My Market Day quilt was designed with your amazing program. I'm totally addicted to EQ!

How I designed it?  well...let's see....(man..you're making me think now, huh?) I generally do extreme spikey stuff, (you can see on my website) and had a big bare wall in my dining room.  I actually started by designing a carrot wall hanging, (which I've yet to make) <G> and showed it to my husband (my biggest critic).  he took one look and asked where the spikes were. <g> I showed him...and he was satisfied, but thought the carrots needed something.
So...I happened to get a farmers market magazine thingy and it had all these great veggies and fruit pix.  Voila!

I literally just started playing with different fruits and veggies and came up with these.  I didn't want them to look like photos, more abstract as it were...so that's how these were born.

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This is a lapquilt I designed, pieced and quilted for my mom for her 92nd birthday 2 years ago.  She used it alot, seems like it was always on her foot stool when we came to visit.  Just past her next birthday, her health was declining rapidly.  By then my husband and I had moved and built onto her house.  The last month or so of her life the quilt was always there, covering her, and it covered her as she left her home for the last time.  It's been almost a year since she left us - how appropriate that this particular challenge would come up so close to the anniversary of her death.  I'm so glad that I made this quilt for her. I submitted this quilt for the November 2009 Club EQ Challenge.

The centers of the blocks are fussy cuts of Minnesota things--pine trees, Lady Slippers, lily pads, pine cones, loons.  She lived her life amid pine trees, and at one time had the Pink and White Lady Slipper [the Minnesota State Flower] near her home.

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I designed this quilt “Fibro Flower” for a EQ challenge and made it in miniature with an Angelina fiber flower attached. I used some decorative stitches to quilt it.  It depicts a fibonacci sequence.

The sampler started with a block that I made for my quilt clubs' Christmas 16" block exchange. After I finally finished it, I couldn't part with it, LOL! I used the same fabrics to make the smaller blocks and put them around the feathered star in the center. I had done the star with scraps of fabric and had a tuff time finding more for the rest of the blocks. It turned out it was discontinued but I finally found a lady through the internet who had a couple of yards of it. I just love the little quilt and hate putting it away after Christmas.

I prepared it with my program EQ6. I was very satisfied with the aide. I am French but I live in Italy.

At a fabric store a couple weeks ago, I spied the fabric as soon as I entered. Drooled on it so had to buy it.

A dear friend had invited me for a weekend at her home, so I was trying to think of something for a little gift. I know she really likes handmade things, so I decide to share that fabric with her in the form of a table runner. I like stars and I wanted something that show off that focus fabric, so decided to work with the Tennessee Waltz quilt pattern. I played with some ideas and settled on the attached. I'm kinda lazy, so did not scan in my fabric, I just looked for something similar already in EQ.

It turned out, I wasn't able to make the trip, so I'll be putting the table runner in the mail to her. I do think she'll like it.

This quilt was made for my husband. When asked what design he would like to have he responded without hesitation.... Mariner's Compass!!! He selected the fabric on his own, using a "Samuel Adams - Boston Lager" coaster as a color guide. I think he's quite pleased with the result.

Thanks to you and everyone at EQ who made this quilt possible. Without EQ I would be making the same old patterns, with the same old fabrics, out of the same old magazines as everyone else.  This is definitely a lot more rewarding!!!!!! LOL

I was surfing through EQ's Block Library looking for a fun project to start. I got to the houses and thought "wow those are cool, wouldn't it be fun to draw little people sticking out of the windows?" Then common sense caught up with me when I thought of all those tiny little pieces and I decided a memory quilt would be just as creative. I printed the photos on printable fabric. I had Margaret make the house yellow, because a yellow house always seems happy to me. This quilt appeared on America Quilts Creatively (PBS), Friends in the Bee (quiltersnewsnetwork.com), and in the October 2004 Issue of McCall's Quilting Magazine.

This quilt was designed by me, for the February 2008 Challenge – Jelly Rolls.
It took 2 Jelly Rolls plus some additional scraps, because I wanted more contrast than I got with one Roll.

I have another quilt for the EQ gallery.  This one was also made for my daughter (the star rag quilt, #77 in the gallery, was for her, too), and it's a little more interesting than the rag quilt.  I call it "Cosmic Eye".

Ever since I read the interview with Deb Karasik in the EQ newsletter last spring, I've been really intrigued with this style of quilt.  I purchased the Quilt Mavens book, and have been playing in EQ with placing "spikey" blocks in different settings.  Before I try sewing some of the more complicated designs that I've made, I decided I should make a small project.  Cosmic Eye is made by using a 2x2 Variable Blocks Setting, but only actually using 5 of the blocks in the setting. One of EQs Sun Compass blocks was set in the middle, and New York Beauty blocks were placed in the skewed blocks surrounding it.  By leaving out the outer arc on the New York Beauty blocks, I got the "eyeball" shape.

Hope you like it!