Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

Looking for some great pumpkin carving ideas? Look no further than EQ7! All your drawings, blocks, appliqués, and even stencils make beautiful ideas for carving into pumpkins. Just print your favorite designs, tape to your pumpkin and start carving. TIP: Print your pumpkin carving designs onto EQ’s Quilter’s Newsprint. This paper is perfect for tearing away easily and will trim away easier than regular paper while carving. Who knew… EQ7 for Halloween pumpkin fun! Send us photos of your EQ designed pumpkins so we can share them on the blog!

Guess how many pieces of corn candy we’ve jammed into this jar. We’ll choose one winner at random from all correct answers, or whoever comes closest. One guess per person please. The prize: Blending Photos with Fabrics 2 book by Mary Ellen Kranz To enter, send an email with your guess to our “Contest Contessa” Sarah Shriver: To: sarahshriver@electricquilt.com Subject line: Corn Candy Count Body: Your guess of the number of corn candy pieces that are in the jar. Your Full Name: Your Email:

Is it REALLY that time already!? Get ready to countdown the days until Christmas with this adorable advent calendar designed in EQ7 by Jenny Novinsky and pieced and quilted by Margaret Okuley. Countdown to Christmas is pictured as the Photo Finish in the Holiday Issue of The Quilter magazine and the istructions can be found here on their website. Enjoy!

Looking to win some great stuff?! Just enter in this series of give aways from Debi over at Fall into Fall blog. You can win TONS of great prizes just by entering including a STASH Fall 2010 for The Electric Quilt Company. GO NOW!

Have you seen the Fall Quiltposium issue yet? In it on page 144 you will find Andrea Bishop’s “Designing a Strip Quilt” lesson. It is a really great lesson showing you the basics for making strip quilts in EQ7. Andrea also gives you 9 beautiful strip quilt layout measurements so you can recreate them and make them your own in EQ7.  

Marsha in a KY native and of course enjoys quilting. She’s a EQer too! Recently she sent us photos of a barn quilt she made using EQ6. “The one of me and the barn is the first I did.  We are in Ky. and the square is called “Kentucky Crossroads”.  I have learned a lot since the first one.  Mainly that I put a border on the squares, it makes them “pop” a lot more. I have done a lot of red, white and black, The colors really stand out on a building. The “ideas for Monna” is a page I sent to a lady who wanted “Stars and Beams”, but could not decide on a color. The “quilt squares available”.  Is what the lady who has the shop shows her customers.  I would also make anything they want if they have a favorite block.  Thank goodness, EQ has all

Sue Malloy was the winner of the Too Much Fun contest in our monthly EQ Newsletter! Congrats Sue! Sue will recieve a Quiltmaker Volume 6 to enjoy. Want to get in on these contests and more included in our monthly EQ Newsletter? Subscribe now!