Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

I recieved an email from Christine Scorza of www.112sewing.com. She wanted to share a quilt her customer created… the VERY FIRST quilt this woman had ever created! Chris tells us, Dear Sarah, One of our customers, Maura, had never quilted and wanted to create something on her own. So, my quilting teacher, a devout EQ user, suggested that she might enjoy your program. By the way, I forgot to tell you that Maura is a semi-retired architect. Well, look what she did the first time she used her EQ….fantastic!!! Chris We are all so impressed, Maura! Wonderful job and thank you for sharing with us.

Jean Boyd sent us some photos of her 4 new patterns that she created in EQ6 for Northcott Fabric! We wanted to share them with you so that you can be on the look out for these patterns. Jean tells us a little about each one. I have just published 4 new patterns for Northcott Fabric and all 4 were designed using EQ6 and new fabrics from Northcott.   • Glimpses of Geishas uses the Silhouettes collection by Ro Gregg for Northcott.   • Starry Night and Hearts and Stars uses the Good Morning Sunshine collection by Mark Lipinski for Northcott                   Jean Boyd patterns@ripnet.com www.PatternsByJeanBoyd.com Thanks for sharing with us Jean!

Quilter’s Paradise 1451 Montiel Road Suite 140 Escondido, CA 92026 760-738-9677 sue@quiltersparadiseesc.com Mon-Wed, Fri 9 – 6 Thurs 9 – 9 Sat 10 – 5 Sun 11 -4 www.quiltersparadiseesc.com The short paragraph below incorporates answers to the following questions: WE WANT TO KNOW: – What’s your next quilting purchase going to be and why? – What’s the best part about working all day in a quilt shop? – If you teach, what is your favorite class to teach? My husband and I both come from a corporate, high-tech background and have found our second careers owning a quilt shop to be extremely fulfilling. Helping customers and meeting new people are very rewarding and important to us. Quilting is a very social activity with lots to learn and share, so we have classes nearly every day, 5 area guilds hold workshops at the shop, and several private groups meet regularly at

Sewing Machines Etcetera Burlington, Ontario, Canada info@sewetc.com 905-639-5525. Our Hours of Enjoyment are Monday 10-4, Tuesday-Friday 10-5:30, Sat 10-4. Sunday is for church and family! www.SewEtc.com We have classes for every level of sewer: Learn to Sew for children and adults, Learn to Quilt, machine training courses which are given free to people who purchase a machine from us, special technique classes like creating a lace scarf in the sewing machine, dimensional applique, printing on fabric, embroidery techniques and more. We also teach many software classes using the Husqvarna Viking 4D Embroidery Software, Quilt Design Wizard and EQ6. One service we offer that is unusual is a quilt frame rental program. We have the Husqvarna Viking Mega Quilter 18×8 set up on a large frame. Quilter’s take a short class with us to learn how to load the quilt and use the automated quilter. Then they can rent the frame

Silkequilt.no Asker outside Oslo,Norway +47 90 84 20 15 Hours: 8 am – 22 pm www.silkequilt.com Pictured areRosalie Quinland design I reduced in size and is now a silk cushion in my mother living room, a design that will be presented in the magazine with pattern and sewing instruction made on EQ6 – in silk –of course and number, and ”snøfnugg blå” which is a free design with pattern I made from EQ6 to my customers and means snowflakes… Classes you hold and/or Quilt Groups or Guilds that meet there Starting up classes in Silkquilting and EQ6 tutorial in mid March -10 I discovered that silk goes very well with jewelry – so I also have lovely pieces of all kinds of jewelry from 2 carats diamondsrings to cheap necklaces for my customers who love to browse. Look at my designs, fabrics, patterns and jewelry WE WANT TO KNOW: Do you

The Quilters Quarters, Inc 200 S 5th St, Leavenworth, KS 66048 (913) 651-6510 jerry@quiltersqtrs.com Hours 9:30-5 M-F, 9:30-3:30 Sat, closed Sun www.quiltersqtrs.com WE WANT TO KNOW: What beginning quilting question do you get quite often? What do you tell them? How do I decide what colors go together? Answer: You pick one fabric you love, then we will help you select colors from that piece. Even if you do not use the original piece, you know the colors will work together because if it. What’s your favorite part of the day at work? When we get our new military class of wives each year. Ft Leavenworth is home to the Command and General Staff College for the Army and each summer we have about 1500 new families arrive in our community and we love to teach these younger wives how to quilt. If they are already accomplished quilters, I will

Village Quiltworks 1950 Keene Road, Suite B Richland, WA 99352 509.628.0652 quiltworks@msn.com Hours 10-6 pm M-F 10-5 pm Sat. www.villagequiltworks.com Visit www.villagequiltworks.com and click on “Classes” for a current listing of classes each quarter. We are happy to welcome our “Tangled Threads” stitchery club, Civil War Block of the Month Club, Mystery Block of the Month Club, Longarm Ladies Machine Quilting Group, Bechtal Women’s Community Service Group, and others. WE WANT TO KNOW: Do you help your customers plan a design to finish their UFO’s? Absolutey! We love the challenge of helping customers use up their “stash” fabrics….you know, if they do use them, then they are eager to come back and replenish that stash! What’s your favorite trick? We have worked with customers who use the EQ6 program to design their own quilts because they see how we use the program here in the shop to design patterns/quilt designs