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!
Quilting is My Voice – Winners Announced!
Posted 03-05-2024 by Olivia | Posted in: Congratulations
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
APQ Spring Quilt Along
Posted 02-22-2024 by Christine | Posted in: Downloads More for EQers
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!
Stitch & Share EQ Sew-Along: Featuring Diane!
Posted 02-15-2024 by Heidi | Posted in: EQ8 Just Because Sew Alongs Stitch & Share
With the addition of some new employees to our team, we hosted another EQ sewing day in January, so everyone can learn to quilt! Our talented teacher, Jenny, guided us through the process. We’re making a quilt using color schemes chosen through a contest. Each month, we’ll feature one staff member and their block in the quilt. If you’d like to sew along and get more details about the project, check them out here. This month we’re featuring Diane! Diane leads the Customer Service team, is a member of the Marketing team, and does the majority of accounting. She enjoys cultivating relationships with designers and others in the quilting industry and is fantastic at helping wherever and whenever needed elsewhere. Diane is also great at solving problems and figuring out ways to expose the wonderful EQ products to everyone. Diane says, she loves “hearing or reading the excitement in user’s
EQ8 Block Spotlight: Topeka Rose
Posted 02-10-2024 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: Topeka Rose Where to find it: 04 Classic Applique > Roses Design ideas to spark your creativity I went with a spring palette and more traditional design for my first quilt. The fabric collection is Kindred by 1canoe2 for Moda. Here’s how to download a manufacturer’s fabrics for use in EQ8. I started by using Serendipity > Frame Block to add a cornerstone frame to the Topeka Rose block. The stars are created in the wide sashing between the blocks. I used the Even Star Sash 1 block from the 10 Sashing > Star Sashing section
Cotton Tails – Winners Announced!
Posted 02-08-2024 by Olivia | Posted in: Congratulations
Thank you to everyone who participated in last month’s design challenge! Check out all the wonderful quilt designs we received here! Winners Three winners were selected, one by the QT Fabrics team and the other two were chosen randomly. Congratulations to…. Winner 1 (QT Fabrics’ Pick): Jeanne A Gardner Winner 2 (Random Pick): Janice Berg Winner 3 (Random Pick): Pamela Haley A Note from QT Fabrics “There were so many wonderful, creative designs to consider, choosing one winner was not easy. We looked for a balanced, distinctive design that made good use of the fabrics in the Cotton Tails group. The design by Jeanne A. Gardner fit the bill with an on-point set that focuses attention on the printed rabbit blocks. The background print changes from top to bottom of the quilt add extra interest without detracting from the blocks. Well done, Jeanne! Thank you to all who participated.” – QT Fabrics team Honorable