Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

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: Sedona’s Star Where to find it: 03 Foundation Pieced > Holidays – Christmas Design ideas to spark your creativity I love a good Christmas quilt, so I stuck with the red and green coloring from the library for my first quilt. This fabric collection is Pine Valley by BasicGrey, which I downloaded from Moda’s website (here’s how to import fabric images from a website). This is a 5 x 5 horizontal layout, and I paired the featured block with an original block I drew on the Block Worktable. The Sedona’s Star block is in the

Thanks to everyone who participated in last month’s design challenge! We loved seeing all your colorful creations! Be sure to view all entries here. Winner One winner was selected randomly. Congratulations to…. Winner : Joan Lucchese 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 Ornithology from Northcott is December’s Fabric of the Month! Download the collection and enter our design challenge for another chance to win some fabric!

This contest is now closed. Winners are announced here! Happy Holidays! Let’s finish off 2024 with December’s Fabric of the Month: Ornithology by Brett Lewis of Natural Born Quilter for Northcott! Explore a romanticized study of birds with Natural Born Quilter’s fifth collection for Northcott Fabrics. Showcased in the collection are beautifully illustrated flora and fauna featuring pheasants, swallows, and songbirds, as well as a variety of foliage created in Brett’s unique style. A selection of premium Colorworks solids completes the collection. A bundle of these fabrics will be given away to two lucky winners! Submit your EQ design featuring Ornithology 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 the Month AND comment on at least one other person’s quilt you like by the end of the month. If you’re the first person

            Quilting friends, I am excited to share that we are releasing FIVE MORE GO! Qube Block Add-ons for EQ8! That’s right, there are five additional Block libraries offering hundreds more blocks that you can easily design within EQ8 and then cut out with your AccuQuilt GO! Qube dies and cutters. Each of these five, easy-to-use block libraries will work with any size Qube. When you combine Electric Quilt® software with your AccuQuilt® GO! fabric cutter and GO! Qube dies, you have the perfect mixture of creativity and precision! We released the first Block Library in October, and the reception has been so welcoming. If you missed it, you can read more about the GO! Qube Mix & Match, Plus Corners and Angles HERE! Without further ado, let me introduce you to each of the NEW Block Libraries now available.   1 – Fabulous Four

EQ recently launched a software add-on that lets those of you who have an AccuQuilt cutter to add blocks to EQ that will match the AccuQuilt cutter shapes.  But, if you don’t have an AccuQuilt cutter, you can still use the blocks.  The blocks are square by default, but you can change the shapes of the blocks by using a different quilt layout setting.  You will still get the cutting directions in the EQ8 program, but you can not use the AccuQuilt cutter if you change the shape of the square block.  Let’s play with this concept to see what you can create using the AccuQuilt blocks add-on. Open your EQ8 program and create a new project named ‘Playing with AccuQuilt Blocks’.  You will see the name of the project at the top of the screen. If you have downloaded the new AccuQuilt Blocks from the EQ website, you will

As you may know EQ is making a quilt! We’ve hired some new employees lately so we wanted to make sure everyone knows how to sew and understands the process of quilting. We do have a lot of quilters on staff but not everyone…yet You can follow along with our Sew-Along so you can get to know the EQ staff better and see our blocks. If you’d like to sew along and get more details about the project, check them out here. This month we’re featuring me (Heidi)! I’ve worked at EQ for over 20 years, and it was a long time in the making. When I was about 8 my mom signed me up for a kid’s quilting class at a local quilt shop. One of the teachers was Margaret, who also worked at EQ, at the time. My mom got to talking to Margaret about EQ and after

Thanks to everyone for participating in last month’s design challenge! Even though everyone used the same fabric collection, the quilts were all so unique! Be sure to view all entries here. Winners Two winners were selected by the Benartex team! Congratulations to…. Winner 1: LaTawnia R Porter Winner 2: Julie Molitor 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 Cali & Co. from Moda is November’s Fabric of the Month! Download the collection and enter our design challenge for another chance to win some fabric!