January 2007 Challenge: Draw your own Blocks! (Page 1)

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Barb Vlack
Prairie Lilies

Barb Vlack
Stars and Jelly Donuts

Abbi Lamb
Rotated a bit

Abbi Lamb
Blade for Chopper

I tweaked a single Prairie Lily block by putting four blocks together and adding leaves. That made it possible to create this layout with blocks on point.

St. Charles, Illinois USA

I played with color to get the look of a glow coming from the center of the quilt.

St. Charles, Illinois USA

As the other quilt, inspired by a computer generated design. Same block, just "rotated a bit here and there".

Hobbs, NM

Looked at long enough this forms squares like the blade in the 'chopper' ads from TV.Let the red and yellow be the sides and the green the bottom where the veggies fall. The black places are shadows formed by the top and sides.
Inspired by a computer design.

Hobbs, NM

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Barbara Gilstad
Sea Birds

Carola Forsberg
Boxing Day

Carole Kuhlman

Daphne Stewart
Banner Cherbourg

Quilt designed especially for this month's challenge.

Texas

Designed for clubEQ January, 2007

Designed for clubEQ January, 2007

A four-block quilt combining a pieced foundation with applique. On an easydraw plus patchdraw drawing board, I simplified the 'Amaryllis Bulb' from EQ's library, then added a variation of 'Peacock Feather' to the applique layer.

The block was drawn and fine-tuned using a color scheme of bright colors on black. I used the random recolor feature, mapped to fabrics and tweaked a bit to come up with this colorway. It seems to make a more interesting display.

Sunnyside, Washington

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Daphne Stewart
Cactus Garden

Donna St. Jean
Teenagers Dreams

Dina Yagodich
My First EQ Challenge Attempt

Eyglo F.
Kaleidoscope

While I was drawing this block for paper-piecing I kept thinking of a cactus in a dish. I named the block 'Tidy Bromeliad'.

The block needed more head room so I used the Serendipity feature of EQ6 to add a sort of half-sash on two sides.

The notecard told me this frame was 'Mitered + 1/8 size'. I don't understand what that means but that's a nice feature of EQ: you can do things even when you don't know the how or the why of what you're doing.

Sunnyside, Washington

I was thinking of my granddaughter and her cell phone.

Minnesota

Damascus, MD

I call this a Kaleidoscope because of all the different patterns you can see depending how you are looking at it.

Iceland

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Eileen Ostrowsky
Curves Galore

Ethel Mecklem
Overlapping Circles

Ethel Mecklem
Prickley Cactus Flower

Eugenie Werdmuller
Wheels Of Time

Designed for clubEQ January, 2007

I drew this original block in Easy Draw and then added the mitered borders finishing off with the Auto-Border from the Vines category.

Very fun learning about all the new features in EQ6 and how much easier they make designing.

Astoria, Oregon

I drew this original block in Easy Draw completing the quilt by adding the Auto-Border from the Miscellaneous category and then a final mitered border and binding.

Astoria, Oregon

I designed and made the quilt for the 50th birthday of my friend.
He loves contemporary art.
His interests for cars and the era of the industrial revolution is showing in the wheels or gears.
His love for reading is showing in some fabrics used. They have words on them.
More pictures are on my website.

Netherlands

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Quilt 20

Gina Andrews
Big Chief

Gina Andrews
Night Cries

J Bannon
Arrowhead

J Bannon
Log Cabin Twist
on a Curve

I will probably make this Big Chief quilt or at least one with the Big Chief Applique in the center medallion.

Houston, Texas

I am enjoying applique right now, so I thought I'd send in this wolf applique quilt. Can't say I'll ever really make this quilt, but it was fun to design.

Houston, Texas

Designed from a book on tesselations by J Beyer this is supposed to be a one patch charm quilt. The only way I could figure to draw it was as a pieced block.

United Kingdom

I decided to try random lines to come up with something new when I found myself doing this without thinking...so I finished it.

United Kingdom

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Judy Clark
Flights of Fancy

Judy Potts
Thoughts of Spring

Judy Potts
Starry nights

Kathleen Moorhead Johnson
Split Leaf

This quilt was inspired by my brother who is an avid fan of Dragons. The center is a design based on a tattoo which I imported and traced into EQ5. The knights and surrounding dragons are paper pieced pattterns from the book Spellbinding Quilts by Maaike Bakker. I have just completed this quilt top and have my quilting layout planned and I have another identical top for myself in the works!

Blocks - two 7's blocks combined.

Parker, CO

This block is an original design.

Parker, CO

This is a quilt that I have been thinking about making for quite some time. It would be very easy to do so with the new Cut a Round ruler by Cheryl Phillips to make the circle blocks and then add the leaf applique. I didn't want to have a huge file so didn't add lots of batik fabrics to the file but I definetly will use lots more in the real quilt. Also think it will be fun to quilt the vein lines in the leaves with decorative threads, maybe couch them or bobbin quilt them.

Alexander, ND

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Laurie Hopman
Winds of Spring

Leanne Davis
Empire Hotel

Mercedes Silva
The Railway Star

Mercedes Silva
The Twisted Railway

The block I called Whirlwind. While creating this setting it made me think of the constant movement of the seasons moving and changing, and Spring flowers. I used new tools in wreathmaker and then created a layout with a block I drew in Easydraw.

This quilt design is based on the floor tiles on the entry portico of the old Empire Hotel in Queenstown, Tasmania.

Parquetry & tiled floors make great quilt patterns.

Adelaide, South Australia

Designed for clubEQ January, 2007

My own design. The Railway lines can be achieved using fabrics with color strippes pattern.

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Priscilla Newberger

Priscilla Newberger

Reeze Hanson
The Rose Window

Sharon Sauser
Spinning Parts

Designed for clubEQ January, 2007

I had fun playing with the EQ6 Symmetry tool, layout library and the new random recolor tool. This was the result, and it reminded me of the sun streaming through a stained glass window, refracting all the beautiful colors onto a pattern on the floor.

Ottawa, KS

I originally designed this in EQ4 for a design challenge with a friend. I pieced it in a five block size in red, green, & gold. Recoloring it very differently makes me want to use it in another quilt. It's a fun block to piece.

Eugene, Oregon