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 Volume 6, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1999 View Other Floppy Gazettes |
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CONTENTS: Announcements - EQ4 Simplified - Mailbox - Fabric Scanning Tips - ClubEQ - Ask EQ - Show & Tell - Recognizing EQ Designers - Other Uses for EQ4 - Web Sightings. Our Talented Users Show and Tell Quilt Festival in Houston Lynne Harrill's Suburban Nights quilt won Second Place in the small traditional pieced quilts category at the IQA show at Quilt Festival in Houston, October 1998. And Lynne even credited EQ3 on her artist's statement, which was displayed with her quilt. Thanks and congratulations, Lynne! Lynne is from Cantonment, Florida. Peggy's Texas 2 Step Peggy Raley, the major mover behind the Boerne [Texas] Quiltfest each year, had three EQ quilts featured in Texas Hwy magazine. Peggy's Texas 2 Step, and Phone Home, were shown hanging in the Boerne library, and her Amish Shadow with an Attitude made the magazine's back cover. Peggy writes: "I would probably be 60 quilts behind if I had to rely on ordinary patterns and pencil and paper." ![[Computer Chic]](../../images/nwz.jpg)
Computer Chic in New Zealand Mary Metcalf, from Auckland, New Zealand, featured EQ3 in an article she wrote for New Zealand Quilter magazine (issue #24). Mary's article, "Computer Chic," was illustrated with her quilt Pohutukawa III, which used different sizes of blocks to create leaves and blossoms. Quilting Today Margaret Gray, from Salem Utah, turned a BlockBase block into a bonanza of a prizewinner! Margaret writes, "Issue 72 of Quilting Today will have my version of Katherine Wheels. I took the pattern from BlockBase into EQ. This was real easy to make, but looks difficult. I still do not know why this quilt is a big hit. I did enter it in 3 county fairs and received 5 blue and grand champion ribbons. [!] It was made as a gift for my husband, and soon it will go on the bed." Gloria Driscoll, from Richford, New York, writes, "My great-grandmother and I are featured in Quilting Today (January 1999 issue) about connecting past quilters with today's quilters. The quilt shown is from our extensive collection of quilts made by our foremothers from the 1850s through 1956. Even though I didn't use EQ to make my quilt featured in this article, I now use it to reproduce these quilts both full size and miniature. We also used BlockBase to help us date the blocks and quilts, which helped us to identify the makers. I don't believe that we would have been able to do this project without EQ." Contemporary Quilt '99 Exhibition Vikki Chenette, from Buffalo, Wyoming, has EQ designed quilts included in the Contemporary Quilt '99 exhibition, sponsored by the Wyoming Arts Council in the Council Gallery, Cheyenne, Wyoming. The show's up from July 12 - Sept. 20, 1999. New England Quilt Museum Martha Supnik, the New England Quilt Museum's Library Volunteer and Webmaster, writes, "Just thought you'd be pleased to know that the Massachusetts Quilt Documentation Project has been revived and we are using a copy of BlockBase on my laptop to find the right page in Barbara Brackman's book to verify quilt pattern names. It's the fastest way to find them!" The New England Quilt Museum is in Lowell, Massachusetts. 1999 American Quilter's Society Nancy Welsch used EQ to design the appliqué central medallion of the Ole Miss Sesquicentennial Quilt, displayed at the 1999 American Quilter's Society show. Says Nancy, " All those S'es. The University of Mississippi Sesquicentennial. I said I wished it was Ohio. DH [Dear Husband] said be glad it's not the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." Quilt Guild Challenge Carol Miller, from Clifton, Virginia, told us about her guild challenge, designed using BlockBase and EQ blocks. "They are provided with the blocks that existed at the turn of the last century and told to interpret one or more as we go into the next century." Carol is also her guild's Webmaster, so if you want to see the blocks and challenge rules, go to http://www.vcq.org/century_challenge.htm Carol says you are welcome to copy it and use it in your guilds. Vote for a Quilt Design Using EQ Kay Bruce, from Milano, Texas, told us how her guild used EQ to "vote" for a raffle quilt design. "When your guild is trying to decide what raffle quilt to make, print out about four possible design choices from EQ designs. Take these four printouts to the guild for them to vote on. Each member writes her initials on her favorite. The one with the most initials is the popular choice for the raffle quilt design." Basic Realities Contest Winner Anita Solomon, New York, NY, won an honorable mention in the Jinny Beyer Basic Realities Contest for her EQ-designed quilt, Reality Check. Below is a detail from Anita's prize-winning quilt. ![[quilt detail]](../../images/detail.jpg)
CONTENTS: Announcements - EQ4 Simplified - Mailbox - Fabric Scanning Tips - ClubEQ - Ask EQ - Show & Tell - Recognizing EQ Designers - Other Uses for EQ4 - Web Sightings. |
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