworth’s “Black Beauty” quilt featured in McCall’s Quilting March/April 2011
Posted 01-20-2011 by Electric Quilt | Posted in: Uncategorized
EQ7 Coloways Article in Fat Quarterly
Posted 01-19-2011 by Sarah | Posted in: Uncategorized
Congratulations to the Shriver family!
Posted 01-18-2011 by Electric Quilt | Posted in: Uncategorized
Dorothy Ann Weld’s Quilt in McCall’s Quilting March/April 2011
Posted 01-18-2011 by Electric Quilt | Posted in: Uncategorized
I was paging through the new issue (March/April 2011) of McCall’s Quilting magazine and saw the most refreshing spring pattern. I wondered if Dorothy Ann Weld used EQ to design her “Ode to the Flower” quilt featured on pages 72 and 73, so I emailed her. Here’s what Dorothy Ann says: “Hi Andrea, I did indeed use EQ to design this quilt. I have the MOST fun designing. This quilt was submitted and accepted about a year ago. McCall’s works that far out and sometimes even further. I have one coming out in the July/Aug issue and another as far out as March 2012. I’ve learned A LOT! It’s exciting, but it is also fascinating. I’ve designed on EQ5, upgraded to 6 and now EQ7. This quilt was designed on EQ6 as 7 had not been released. I love designing on the applique setting. I create a motif, copy, rotate
Printable Fabric Sale Ends January 24, 2011
Posted 01-17-2011 by Electric Quilt | Posted in: Uncategorized
Winter Wonderland
Posted 01-17-2011 by Electric Quilt | Posted in: Uncategorized
I thought it would be fun to take a moment this Monday and design a little quilt with houses and snow on the rooftops, maybe some trees. Then I remembered, “duh. Town & Country Patchwork has them already.” So I went in and found this cute tablerunner under Mountain Trails > Autumn Evening Wall Quilt, and recolored it with snowy fabrics and lots of blues. What winter projects are you working on?
Honeycomb Waffle Quilt
Posted 01-14-2011 by Electric Quilt | Posted in: Uncategorized
This was a tech support question earlier today. It’s neat the way such a simple block creates such a fun 3D design. The block is a simple Attic Window drawn at the halfway point instead of in thirds. To make the quilt diagonally pieceable in rows (sewing the triangles together into diagonal rows), add a diagonal line through the small square too. That’s the way the block is drawn in the project. If you would rather delete the extra line from the block, you’ll be piecing together hexagons when you go to sew the quilt together.