October 2009 Challenge: A Quilt for EQ the Mouse! (Page 1)

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St. Charles, Illinois, USA

Designed for September, 2009 clubEQ challenge: A Quilt for EQ the Mouse!

For best effect, view this quilt with the block and patch outlines turned off.

The upper left block is the base of the quilt. All other blocks are placed on Layer 2 as a virtual "border." All holes are really holes, not appliques.

St. Charles, Illinois USA

Designed for September, 2009 clubEQ challenge: A Quilt for EQ the Mouse!

EQ's best friend is Jean Claude, who is French. Jean Claude wishes his friend, "Sleep well; good night; sweet dreams."

Some cat and mouse fun, with the emphasis on fun. Plenty of cheese for EQ the Mouse and Jean Claude.

The border was done in BGSU colors to help Jean Claude feel at home when he visits EQ the Mouse.

Love and Hugs to them both.

In my mind's eye I see EQ the Mouse all snuggled up in this tiny quilt made of soft lush velour after playing all day near Penny's desk at the shop.

Texas

Rotterdam
the Netherlands

Rotterdam
the Netherlands

Sheboygan, Wi.

The mice are my design from a baby quilt I designed and made, based on a children's book I read to my Granddaughter years ago.
I thought the EQ mouse would have photos of his favorite people near him

© Daphne Stewart

I had great fun drawing these mice. This one is named Quentin.

The background block is 'Alabama Variation' and it's "quilted" with four overlapping stencils 'Loop de Loop'. These were a September gift from EQ's Andrea.

This quilt measure 11" x 11".

Sunnyside, Washington

© Daphne Stewart

This is the first challenge quilt I've sent before Barb's example quilts were posted. I may be way off the mark!

I drew the mouse motif (this one's named Ellsworth) and the fpp letters, loosely based on the Showcard Gothic font. The blocks from EQ's library are Shoo Fly, Greek Square, and Diamond in the Square. None of the blocks are standard sizes (they measure 1.91" x 1.83" and 4.3" x 4.68", etc) but this doesn't matter since they're foundation/paper pieced.

This is a wall quilt measuring 11.5" x 8". If EQ the Mouse lives in a box behind Penny's computer monitor, I guess this quilt would hang behind her computer, too.

Sunnyside, Washington

A version of the split cube as another choice for EQ Mouse to have for his quilt to keep him warm.

Vancouver, WA

I have been playing with hollow cube blocks both in EQ6 and actually piecing in fabrics so thought that EQ Mouse might like to have a cube playhouse quilt to sleep under and keep him warm for the winter.

Vancouver, WA

Hi!
I hope yiu like this quilt made for you EQ the Mouse.I think it will look nice near Penny's PC?

Club EQ Challenge November 2009

Norway

I hope you like my cheesecake,made just for you and your friend.Much cheese and lots of cream too.I used some Chedar,Brie and a norwegian cheeseJarlsber and a lot of creemy cheese.Take care!!And I do hope you like the quilt for you too:)

Club EQ Challenge November 2009

Norway

Davenport, IA

I provided the cheese in the border so EQ would not be lured by any bait inadvertantly left on the trap.
I found the circle a challenge--finally went to the Alphabet Motifs and selected O.

EQ and his friends have gotten their tails in a tangle! Who's who? Which one is EQ?

I gave them a lovely cheese coloured background, I hear it's a favourite colour.

Such a cute little furry mouse - although it was difficult to find fabrics that didn't make him look like he was molting .. or worse, moldy.

EQ is under someone's desk ... he looked hungry so I gave him a stash of cheese cubes to munch on. And let his long tail run off the edge of the quilt.

from Taiwan

Of course mice figures are not "mine"!
The gift box and flowers too - they are from EQ library and I have adapted them specially for EQ the Mouse!

I hope that there are no more Copyright troubles with Mickey Mouse and Speedy Gonzales - they are much older than EQ the Mouse:
First Speedy Gonzales, the fastest Mouse in all Mexico, debuted 1953 in Warner Bros' cartoon "Cat-Tails for Two", directed by Robert McKimson. It was animated in 1952, therefore it is as old as me!
But Mickey Mouse is much older!!! The Walt Disney Company celebrates his birth as November 18, 1928 upon the release of "Steamboat Willie", first Disney animated cartoon with synchronized sound.

Riegelsberg, Germany

This quilt combines the French Star and the Ohio Star to honour Jean Claude and EQ the Mouse. The motif in the middle is from the block library and is called Mouse in the Mirror for our vain little mouse. The Fans in the setting triangles are all the Facebook fans. The border corners are French Knots. Of course the colours are self explanatory.

Bracebridge ON Canada

My name is Elke Kern. I come from Germany and this is my first finished design in EQ6. I think, that the mouse is dreaming for cheese. But to find the cheese, she hat to go through the labyrinth!

Living in Houston, Texas -- home of the greatest Quilt Festival ever!

I used the jack-o-lantern block and the broom and hat of a block witch present in the EQ library. I drew the mouse; and this could be a quilt for the Halloween season for EQ the mouse!
Cheers from Switzerland

As EQ the mouse has a lot of friends from all around the world, this could be a quilt that remind him the flags from the different countries. i guess 1 quilt will not be enough! The heart is from the EQ6 library.
Cheers

Grand Junction, CO

EQ Mouse needs a disguise to keep the cats away so he can feel safe while sleeping. Cats don't like water, so "Water Disguise" it is!

They say you should not eat cheese before you go to bed because it gives you nightmares, but I'm sure this would not apply to EQ the Mouse. I imagine he would love to snuggle down under a "cheese quilt".

Guildford, England

I'm sure EQ Mouse is a very modern fellow and would want something "edgy" to sleep under, so I'm made him a slightly masculine, graphic quilt.

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Our little friend looks totally confused with his french lesson from Jean Claude! You can almost see him shrugging his shoulders as he repeatrs the title of his little quilt. "I don't know"!

Not only is he learning the french words for some of his favorite things ... like cheese, computers and Art History, he's also hearing words we use all the time like fabric, quilts, drawing and designing; plus, of course family and friends.

The border came straight out of Auto Borders, but it seems to really represent his thoughts chasing themselves round and round as he struggles to learn his friend's language. Of course, this is done in Bowling Greens U's schools colors!

Penny says that EQ is quite vain, but it took soom searching to find a picture of him on the website. After the Mouse Hunt last year, he seems to have all but disappeared; but that was where I found a picture I used to draw out little friend!

This is a do-able little quilt, with just a little easy applique, I would embroider the words.

My apologies to our French speaking friends, I used Babblefish.com to translate the phrases from English to French and I know, sometimes things do get lost in translation!

Haymarket, VA

ClubEQ September 2009 Gray EQ Mouse has a party with brown Jean Claude and their lady friends. Holey cheese is a delight. 12 x 12

This is designed to be about 6x8" which seems about right for our favorite mouse. I like the scrappy look and it could actually be pieced, with the letters appliqued.

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