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EQ Design Challenge & Giveaway – Decades Jazz Age

Posted 10-01-2024 by Olivia | Posted in: Contests

This contest is now closed. Winners will be announced soon! Happy fall y’all! We’re back with October’s Fabric of the Month, Decades Jazz Age by Mary Fons for Benartex! Much has changed since the 1920s: we’ve gone from Model Ts to electric cars, from telegrams to texts. Quiltmakers, however, remain the same: we love color, fabric, and great quilts. Mary Fons’s Decades line draws inspiration from historical quilts and textiles. Her debut collection, Jazz Age, focuses on the 1920s. The small-scale prints and bold colors in the Jazz Age collection make these fabrics perfect for use in applique, as blenders, or as textured solids. Mary’s love of quilt history and off-beat quilts comes to life in this fresh and unique collection. A bundle of these fabrics will be given away to two lucky winners! Submit your EQ design featuring Decades Jazz Age below…all instructions and contest details are in this post. Good luck! To

Deep Dive – Top 5!

Posted 09-19-2024 by Diane | Posted in: EQ8 New Products

EQ8 Deep Dive – Top 5 Released at the beginning of last month and featured in both of our August newsletters, we wanted to take a closer look, or dare we say a deeper dive ( ), into our new EQ8 Deep Dive: Fabrics, Panels, and Photos booklet! We created this 40-page, fully illustrated comprehensive guide based on requests from you, our incredible EQ users! The booklet will give you all the steps and tips needed to import and see your fabrics, panels, and photos in your quilts before you ever take out your scissors. Here we’re going to highlight the top 5 features explained in this wonderful new booklet! Without further ado, you’ll learn how to… 1. Take a picture of and import fabrics from your own stash! That’s right, you can take a picture of your stash with any camera and import it into EQ8 so you can see exactly what

LESSONS WITH YVONNE–Back To School

Posted 09-15-2024 by Yvonne | Posted in: EQ8 EQ8 Lessons with Yvonne Favorite Posts

September means back to school time in most areas.  As a very young child, I recall looking forward to see how the teacher decorated the classroom to enhance learning principles.  Why not make a small wall hanging quilt to add to the classroom decor for the teacher to display? Open your EQ8 and name a new project ‘Back to School’.  Click OK at the bottom of the project helper box to save your new project. The project name should now appear at the top of your screen. At the top of the screen click on LIBRARIES>Block Library In the Block Libraries box, click on ‘search>>by notecard’.  A secondary box will open. In the notecard box, type in the word ‘school’ and then click on the word ‘search’ at the bottom of the box. All the different types of blocks that are built into EQ8 libraries will come up for you

Stitch & Share EQ Sew-Along: Featuring Christine!

Posted 09-15-2024 by Heidi | Posted in: Just Because More for EQers Sew Alongs Stitch & Share

EQ is making a quilt! We’ve got some new employees and want to ensure everyone knows how to sew and understands quilting. (And maybe make a few new quilters!) We decided to do a Sew-Along so you can see our blocks and get to know us all better. Each month, we’re featuring one staff member and their block in the quilt. (Perfect since we have 12 staff members!) If you’d like to sew along and get more details about the project, check them out here. This month we’re featuring Christine! Christine has worked at EQ for 11 years. She started as a graphic-design intern, hired to typeset the EQ7 Applique Drawing book. Now, she’s the Director of Marketing! Christine says, “I like a lot of things about working at EQ, but my favorite is how we all work together to do big things for quilters and the quilting industry. It’s

EQ8 Block Spotlight: Cross 9

Posted 09-10-2024 by Jenny | Posted in: EQ8 Block Spotlight

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: Cross 9 Where to find it: 02 Contemporary Pieced > Cross Variations Design ideas to spark your creativity My first quilt is a simple 4 x 4 horizontal layout. I thought the large squares in the corners of the block could use some extra interest, so I used a directional fabric in those patches and rotated using the Rotate Fabric tool. The fabric used in this design is from the Maeve collection by Crystal Manning for Moda. It’s available in the newest Stash add-on. For my second quilt design, I choose to edit the block

Delightful Dreams – Winners Announced!

Posted 09-04-2024 by Olivia | Posted in: Congratulations

Thank you to everyone who participated in last month’s design challenge! Delightful Dreams is a very special collection, and we really appreciate the response we’ve gotten. Be sure to see all the entries to the challenge here. As a reminder, 50% of the proceeds from this collection will be donated to Quilts for Kids, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing patchwork quilts to kids in need of comfort. Learn more here. Winners Three winners were selected! Congratulations to…. Winner 1 (QT Fabrics’ Pick): Cynthia Concha Winner 2 (QT Fabrics’ Pick): Maggie Naawu Winner 3 (Random Pick): Marcia Jeanne Jensen A Note from QT Fabrics “Once again – so many great quilts to choose from here! We are always impressed by the range of designs Electric Quilt users produce.” – QT Fabrics 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 Willoughby by Maywood Studio is September’s

EQ Design Challenge & Giveaway – Willoughby

Posted 09-01-2024 by Olivia | Posted in: Contests

This contest is now closed. Winner will be announced soon! While we’re sad summer is coming to an end, we’re so happy to share these beautiful fabrics! Willoughby from Maywood Studio is September’s Fabric of the Month! Willoughby is influenced by the Arts & Crafts movement, where artists and designers emphasized nature in the decorative arts. Stylized florals and leaf-focused designs mix with geometric patterns to create traditional designs with a modern twist. The deep blues, creamy neutrals, and pop of yellow work together for projects that complement modern home décor! A bundle of these fabrics will be given away to one lucky winner! Submit your EQ design featuring Willoughby 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

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