2011 - December Newsletter |
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HOLIDAY WISHES
 We send our warmest Happy Holiday wishes to all of you from your friends at EQ: Dean, Andrea, Ann, Heidi, Jan, Jenny, Katie, Linda, Margaret, Matthew, Penny, Sara, and Sarah
Catch EQ's Penny McMorris as a guest on Pat Sloan's radio show on December 12th.
We've added tons of NEW patterns to My EQ Boutique! Here are just a few. No software needed except the free downloadable pattern printer that lets you print in any size.
Now ready: The New York Beauty Border! Karen's New York Beauty and McCommas Beauty (easy, foundation-pieceable, one-block repeat. Stunning results!) are also available at MyEQBoutique.com.
Congratulations to M'liss Rae Hawley and Michele Scott. Both have new books out. M'Liss's Precut Quilts (C & T Publishing) features EQ-designed quilts cut from fat quarters, charm squares and strips. Michele's Bobbin Quiltin'& Fusin Fun shows tons of ways to embellish fused quilts with free-motion quilting using fun threads. Kudos, EQ ladies!
Judy's popular Virtual Quilter blog features a new quilt design EVERY day. This week marks quilt #2000 for this inventive designer! Congratulations and thanks, Judy, for this well-loved continual daily inspiration.
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Start your new year off designing! Linda Franz tells us about a new contest for EQ users involving Inklingo that starts January 1. 
Last chance to win a BOM prize! Get the pattern on our blog. Sew the block. Send us a photo of the sewn block. Anyone can enter (even if you don't own EQ!). A new prize each month. One entry per person/per month. Submitted photos will be added to the blog in a Finished Blocks post with your name, and entered in our monthly contest. The December prize is: Quiltmaker Quilting Designs, Volume 1.
When you put your monthly EQ blocks together, send us a pic. and write a bit about your BOM quilt. We're dying to brag about you!
The November Novelty (block #11) winner was: JoAnn Korzenko. JoAnn wins a copy of Sue Spargo: Folk Art Dreams CD.
Donna's entry, randomly selected from all correct answers, wins for her correct guess that the first BlockBase manual (green) was published in 1995. She wins a Vol 5 Quiltmaker Quilting Designs CD.
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Help us choose the perfect gift for vain and picky little EQ the Mouse. We'll give a copy of 
Check out the "EQ Quilt Gallery." Some magazine editors have and have actually contacted designers right out of the Gallery.
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A quick way to make special paper to wrap small special gifts. View the PDF lesson.
For this lesson, we've made the gift tag, you just print it. Download the free Holiday Gift Tags project to do the lesson.
Download the EQ6 Project
Check out Reeze's blog for a new EQ7 Tutorial. It appeared on “Stash Manicure – Sew We Quilt” on November 21 and is now housed on her blog under tutorials. Great illustrated lesson!
Her Sweet Lullaby Quilt tutorial and her Breast Cancer Awareness block/quilt tutorial are great ways to learn new tricks in EQ7.
There MAY still be a few spots on this cruise! Learn EQ7 while sailing on a 14 day Quilt 'n Cruise Adventure to Hawaii. Barb Vlack will teach a 5-day hands-on EQ Academy for EQ7. See class schedule here and sign up for in-depth EQ7 classes from a master.
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With today's unpredictable weather, it could snow ANYWHERE!
Jazz up your holiday quilt border with some twinkling lights.
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This month's download is called Mostly Grays! 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.
Click here for full directions for each.
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- Too busy to even think. ;-)
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