INTERVIEW WITH TOBY LISCHKO
Want to know how designers hook up with magazines and fabric companies? Toby Lischko tells us exactly how she did it, and how her designing led to her new book.
FREE EQ6 PROJECTS FROM ANGIE PADILLA
Angie enjoyed the clubEQ "Inspired by a Beverage" challenge so much she couldn't stop designing. You can download EQ6 projects for coffee, lemonade and wine projects here. You can learn to draw from Angie – she's the author of EQ6 Applique Drawing and designer behind My Dream House.
 FREE SNOWFLAKE FOUNDATION FROM WERNER TAESLER
Let it snow inside by making this EQ-designed Snowflake block from German designer Werner Taesler. He shares his PDF pattern for a 6-sided flake here.
Or, if spring is calling, visit Werner's site for free Block of the Month patterns:
www.minipatch-online.de
 FREE BALTIMORE BLISS BOM STARTING NOW
EQ6-designer Sindy Rodenmayer will have a beautiful new appliqué block pattern for you each month in her 2009 BOM. Visit her site and click the February block to get the PDF for February. Get 'em while they're up, because these block patterns don't stay up all year.
www.fatcatpatterns.com
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.
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.
DOWNLOAD MORE FREE FABRIC
This month's download is "Primarily Flowers". 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 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!
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. February's challenge is almost over - submit your hexagon quilt now. March's challenge will be using the "Wildwood" fabric collection by Erin McMorris.
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KALEIDOSCOPE COLLECTOR'S CLUB
You're in for a treat. Andrea shows you how to set up the Congregation of Poppies quilt, featured this month in Quilters Newsletter in EQ6 so you can play with your own fabric choices. It's Month 5 of her 12-month activity club for owners of Kaleidoscope Collection CD.
If you're just starting, try the previous lessons.
Carol Clasper blogged about finishing Andrea's Lesson 4, and has an EQ6 Kaleidoscope project you can download.
ONLINE CLASSES FROM RANAE MERRILL
RaNae Merrill, profiled in an earlier newsletter is offering online classes. All RaNae's classes have an EQ section participants can register for, which will explain things specifically in terms of how to do them in EQ.
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
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
* Interview with Barb Vlack
* Sneak peek at our new Amy Butler Softwares program. |
