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 KALEIDOSCOPE COLLECTOR'S CLUB
Andrea presents Month 4 of her 12-month activity club for owners of Kaleidoscope Collection CD. Follow along with Part 2 of "Foundation Fundamentals."
If you’re just starting with the Kaleidoscope Collection, don't forget to try all the lessons.
EQ CLUBS: CLUB LEADERS TELL ALL
Thinking of starting an EQ Club? Don’t reinvent this wheel. Learn what works for experienced club leaders Katrina Hamer, Toby Lischko & Yvonne Menear.
WANT TO START YOUR OWN EQ CLUB?
Download our "Planning an EQ Club" PDF file. See what you need to get started, how to organize and get topic ideas. The Mystery Quilt would make a great club project.
CONTEST WINNERS!
Congratulations to the winners of our "Who's Your Mama?" contest matching EQ babies with EQ moms. We had no idea how hard this would be... we had only 2 winners:
Linnea Egbert
Neva Carlson
We'll ease up in future contests. Thanks to all who entered!
Wondering who's who?
OBAMA FABRIC FOR PRINTING
See how our favorite quilt historian, Barbara Brackman, re-designed an old commemorative fabric, creating new Obama fabric you can print out for free. Visit her site then scroll down to see her post about “Happy Inauguration Week.” She prints on our EQ Printables fabric.
ASK EQ THE MOUSE!
Long-time mascot, EQ the Mouse, invites you to submit EQ questions for his column "Ask EQ." Email questions to Tech Support. Put "Ask EQ" in the subject line. He'll answer your question, and perhaps you'll make his monthly Q & A column. Read it here.
PREVIOUS MYSTERY QUILT STORIES AND LESSONS
Learn EQ5 or EQ6 by working through our 2 different Mystery Quilt series:
If you are just joining us, start here with Skylights Episode 1 and Skylights Lesson 1 and work through these 12 lessons and episodes.
Then work through the EQuinox mystery, starting with EQuinox Episode 1 and EQuinox Lesson 1.
Show us your quilts! Have you made one of our Mystery quilts? We want to see your quilt or top. Email us a photo and we’ll post it in our mystery gallery. See some of the Skylight mystery quilts here.
DOWNLOAD MORE FREE FABRIC
This month's download is "Seaside". Choose either to download a Library file or a Project file. Be sure to follow the easy steps provided. Then vote for next month's fabric.
NEW MODA FABS AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD
Moda has new fabrics available to download as individual jpeg files, ready for EQ6. Visit Moda's site, click any brown dot in front of a fabric name, download to your computer (remember where it goes), then go to LIBRARIES > Fabric Library > Import > From Image Files and import the fabric. Add the fabric to your Sketchbook and use it, or save the fabric in My Library (see pages 143 and 144 in the EQ6 User Manual) to use in future projects. If you need complete steps, EQ the Mouse addresses them in one of his Ask EQ columns.
ClubEQ REMINDER
ClubEQ is a free monthly challenge organized by EQ-author, Barb Vlack. To participate, send in a project with 1-2 quilts to penny@electricquilt.com that follow the challenge theme and ClubEQ rules. Imagine getting 50 to 100 quilts for just submitting one.
VISIT OUR BLOG
New EQ-related blog topics are added almost daily. Let us know if you post EQ stuff on *your* blog so we can link. Also, send us info about what EQ stuff you're up to. We love to brag about you! Send an email to penny@electricquilt.com and tell us your EQ news.
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 PLAY HOUSE WITH ANGIE PADILLA
Angie Padilla invites owners of her My Dream House CD and EQ6 to "play house" with her. Visit her web site to see a new section she's started with ideas and lessons using the applique furniture and house layouts included on the My Dream House CD.
FREE SPIRAL BLOCK NECK CADDY PATTERN FROM RANAE MERRILL
Last October we profiled designer RaNae Merrill, author of Simply Amazing Spiral Quilts, about her book and CD which contains EQ6 projects. RaNae offers you the free “neck caddy” pattern PDF file she made for stores at Quilt Market this fall. (The file is pretty big, so right-click it and choose Save As or Save Target As.)
Visit RaNae’s site.
WREATHMAKER TUTORIAL FROM GEORGETA GRAMA
Last June we blogged about Georgeta Grama's beautiful shadow trapunto quilts. Now she's made a tutorial for other EQ users, showing how she makes her dazzling wreath designs. Try it out!
NEW CONNECTING THREADS FABS AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD
Connecting Threads has made their own fabric collections available especially for EQ6 users! Find the collections here, click a collection to find the download icon. Each download gives you a zipped file containing a collection of fabric, plus instructions for copying them right into My Library. No need for linking!
EQ FORUMS
The new EQ Forums are up! Visit the EQ Forums and register, then you can ask questions and get answers from EQ staff, authors and other EQ users right on the EQ web site.
FREE QUILTED CALENDAR DESKTOPS
Carolyn Laukkonen offers you a series of quilted calendar desktops to choose from. Choose a favorite, or switch them monthly. Download Carolyn Laukkonen's quilted desktop onto your computer desktop. Find complete instructions on her site. While there, click her site map to find the EQ projects she shares.
Or check out the beautiful calendars Diane Anderson designs just for you.
DO YOU HAVE FREE EQ PROJECTS OR PATTERNS TO SHARE ON YOUR WEB SITE?
Let us know and we'll list you on the Project Sharing page. Just email our webmaster with the necessary links and information and ask for your site to be considered for inclusion on that page.
MAIL-LIST FOR MAC EQ-ERS
Are you running your EQ on a Mac? Then you may want to subscribe to the free EQonMacs Yahoo group, run by Sheila Williams. For more information, contact Sheila at Sheila@SheilaWilliams.com.
ARE YOU TEACHING EQ?
If you are teaching EQ classes, don't forget to let our webmaster know the date, time and location of your classes so we can list them on our web site.
EQ CLASSES
Want a hands-on EQ class? See who's teaching, what's being taught, and where.
FREE VIEWERS
Want to see a self-running show of your own EQ projects? Download a free project viewer:
Download "EQ6 Show" if you have EQ6. It will show any EQ3, EQ4, EQ5 and EQ6 projects you've made.
Download "EQ5 Show" if you only have EQ5. It will show any EQ3, EQ4 & EQ5 projects you have made.
FREE EQ6 WEB BUTTONS
Show your EQ spirit by adding an EQ6 button to your web site!
TECH SUPPORT
A reminder that you can see answers to our most Frequently Asked Questions right on the EQ web site. See EQ6 questions here. See EQ5 questions here.
EQ6 UPDATE
If you own EQ6, download and install the free EQ6 Update which makes EQ6 run faster and smarter. You'll know you're updated if in EQ6 you click HELP > About EQ6 and see "Build 2."
COMING NEXT MONTH
* An interview with designer Toby Lischko about her new book. |
