Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

Now that everyone can purchase EQ add-on downloads, we wanted to highlight two of our European designers! Annika Kornelis The first designer is Annika Kornelis from The Netherlands. Annika has a fun blog where she writes about quilting, in general, and her quilt designs created in EQ. The blog is named Stof Genoeg, which is Dutch for “plenty of material,” though I’m guessing she always has room for more! Check out her New Year’s EQ8 quilt design, Fantasy Chinese Dragon, made up of simple quilt blocks. When asked how and when she got into quilting, here’s Annika’s response. “My mother got into quilting when I was a girl, and she still quilts at 86! Out of her five kids, I am the only one who was interested in learning to piece and quilt. I sewed a log cabin block when I was 10 years old. Even when I was a

Two classes are already full! Have you saved your seat at EQ Academy yet? If you’re new to EQ Academy, we can’t wait to meet you! Here’s what you can expect… 1. Learning! EQ8 classes are offered Thursday, May 2, Friday, May 3, and Saturday, May 4. You can come for one day, two days, or all three! There are half-day classes and full-day classes to choose from. Take a class that’s based on quilt style like, New York Beauty Quilts, Medallion Quilts, T-Shirt Quilts, and Non-Traditional Quilts.   Take a class based on a technique or feature like FPP Block Drawing, Design with EQ8 and AccuQuilt GO, and Adding Photos and Fabric to EQ8.   Want a quick beginner class? We’ve got a half-day Intro to EQ8 Quilt Design class on Saturday!   2. Fun! We kick off the fun right away! Upon arrival to EQ Academy, you’ll be

Welcome to the EQ8 Block Spotlight! Each month we highlight a block from the EQ8 Block Library with a few design ideas. Then we want you to show us what you can do with the block. We hope these posts will inspire you to try something new and expand your EQ skills! This month’s block: Simple Design Where to find it: 03 Foundation Pieced > Flying Geese Design ideas to spark your creativity Using the Simple Design block as a guide, I drew another simple block to pair it with. I edited the Simple Design block to the worktable and then converted it to guides before drawing my new block. This helps me know I’m drawing something that will work well with the original block. I alternated the two blocks in a 4 x 4 horizontal layout and then used the Symmetry tool to find this rotation of the blocks.

Thank you to everyone who participated in last month’s design challenge! So many creative designs were shared, and we loved hearing how everyone expresses their voice! View all the beautiful quilts submitted here. Winners Two winners were selected by collection designer Scott Flanagan! Congratulations to…. Winner 1: Jodie Solorio “It grabbed me right away and love how it looks like a mosaic floor.” – Scott Flanagan Winner 2: Jenny Hull “I love samplers and flying geese and this makes a striking looking quilt!” – Scott Flanagan Honorable Mentions Don’t forget to look at all the amazing submissions to this challenge. Here are a few honorable mentions! More Chances to Win Ebony Suite by Barbara Brackman for Moda is March’s Fabric of the Month! Download the collection and enter in our design challenge for another chance to win some fabric!

This contest is now closed. The winner is announced here! Who’s ready to design?! March’s Fabric of the Month is Ebony Suite by Barbara Brackman for Moda! Ebony Suite revisits William Morris’s iconic designs with a nod to London’s famous mists and foggy streets. Classic prints are colored in elegant undertones from ebony black to champagne ivory. The collection includes 19th-century London’s perennial favorites, the pimpernel primrose and willow boughs, rendered in a shady filigree. Ebony Suite’s Strawberry Thief print is recreated in the coloring of London’s nightingale thrush, Morris’s fruit garden raider. Create elegant patchwork with these updated and timeless neutrals! A bundle of these fabrics will be given away to one lucky winner! Submit your EQ design featuring Ebony Suite below…all instructions and contest details are in this post. Good luck!   To enter In order to enter for the giveaway you must submit a quilt using the current Fabric of

Contest closed. Winner: Karen Hutchings! Thank you to everyone who participated! In February of 2022, EQ user, Shannon Arnstein was scrolling through Etsy and saw a panel that she couldn’t resist. That panel sparked an idea for a book so Shannon got to sewing. That fall, the book was picked up by Landauer/Fox Chapel publishing company and a year later, “Quilting with Panels and Patchwork” hit the shelves! Shannon says, “This book is for anyone who enjoys making quilts with panels or would like to attempt it. Panels are amazing! They come in every subject and offer great visual impact, but they can be equally intimidating and frustrating. They can be difficult to work with. I help cover some of the pitfalls of panels. They do not come in standard sizes, so often, we don’t know what to do with them. I give fifteen different approaches to using panels in

We’re sponsoring the American Patchwork & Quilting Spring Quilt Along! This year’s quilt is called Heart of the Home and it was designed in EQ by Sherri McConnell of A Quilting Life. If you want to quilt along, get the details on APQ’s website > You can also download the free project file for EQ8 > The EQ8 project includes 29 fabrics from the Strawberry Lemonade collection by Sherri & Chelsi for Moda. APQ even has a Facebook group for those who are quilting along! Join the APQ Quilt Along Facebook Group > You can also follow along with Sherri on her YouTube channel! Happy Quilting!