CONTENTS: Announcements -  Ask EQ -  Free Stuff -  Works For Me -  Show & Tell -  Quilter Community -  Quilt University -  A Quilt for Sean -  Club EQ -  Make it Simpler Paper Piecing -  EQ Mac Users Group -  Let's Make Marshmallows -  EQ & HP Sponsor Computer Labs -  Coming Soon from EQ -  Our Booth in Houston

Dear Friends,

To read this Floppy Gazette, click on the blue links above. Notice that the "View Other Floppy Gazettes" link, at the top, lets you read past issues.

This issue contains a recipe for homemade marshmallows, interviews with authors, and many more ways people use EQ5 personally and professionally. We also forecast EQ's new 2004 products.

Maxine sees herself

Our friend, photographer Mark Packo, sent us this photo of his cat Maxine eyeballing a cat pillow made from an EQ5 library block.

C'est vous, Maxine.

Don't we wish fabric could reproduce?
Jan, our Shipping Manager, is known for her sense of humor. When someone called looking for 30s reproduction fabrics, Jan misspoke, saying, "So you're looking for reproductive fabric?" Don't we wish?

Did you know there was an "Electric Quilt" in 1897?
Barb Vlack sent this article, from the March 7, 1897 Bluefield Daily Telegraph in Bluefield, West Virginia:

Woman and Home
The Electric Quilt It Enables Milady to Take a Turkish Bath in the Parlor

With the electric quilt which has been invented by Snedekor, the London electrician ...you can not only save yourself the expense of a bath ticket, but you can bathe amid all the comforts of home. All you have to do is to wrap yourself up in a quilt, turn on a stopcock and wait... In 30 seconds from the time the stopcock is turned, you are sweltering in a heat of 150 degrees Fahrenheit without steam, without visible sign of heat, and, better than all, without inconvenience to anyone else to be in the room.... The heating system of the quilt is said to be more beneficial than water. A man comes home tired and chilled, slips into the quilt and, perhaps, a dangerous illness is averted. It should be the means of saving many lives.

EQ5 users—be sure to see our site's "just for you" pages —

• Lessons for EQ5
• Fabric palettes for EQ5
• ClubEQ challenges for EQ5
• Free Stuff

EQ and HP sponsor Computer Lab classes at Quilt Festival
The Electric Quilt Company is teaming up with Hewlett-Packard to sponsor two computer labs at the 2004 International Quilt Festival this Fall. Barb Vlack, Fran Gonzalez, Mary Ellen Kranz, Katrina Hamer, and Craig Hamer will teach 6 1/2 days of hands-on, mostly EQ5 classes in Houston, Texas from November 1 - 7, 2004. There are 25 classes in all. See complete schedule and sign up information here. The class administrator is Barbara Gilstad.

We're on T.V.
EQ Staff member Andrea Poulimenos will be featured on FIVE segments of America Quilts Creatively with hosts Karen Good and Sue Hausmann. If you get America Quilts Creatively where on your PBS station, watch for Andrea.

Andrea will also be on Friends in the Bee, with host Jodie Davis. Jodie visited us in January (2004) and shot a whole segment at The Electric Quilt Company. Look for it on PAX / FamilyNet TV on Friday afternoons.

Anniversary Contest

Angie Padilla's "My Dream House" quilt, winner of our Anniversary contest

The results are in. Congratulations to the amazing winners of our Tenth Anniversary contest, co-sponsored by Hewlett-Packard. We displayed the winners at our booth at the 2003 International Quilt Festival in Houston.

What new products are we working on?
For Spring of 2004:

• STASH Spring 2004
• Town & Country Patchwork: Projects to Paper Piece by Myra Harder and Cori Derksen
• Classic Appliqué— Patterns for EQ5 will be available in 3 separate block editions:
  1. Baltimore Album Series
  2. Folk Art Appliqué Series
  3. 1920s and 1930s Series

For Fall of 2004:

• STASH Fall 2004
• We'll have a whole line of printable papers and fabrics coming out, along with a book on printing by expert photo/printing/quilting teachers, Mary Ellen Kranz and Cheryl Hayes.
• Our beautiful book of classic Karen Stone patterns will come out in Fall 2004. Really.
• And we're working with Robyn Pandolph on a new line of patterns created especially for her Fall 2004 fabric line. Fabulous!

Calling EQ1 Users
Long-time EQ-user Daphne Stewart suggested doing an article on EQ software users who started way back with EQ1, released in 1992. Daphne writes, "It would be interesting to hear their comments about the various changes through the years."

If you were one of the pioneers who used EQ1, would you please write us at: penny@electricquilt.com? We'd like to hear from you.

It's your support that makes this all possible. Thanks from all of us!

It's the Chinese year of the Monkey, but for EQ the Mouse it's the year of the mouse...

Dean, Penny, Ann, Margaret, Andrea, Lu, Jan, Sara W., Kevin, Jenny, Monica, Ryan, Heidi, Sara L. and EQ the Mouse.

CONTENTS: Announcements -  Ask EQ -  Free Stuff -  Works For Me -  Show & Tell -  Quilter Community -  Quilt University -  A Quilt for Sean -  Club EQ -  Make it Simpler Paper Piecing -  EQ Mac Users Group -  Let's Make Marshmallows -  EQ & HP Sponsor Computer Labs -  Coming Soon from EQ -  Our Booth in Houston