Check out this challenge from AccuQuilt and then enter your EQ7 designs!
Check out the AccuQuilt Challenge here.
Don’t yet have EQ7 to participate in the AccuQuilt Challenge? Well we are giving one away to help you out! So enter your name to win an EQ7 by 9am on Tuesday, September 7th.
To enter send an email to sarahshriver@electricquilt.com
Subject: AccuQuilt and EQ7
INCLUDE YOUR:
Full Name
Address
Phone Number
One randomly selected winner will receive an EQ7 so you can enter in the AccuQuilt Contest. Good Luck! Remember the contest ends on Tuesday, September 7th at 9am. We know it’s short but we want you to get your EQ7 in time to participate in the AccuQuilt Challenge!
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By now you’ve noticed the new look on the EQ Blog, yeah!? What do you think? We are trying to provide you with all the connections and information you could ever need on EQ. But tell us if there is something you want to see on the new blog that would be helpful for you. We’ll do our best to incorporate all we can. So tell us what you think.
Have you heard of Google Reader yet? At least 295 of your have! Google Reader allows you to put all your favorite websites and blogs in one place! Keeping up with your favorite sites is as easy as checking your email. Go to Google Reader and subscribe to all your favorite EQ sites. You’ll be up-to-date on all the EQ happenings, contests, and information.
Visit Google Reader and click on the add button and type in http://www.doyoueq.com/blog/
Other blogs and sites with fun EQ and quilting info:
SewCalGal: http://sewcalgal.blogspot.com/
The Virtual Quilter: http://virtualquilter.wordpress.com/
Patchwork Times: http://www.patchworktimes.com/
Do you have EQ related blogs that you love to follow? Post them here for others to subscribe to as well!
Janet Quam did a really fun EQ quilt design series on “what’s in my purse”. The designs were based off of things she carried or found in her purse. Wow, couldn’t all women have some interesting quilt designs with this strategy!? Below are two of Janet’s quilts; “Sunflower Seeds” and “Skiver”. She tells us a little bit about them:
Skiver: On the EQ7 image workspace, I traced a motif of Skiver’s picture which I had in my purse. Then I drew motifs for the flowers.
Skiver, born June 3, 2010, is our new purebred Freisian colt. He loves to attack tall weeds – kicking, stomping, chewing, hitting with his head – until all is conquered. He grew 7 inches taller in one month.
Sunflower Seeds: I had a packet of sunflower seeds in my purse that I bought at the co-op. Can you believe that I didn’t even get them planted? Must be because of working with the new EQ7.
Thank you so much for sharing your designs with us, Janet!
I can’t tell you how much I love this quilt! Designed in EQ by Dodi Poulsen, this Sweet Cherry Pie quilt looks good enough to eat. It was featured in The Quilter magazine, September issue where you can also find all the instructions on how to make this beautiful quilt.
Dodi and her business partner and sister Heidi are quilters, designers, and authors! They design using EQ and everything they create it divine. Check out their website, Two Sister’s At Quilt Hollow, where you can view and purchase her patterns. They are all so adorable and they seem to all be named after food – which is really making me hungry.
Appropriately, Dodi and Heidi recently released a new book called Have your Cake and Eat it Too! It’s a book of patterns with recipes. Now what could be better than that!?
With the addition of the EQ7 Image Worktable you are now able to edit and manipulate images right in EQ7. The Image Worktable is easy to use and you’ll be amazed at what you can do to an ordinary photo.
Watch a demo video on how the Image Worktable can enhance your photos now!
I personally first learned of Julie Herman when I saw the cover of the Summer issue of Quilts & More. Her gorgeous, contemporary quilt called Circle Around graces the cover! Congrats, Julie! Circle Around and many other of Julie’s quilts are designed in EQ. She’s also been published multiple times in McCall’s, Fons & Porter, and Quiltmaker. Check out more of her work on her blog, Jaybird Quilts.
Julie talks to me about why she loves EQ:
“My designs start on paper but then I take most of them into EQ I tweak them, play with scale, and so on. Then I make the quilt! One of my favorite things about EQ is how you can import fabric swatches.”
