Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

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While in Houston for Quilt Festival, I met Rachel Hirsch and we talked about printable fabrics and some great uses for them. Then Rachel told me about a memory quilt she was making for her friend in memory of her daughter Chelsea. I asked her to send me a photo when it was finished… and she did! So I wanted to share the memory of Chelsea with all of you. Rachel did a great job on this quilt.

Don’t forget to submit your answer for the Who’s your Mama? Contest: https://doyoueq.com/blog/?p=496 Win $50 gift certificate for EQ stuff. Entries must be received by Jan. 28th 9 a.m. Eastern.

Do you own the My Dream House CD by Angie Padilla and EQ6? Looking for new projects and fun ideas? Play house with Angie at her new section on her website for users to download FREE projects just like the one you see to the left! They are just some ideas of what you could do with some of the projects and libraries included on the My Dream House CD and they are always adorable. Visit Angie’s site to read more and access the projects. Remember, you must have EQ and the My Dream House CD to use these projects.

Do you own Sue Spargo Folk-Art Dreams from Electric Quilt and Sue Spargo? If you liked the program or just love Sue’s style sign up for her block of the month club. Tomorrow is the last day to sign up for Sue Spargo’s block of the Month Club. To register go to her website and sign up for the club now.

Lynda Remmers and Annie Moody wrote us to tell their story about how they use EQ6 to flourish their business and we thought we’d share it with you. “My first glimpse at Electric Quilt was at Spring Quilt Market in Utah last year. I took a school house class and was amazed at how much EQ would help us out in designing our product. We use EQ to of course design the blocks, but it has the additional advantage of saving the image to import into out digitizing software. My daytime job is the owner of two sewing machine dealerships in Woodstock and Carpentersville Illinois. Our customers love the addition of EQ in the digitizing classes we offer. My sister and I have a new small company called hoopsisters.com. We design and digitize quilts that stitch out in embroidery machines. Hoopsisters.com has an EmbroidaBlock of the month program we sell

Read this story sent to us by Carol Clasper about how she and some friends were able to give back with quilting and some planning with their EQ6. “I just wanted to share a story with you. I was teaching at the LQS and one of my students, Claire Wenham, had just returned from a trip to Nepal. Whilst there she saw a school for deaf children which was poorly resourced. She wanted to do something to help the children and after discussing a few ideas decided to make a quilt to auction to raise money to send to the school. I offered to design a quilt in EQ. It had to be simple as we were going to ask people of various skills to donate blocks. I designed a quilt using half square triangles in blue and white fabric. The ladies from the classes at the LQS ladies from