This quilt was designed to push the limits of my paper-piecing skills.  There are places where 16 seams intersect!  It helped me to learn more about EQ5, and quilt design in general.  I've gone on to design patterns for my company, Prairie Sky Quilting, that are all designed in EQ.
I owe many thanks to EQ for opening up so many possibilities for me!
Website: www.prairieskyquilting.com

You guys helped me with some design problems when I first started working on this quilt for church. Thanks to a little help from my friends (and EQ the Mouse) I got to present it to our pastor.

Star Flower Medallion was my creation from a challenge presented by Joen Wolfrom to a number of her quilting pals. I was included in this elite group because I was sewing quilts for her new book at the time. The challenge was to use only the colors in a nature photo she provided and design a quilt around it. The photo she sent to me was an intentionally blurred pic of a foxglove in full bloom. This 28" square quilt appears in Joen's book, "Visual Coloring". The center is turned-edge machine appliqué set on top of a diamond-pieced background. It is circled with a pink corded piping over a purple flange. The piano keys are fused and machine-stitched applique.  It is entirely quilted in the ditch around each applique piece.  I had planned to add more quilting on the background areas but never got around to it.

I designed and made the quilt myself using the Triple Stripe block from EQ5. The quilt has been made twice as the name suggests. First time was 4x5 blocks for my husband Don, then in 4x4 blocks for my grandson who was about 9 months old at the time the quilt for him (Jack) was finished. I used mostly Jan Mullenz flannel fabrics, quilting was mostly in the ditch, but the centres of the blocks and all the other squares made by joining the blocks have quilted motifs in them.

Once I had put all the blocks together I decided the border needed something! So the finished quilts have a striped piano key type blocks (I don't know if it has a name :-) ) My grandson is now almost 5 and still loves his quilt, it gets dragged around and loved heaps, unfortunately my husbands quilt was stolen during a break in at our home 18 months ago. I keep meaning to make another one for him but just haven't done it yet.

Jo Ferguson
Brisbane, Australia
http://joferguson.blogspot.com/

Most of the blocks used for appliqué are from Barbara Dieges' website http://www.bdieges.com/text/bdpw.html
I had fun with the Mariner's Compass block, choosing fabric to relate to the months of the year. The January wreath with hats and mittens was my own design. Communities in Bloom sponsored some prizes at our last quilt show, and my quilt was awarded 3rd place in the wall hanging division.

This little quilt came to be as a result of a question presented on Info-EQ, how do you draw a 7-pointed star block in EQ?.  The inquiry came from a quilter in Australia, whose country flag has a star with 7 points.  Ever the curious, I wanted to see if my idea would work (it did) and then wanted to try to make it, just to see if I could (I could).  Since I had no idea how to piece this, it is totally turned-edge appliqued, except for the outer and inner corner "bud" blocks (and the inner corner buds were pieced, but appliqued to the black background).  A corded piping next to the binding was added.  Made in 2005.

I embroidered the blocks as sample for a series of software classes I was teaching on the Pfaff 3D software.  The quilt was much more effective than just showing a bunch of embroidered squares. This is the first quilt I made which was designed first in EQ6.  It really helped being able to change the colors the the embroidery and to preview the embroidery placement.

I was teaching a class on curved paper piecing. I was using the book by Jodie Davis on Curved Paper Piecing. She didn't have a sample of all the different blocks and I wanted a sampler for my class sample. So I designed one. I designed this one and purchased the fabric I needed afterwards. Using the Fabric Yardage feature to decide how much fabric to buy.

You will notice that my design has an extra column in it. Even after designing the quilt in EQ6 I do a lot of design wall work.

Here's my quilt that I just finished sewing. It will go to the Upstairs Quilters in Elk Grove, CA on Friday.  I designed and sewed the quilt in EQ6. I'm hooked on Storm at Sea quilts for a while, I already have two more planned.  Great inspiration from Wendy Hathsom book, "A new light on Storm at Sea quilts". I recently finished Fran's classes on EQ6, it made a great big difference on designing things.

Here's a quilt I designed in EQ5 and made for my first grandchild in 2005. Her name is Io. I now have 4 MORE grandchildren who don't have quilts yet -- I am in deep trouble. The zowie fabrics in the quilt match Io's sparkly personality (and I am now used to her unusual name). The quilt won third prize in its category in the 2005 Asheville Quilt show -- my first and only quilt award.