Behind the Mouse: The Electric Quilt Blog

        The first new EQ8 Block Library for AccuQuilt is here!  It is the AccuQuilt GO! Qube® Mix & Match Plus Corners and Angles. Combining Electric Quilt® software with your AccuQuilt® GO! fabric cutter and GO! Qube dies provides the perfect mixture of creativity and precision!   This block library contains 216 quilt blocks originally published in the AccuQuilt GO! Qube System Catalog. Designed to work with the GO! Qube Mix & Match set and Companion Corners and Angles, these blocks are now conveniently included in this EQ8 library of blocks. They are so easy to use – the Blocks install right into your EQ8 Block library!   AccuQuilt add-ons for EQ8 are compatible with GO! Qubes of ANY size! Finished block sizes will match the GO! Qube size you use. The important part is how you set up the block size in your layout when designing your quilt to

EQ has a few new faces around the office so we decided to make a quilt! This way we know everyone understands how to sew and the process of quilting. We have a lot of quilters on staff but not everyone (yet!). We’re sharing the process with a Sew-Along so you can see our blocks and get to know the EQ staff! If you’d like to sew along and get more details about the project, check them out here. This month we’re featuring Janice! Janice has worked at EQ since August 2020, but  she was an EQ user long before she worked here! Janice works in product development and marketing. She handles bug reports and feature requests so if you have sent one of those in you have probably heard from her. One of Janice’s most recent projects was developing the Judy Martin Log Cabin add-on for EQ8. She is

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: Nine Patch Star Variation Where to find it: 01 Classic Pieced > Five Patch Design ideas to spark your creativity This first quilt is a 4 x 4 horizontal layout. The Nine Patch Star Variation block is set in the four corners of the layout on Layer 1. The fifth block is set on Layer 2 so it could be centered on the quilt top. The rest of the layout is filled with a half version of the block. I drew a diagonal line through the block on the Block Worktable and deleted the lines

Have you seen the gorgeous entries submitted to the Willoughby design challenge?! You can browse them all here. Thanks to everyone for participating! Winner One winner was selected by the Maywood Maker team! Congratulations to…. Winner: Marlu E Allan 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 Decades Jazz Age by Mary Fons for Benartex is October’s Fabric of the Month! Download the collection and enter our design challenge for another chance to win some fabric!

          I am so excited to introduce a new project with Electric Quilt, AccuQuilt, and Lori Miller Designs! Since so many quilters have enjoyed my EQ8 Add-ons for AccuQuilt, the Electric Quilt Company and AccuQuilt have partnered with me to revamp my block downloads and make them official EQ products sold on both of their websites! If you are new to my EQ8 Add-ons for Accuquilt, let me share a little about them. Back in 2019 when I first started this adventure, I just wanted to have my own library of blocks in EQ8 that could be easily cut out with AccuQuilt dies. I loved designing my own quilts and EQ8 made it so helpful to see my fabric choices.  When I combined my quilt designs with the accuracy and time saving of cutting out the pieces with my AccuQuilt die cutting machine and dies, I

Peanut butter & jelly, Bert & Ernie, movies & popcorn… Some things are just better together. Like EQ8 and AccuQuilt®! The Electric Quilt Company and AccuQuilt are happy to announce your favorite pair of quilting tools are now even easier to use together! EQ8 and AccuQuilt GO! Qube® dies are coming together to bring quilters an exciting new series of add-on products, making it more streamlined to design quilts that can be cut using your favorite dies. Six AccuQuilt GO! Qube add-on products for EQ8 software will be released in 2024. The first add-on, AccuQuilt GO! Qube: Mix & Match, Plus Corners and Angles, will be released in just a few weeks on October 21. One lucky winner will get their hands on this new add-on early! More details about the giveaway below. The AccuQuilt GO! Qube: Mix & Match, Plus Corners and Angles add-on features all 216 blocks designed

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