February 2000 Challenge: Let's Use Country Set! (Page 1)

Quilt 1

Quilt 2

Quilt 3

Quilt 4

Barb Vlack
Cybereal Quilting

Barb Vlack
V is for...

Rita Fuchs

Pat Tribbey

A collection of blocks that depict my love of quilting
and using the computer with my quilting and sewing. Most of the blocks
are from the EQ Library, though I have changed some to personalize them.
I used the Domino block from Classic Pieced/Ladies Art Company as the
template for setting the blocks in this format. I set the Domino block
in Layer 3 and then positioned blocks with that block as a guide.

St. Charles, Illinois

Four appliquéd blocks set in any layout but Horizontal,
just to be a bit different. I used a Tile block (that was inspired by
a bathroom floor somewhere) for the layout template for Country Set, set
it in Layer 3 and used it as a guide. Applique motifs from the EQ4 Library
were adapted to create new blocks. Of course, I have a fondness for the
letter V, and February is the month for Valentines, so I designed this
quilt with a romantic theme.

St. Charles, Illinois

Illinois

I had a dream that everyone in the "From our Friends" library in Sew Precise 1-2 sent me a block. Some were kind enough to send more! It must have been the pickles that I ate before retiring, cuz they sure used some wild colors! Fran, Diane, BarbV, Lynne and Linda, I hope you all enjoy what I did here in Country Set with your blocks...I also included "Pat's Palm" which is my block in the library. No, the quilt is not "tipsy"...It is the skewing of BarbV's "Undulating Geese" in the sashing.

South Florida

Quilt 5

Quilt 6

Quilt 7

Quilt 8

Marje Rhine

Brigitte Otto

Joann Korzenko

Dean Allen

This is my first real experience using
Country Setting. I don't think I used it in the traditional manner. I
wanted to play around with putting some blocks on point while others were
set horizontally and Country Setting worked well for this. I also experimented
with layering blocks to create the large motif background/border.

Boring, Oregon (a place, not a commentary)

Quilt on left is designed in EQ. Quilt on right is quilt made
in fabric, August 2000.

Germany

Thought I would use some of what we learned in the last few months; tracing
bitmaps, and using stencils.

Ohio

Santa Ana, California

Quilt 9

Quilt 10

Quilt 11

Quilt 12

Martha Clatterbuck

Susan Gatewood

Sandra Parrotto

Jo Ann Fall

The church needs a banner to take on outings; I've been putting
off designing something because I was afraid of country set. Thank you,
clubEQ! The design is based on an existing church banner.

Virginia

New Jersey

California

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Quilt 14

Quilt 15

Quilt 16

Jo Ann Fall

Joann Korzenko

Mieke Sprooten

Linda Remley

California

Ohio

What a coincidence! I designed a country set quilt because
I like country set so much and because I find it the easiest of all the
intricate chapters in Cookbook and EQ simplified and EQ magic!! None of
the blocks are original designs, I am a newbie after all, all the blocks
are in the EQ library except the 2 'Klokhuis' blocks wich are in the cookbook,
at least, the apple-core is. The fabrics are the standard fabrics (I'm
learning how to use Stash). The quilt design is my own.

The Netherlands

New York

Quilt 17

Quilt 18

Quilt 19

Quilt 20

Darlene Smith

Marilyn Tolhuizen

Marilyn Tolhuizen

Texas

I have had a very good time with this challenge. I have always been unable
to understand country set. This made it totally easy.

Indiana

I have had a very good time with this challenge. I have always been unable
to understand country set. This made it totally easy.

Indiana

 

Quilt 21

Quilt 22

Quilt 23

Quilt 24

Jo Moury

Jo Moury

Debbie Davies

Pauline Buckley

Virginia

Virginia

This is an original design for my brother, it would look great in his
living room, now to make the actual quilt... Always Good Intentions...

New Jersey

Here is my very first attempt at a Country Set (other than the tutorial in EQ4 Simplified), and I have done it with a Canadian theme, and called it "Country Set, Eh?"

Canada

Quilt 25

Quilt 26

Quilt 27

Quilt 28

Deborah Reed

Deborah Reed

Charlotte Kleiner

Ann Rudnicki

Kansas

Kansas

Manitoba, Canada

I haven't done the lesson is EQ Simplified yet for the Country Set,
I did with what knowledge I had gained from the other lessons.

Ohio

Quilt 29

Quilt 30

Quilt 31

Quilt 32

Cheryl Johnston

Nancy Anderson

Pat Philbrick

Sue Widdison

I got a start with my layout from the book "One of a Kind Quilts" by Judy Hopkins which has a lot of layouts for odd sized blocks, perfect for Country Set. while I got my start with the book, my final design doesn't resemble any of the ones in it, just a good jumping off point.

New Hampshire

I decided on a romantic theme for the month. I started
out using the blocks for the heart and for the flowers, but liked the
effect better when I used the motifs, on a plain block background. I couldn't
get rid of the lines around the quilting stencil rectangular blocks, but
liked the effect.

Roslyn, Pennsylvania

My quilt is titled Home Town Country Quilt. I live in a small rural town with my husband, kids and grandkids. The blocks in the quilt represent the town and some of the interests we have. The 3 tall pine trees are in front of our house. We enjoy flower and vegetable gardening as well as watching the birds and rabbits in our yard. Of course, I included the sewing machine and patches to show my love of quilting. The blocks in the corners were in the book "101 Full-size Quilt Blocks and Borders" published by Better Homes and Gardens. The rest are from the EQ4 block library.

This quilt was designed by Sue Widdison and LeAnn Halgren, Colorado, October 1999. It was designed as a group project for a friend diagnosed with lukemia (and undergoing bone marrow transplant). The large squares represent the states our friend has lived in (found in various quilting books, drawn on EasyDraw). EQ4 was indispensable. For each square, the person sewing was given a color printout, pattern (or paper piecing foundation), fabric, and thread. Since the patterns were printed the correct size & each person followed the color printout, we were assured that the sewn square would match the final project. Finally, the individual square designs were exported to another program and used to make a gift card for all to sign. The card also identified all the state squares for our friend. Design to delivery of the finished quilt was about 1 month. Nine women sewed squares, and an additonal 19 helped on the hand quilting.

Colorado