~ Julie Herman
Do you have an EQ designed quilt with your favorite pet or animal? Enter it in the Pets on Quilts show hosted by SewCalGal! The show features a “Designed in EQ6 and EQ7″ catagory so get your entries in. The deadline is August 21st.
Entries to this show must have a pet theme, either by design, fabric, or a picture of your pet on the quilt. For more info on the rules click here. View the show then vote on your favorites in each catagory. Winners will receive great prizes from the show sponsors.
EQ entries will receive a STASH Spring 2010 as well from Darlene so get your entries in now!
Remember the EQ7 Birthday Banner Download? Well it’s done! My mom finished the banner and we hung it last Saturday for the party. It looked perfect hanging there and I’m excited that we can use the banner for years to come. Thanks, Mom! (That’s my mom, Grandma, and the birthday girl below).
Two more EQ7 Demo Videos are now available on our website! Check them out.
Drawing Flying Geese
Creating Quilt Labels
In the Fall issue of Quilts & More magazine features an adorable project called Perk Me Up designed by Veronica Koh Eischeid. There are instructions and a template for making drink cup cozies! Just too fun! So I whipped up this design in EQ7 so you can download it, play with your own designs and colors, then print the template. You’ll have to check out the magazine to see all the instructions though.
With EQ7′s new Image Worktable you can personalize your cozy by adding loved ones faces, names, and fun family photos! You could make a set of beach cozies for a family vacation or make party favor gifts for a backyard BBQ.
Meet Erin Witt, a contemporary Quilt Designer and now author! She recently co-wrote a book, with her mother, for Kansas City Star Publishing. The book is titled Like Mother, Like Daughter: Two Generations of Quilt. In it, they each took a design challenge and gave it our personal spin — Erin’s of course leaning toward the contemporary!
So not only is this book stuffed with beautiful quilt ideas but each one of them was designed in EQ! What an honor.
Erin has been published in several magazines. Her quilts are darling and contemporary. One of our favorite of her quilts incorperates an EQ6 Kitten Design! This quitl is titled Meow! and was featured in Fons and Porter.
Download this EQ7 Birthday Banner! This banner is quick and easy to make. Just add your own colors, change the flower applique to something you like better and then marvel at how cute it looks hanging at the party!
I put together this cute birthday banner in EQ7. I wanted to make a banner for my daughter’s first birthday party coming up next week. I found a website that showed a similar banner but I wanted to make some edits so this is what I made in EQ7. I printed out the templates for the letters and one for the block.
Now, to be fair, my mom is the one who’s actually going to sew this for the party! Bless her heart… because I am not good with a needle and thread 
Better yet, add image of your party girl or boy to personalize the banner! With EQ7 new Image work table you can come up with so many neat ideas! Just print out the images onto EQ Printable Inkjet Fabric and get to sewing!
EVEN BETTER…. Just print all the blocks onto EQ Printable Inkjet Fabric, trim them out, then just sew them together with a ribbon across the top. I mean, could it get any easier?
This Flower Table Rug is the newest kit available from Sue Spargo! The kit works with your Sue Spargo: Folk-Art Dreams CD. I designed this table rug using blocks from my Folk art Dreams CD. It is made of hand dyed wool, fun cotton and finished with Heishi beads and a hand made label. Kit includes hand-dyed wool, cottons, beads, and batting to complete the project.Kit – Price $30.00
Have you signed up for the EQ Cruise yet? If not, do it now!
Register by August 15th and receive a bonus gift!
Sign up now to join us on a 10 Day / 9 Night Caribbean Cruise – January 28-February 6, 2011. You’ll have sun and EQ fun with top-notch teachers Barb Vlack & Mary Ellen Kranz and come home knowing more about EQ7 and with small sewn projects featuring your own cruise photos. BONUS: You’ll learn how easy it is to take better vacation (and quilt) photos with one of the quilt world’s best photographers and teachers: Gregory Case. See more details about this first-ever EQ cruise.
EQ Cruise Registration Form (Print, complete, and mail to the address on the form)
See the Tenitive Cruise Schedule
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