Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

Way back in September, Jill Pesti was chosen as the winner of the Plan B contest held by Blue Meadows Designs. Plan B is one of the neatest contests we’ve seen in quilting. Quilters entered their half made quilts or quilts gone wrong to Cori Derksen and Myra Harder, quilt designers and owners of Blue Meadow Designs. The two women chose the quilt they felt not only could use the most help but also had the most potential to transform into something better! Cori and Myra then spent the next several months re working the quilt but keeping the original idea and feel of Jill’s artwork. The transformation was not only miraculous but really fun! Take a look at the before and after of Jill’s quilt. See more of the transformation of the Plan B quilt on Cori and Myra’s blog. And if you love their designs, check out Town and Country Patchwork by

Jane Hall was kind enough to send us a copy of her newest book (written with Dixie Haywood), Every Quilter’s Foundation Piecing Reference Tool, just out from C & T. Jane and Dixie, both EQ users, are THE authorities about foundation piecing. Between them they have about 80 years experience quilting, teaching and writing about a gazillion how-to and design quilting books. Like all good teachers, they set out to teach you more than just how to sew the blocks in their book. Their aim is to show you how to look at any block, so you begin to see for yourself how to divide the block into sections, or perhaps modify it, for quick foundation piecing. They used blocks from BlockBase and EQ6. This would be a great book for EQers who wanted to learn more about foundation piecing by studying block structure, making it easier to draw original foundation blocks in EQ6, or just

We just HAD to share this adorable quilt made with EQ printable fabrics and the very nice comments that came with it. Beautiful job, Jennifer. This quilt is such a treasure. “Hi, I used your premium cotton lawn fabric in a memory quilt that I made as a gift for my sister’s baby shower.  I put pictures of her, her husband, and their two daughters in it, along with blocks of bright but girly (all three children are girls) fabrics.  I’d never sewn anything before, and had just recently learned how to use my new sewing machine.  I was able to print all of the pictures I wanted without a single hitch!  It didn’t jam in my printer even once.  The pictures came out looking as sharp as they do when I print them on paper.  I printed them all in black and white, which made them stand out nicely

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Leslie Hagood wrote us about a quilt she recently designed in EQ5. The idea for the quilt was inspired by the Matterhorn Quilt from the book, “Quilts In America”. It’s so interesting to see them both side by side. What a labor intensive quilt to make! Such patience and diligence is involved. Leslie has plans to make the quilt someday soon so we’ll share it with you if we get the chance to see it! Thanks Leslie!

If anyone has fabric of the month suggestions, please send them to penny@electricquilt.com. When we don’t hear what you want, we go with employee picks like purple for Sara Woodward, Erin McMorris fabrics for Penny McMorris, or Andrea’s infamous “Random Farm Animals” episode when she really couldn’t think of what to put on the website. The fabrics of the month you’d get in 6 months of downloads are less than 10% of the fabrics you’d receive from just one edition of Stash. We’re scanning away here at EQ for the next edition. Look for our twentieth edition of Stash coming in May/June. Don’t forget to download the new “Black & White & Red” Allover group we just put up on the website.

For those of you doing the online EQ5/EQ6 lessons for Kaleidoscope Collection, the next lesson is up and ready! This month we’re drawing alternate blocks. I hope you have fun! -Andrea p.s. I bought my border fabric and batting this weekend for the “mystery side sewing project.” I can’t wait to see/read your reactions once the mystery is revealed. I hope a lot of you have chosen to sew along.