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	Volume 6, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1999 View Other Floppy Gazettes
	CONTENTS: Announcements - EQ4 Simplified - Mailbox - Fabric Scanning Tips - ClubEQ - Ask EQ - Show & Tell - Recognizing EQ Designers - Other Uses for EQ4 - Web Sightings. Recognizing EQ Designers: page 1 of 2 Introducing EQ4 Block Designers Rita Denenberg and Debbie Sichel The answer: Rita Denenberg and Debbie Sichel The question: What two designers have blocks in the EQ4 Block Library? Rita Denenberg and Debbie Sichel both contributed their original block designs to enhance EQ4. We thought you might like to know a bit more about these designers, and how they came to design the blocks you can now see and use in the block library. Rita Denenberg: We first "met" Rita on-line, when she won an EQ Web site quilt contest with her appliqué floral quilt, To Martin with Love, designed on EQ3. [The blocks from this quilt are in the block library's Contemporary Appliqué, "Rita Denenberg Garden" file in EQ4. See her quilt, and an interview with Rita, on the old EQ Web site: http://www.wcnet.org/ElectricQuiltCo/cont6.htm] We soon learned that Rita, from Wellington, Florida, had won many quilt contests, had quilts featured in the books Making Childhood Memories, Great American Quilts, Award Winning Quilts and Their Makers, and Florida Quilts. Her winning EQ quilt had even been featured in McCall's Quilting's February 1996 issue. Rita generously offered to share more block designs in EQ4, sending us new flower blocks, Christmas, Hanukkah, Easter and Halloween blocks. You'll even find her own self-portrait as a quilter! This block was possible because Rita was the first person to test out EQ4's new importing feature which lets you trace around a photo (or drawing) to draw a new block. To see EQ4 patterns Rita has for sale, including State Flowers, State Birds, Boy Scouts, and Girl Scouts, go to http://myquilts.hypermart.net/patterns.htm Debbie Sichel: Debbie Sichel from Coarsegold, California, sent us an amazing file of Hebrew alphabet foundation designs last year. [Find Debbie's foundation blocks in the Paper Piecing, Hebrew Alphabet file; plus a Dreidel and two Groggers in the Holiday Foundations. The Contemporary Pieced style has 4 Star of Davids in the Home Delights file.] We'd had requests for Jewish-themed blocks, so asked permission to include them in EQ4. She told us a bit about why she'd designed them. "The alephbet is what is used to write the Hebrew language. Hebrew is the language used in Israel, and in synagogues everywhere used in worship on the Sabbath. Lots of Jewish art work includes writing in Hebrew," Debbie says. "I wanted to be able to use the letters without always having to resort to appliqué, especially if I wanted rather small letters. I designed the alephbet mainly to give myself paper foundations for a quilt for Hanukkah. That quilt is still an electric one! Then I expanded from those four letters and made enough to make Yom Kippur in Hebrew for another quilt, expressing my feelings about the Day of Atonement. From there I thought it would be fun to make a baby quilt with the whole alephbet on it." *Thanks to Rita and Debbie for sharing their EQ designs with all of us!* Go to Recognizing EQ Designers Page 2 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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