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	Volume 8, No. 2, Winter 2001/2002 View Other Floppy Gazettes
	CONTENTS: Announcements - Ask EQ - Free Stuff - Works For Me - Show & Tell - Quilt University - One-Patch Templates - Connecting Threads Round Robin Project. Show & Tell News from our talented users Dorothy Milligan, of Hemet, California, placed first in Miniature Quilts' "Other" category for her Dancing Bears mini quilt. Her tiny quilt is printed. "I printed the three inch blocks in color on fabric and then put them together. I thought it was pretty cute but never expected it to win!" Sherry Herringshaw of Baton Rouge, Louisiana had three mini quilts published in Miniature Quilt magazine's issue 57. "EQ was used in some way or other on each mini. The Blooming Nine-patch design was one of the first I did in EQ3! I was able to try different color combinations for the border till I found one to represent sunshine and sky." I also used EQ3 create the 1/2" sawtooth paper pieced border block for Cherry Bounce (shown at left). This block was one of my entries for a border block exchange. Since then I have converted the file to EQ4 and re-used the block several times." Sherry's third published quilt is A Zing With an Amish Ring (shown at right). She writes, "I used EQ4 to reduce the pattern to 3" miniature. I used one of EQ4's block quilting designs, Interlocking Circles, to quilt the mini. I just printed the block the size of the mini and had a top design ready to quilt! (By the way, I used a tearaway stabilizer to trace and then stitch over the design on the top – no marking.) Marion Watchinski, of Overland Park, Kansas writes, "I have just received my complimentary copy of the September/October issue of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting magazine, in which my Union Star quilt (shown at right) is included! This is the first quilt I both designed and actually finished in EQ4. I have an embarassingly large collection of Roberta Horton plaids, and I think I got a little carried away!" Debbie Reed, of Junction City, Kansas, used EQ to design Palm Star, the cover quilt on Quiltmaker magazine's November/December 2001 issue. Debbie writes, " Palm Star uses a single block from the EQ Block Library, The Palm. It's found under 'Classic Pieced - Old Favorites.' It's the setting that makes it interesting." Debbie's work also appeared in the winter issue of Quilt magazine. They featured two patterns she drafted in EQ: Crazy For Christmas and Crazy Christmas Stockings. She also exhibited a small quilt in the "America: From The Heart" exhibition at the 2001 International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas. Karin Hellabyof Suffolk, England, used EQ4 when developing designs for her new book, Sew a Row Quilts. Karin's book is great for all skill levels, including beginners, for she includes how-to steps for applique, foundations, English paper piecing, trupunto, quilting as well as all the steps needed to finish your quilt. Karin's book is being distributed world wide outside the UK by Quilters' Resource Inc. So ask for her book at your favorite quilt store. You can e-mail Karin at: quilters.haven@btinternet.com or visit www.quilters-haven.co.uk Jenny Svennson, of Roodepoort, South Africa, used EQ4 to design a prize-winner. Jenny's proud husband, Lennart, writes: "The quilt, called Crown of Thorns for a Rainbow Nation (shown at right) was started during a rather turbulent period of our country's history. It is made from purely South African fabrics. The crowns are obviously representative of the Crown of Jesus and his suffering. The colours are a representaion of the diversity of twelve officially recognised and taught languages. (There are, in fact, many many more languages in South Africa.) Jenny entered the quilt in the 2000 National quilt festival and won first prize in the traditional piecing, small, catagory. Her prize was R 3500.00 gift voucher from Bernina Sewing Machines. Jenny used this voucher to purchase a computerised sewing maching which was given to her Mother-in-law as a gift." Valli Schiller, of Sugarland, Texas, won an honorable mention in the 2001 IQA juried show in the traditional pieced-large category. Her quilt Pleasing Miss Barbara (shown at left) was designed using EQ4. "I was quite pleased that the final quilt came out looking very much like the EQ4 version," Valli writes. I modified the colorways of stock EQ4 fabrics to closely approximate the actual fabrics I had available. Then I used EQ4 to generate paper foundations for the eccentric star sashing. Finally, I used Layer 2 to carry the eccentric star sashing into the wide floral border." Linda Logsdon of Baker, Montana uses EQ to designs quilts with her daughter and son-in-law (Christine and John Wik from Wik Design). Linda writes: " I use EQ4 to design and publish all our quilt patterns. We have a set of "Create-A-Quilt" Block Patterns that were created with the use of EQ4." Several of these quilts were recently published in The Quilter Magazine including the November 2001 cover quilt, Crystal Dawn, combining two Create-A-Quilt patterns, Crystal and Dawn. Linda, Christine and John's Web site is: www.wikdesign.com CONTENTS: Announcements - Ask EQ - Free Stuff - Works For Me - Show & Tell - Quilt University - One-Patch Templates - Connecting Threads Round Robin Project.
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