Electric Quilt

Importing Fabric Into EQ

February 6, 2012

My quilts are always designed in EQ and mostly I use fabrics already in the EQ libraries that are similar to the fabrics I intend to use.  Since so much of what I use is tone on tone, it’s real easy to get a close red or a close blue but for the Palette Challenge, [...]

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Getting There in EQ

January 12, 2012

When I post a design that I’ve come up with in EQ, chances are I’ve had about 30 or more variations.  There are always little tweaks that can be done to improve the design and what one thinks is a great improvement, someone else might not see as an improvement at all.  When I show [...]

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Quilt Along with the January QOV Design

January 12, 2012

It is time for a Quilt-Along! Without a doubt, there’ll never be a time when everyone can do it so, if you can — great and if you can’t . . there’ll be others. Here’s what I can tell you now: Instructions will be posted beginning Monday, January 23.  I will post instructions on Mondays, [...]

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Auction Quilt Needed

December 28, 2011

Several weeks ago while talking to a friend here, I learned that they have a foundation to help underprivileged children.  I’m not sure of all the details but they told me some of the help they provide and they have an auction in the spring.  They’ve done some very nice things for us recently so [...]

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More EQ Doodles

June 7, 2011

To thank the blog readers for their generosity in the Joplin efforts, I wanted to design a quilt and do a quilt-along for any who want to do it with me — kind of a “thank you” gift to all the blog readers.  I’ve been playing with Electric Quilt and coming up with designs and [...]

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The Tweaked Design

June 4, 2011

It took a lot of comments before someone (Patti) was thinking the way I think: on #2 there is more equal background to color and seems to fight my eye, also you will need to match up all of those points to the alternating block which will take more time and effort — not that [...]

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