Club EQ Challenge - July 2010

What is ClubEQ?

ClubEQ is a free club any EQ user can join, simply by using EQ to design a quilt. Club leader, Barb Vlack, presents monthly challenges. Those EQ users who join the challenge (and the fun) send in a project file. These projects are displayed together on the Web. Participants receive projects from all the other challenge participants that month. So send in one project file, and receive many more in return! No sewing necessary!

This month's challenge!

Current Challenge: What’s in your purse?

Try your drawing and/or design skills to highlight something you find in your purse. Use appliqué or piecing to have some fun with this one.
- Barb Vlack

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Example Quilt #1 by Barb Vlack

My Kindle Cover

I made a cover for my Kindle and used my embroidery machine to stitch a quote about reading on the inside flap. But _this_ is the cover I really want to make! I smile every time I think of Groucho Marx's quote.

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Example Quilt #2 by Barb Vlack

What Gets Past the TSA

I travel with my "keep occupied" kit: reading and knitting or needlework. Here's my knitting, which is a constant companion in my purse!

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You can submit EQ6 or EQ7 designs for the challenge. Keep in mind, EQ7 users can open EQ6 and EQ7 files. EQ6 users can only open EQ6 files.

The deadline for this challenge: August 2, 2010

Monthly Challenge Rules:

Please follow the rules. Following these steps helps us post the quilts to the albums and give participants the files faster. Each time we have to try to figure out what you meant to send or do, it slows us down and delays the release.

If you project does not meet one of the criteria, we will correct the issue, post it that way on the web, and will not take further corrections. For instance, if you send a project with 12 quilts, we will pick our favorites and only post the minimum. Or, if you don't name your project or put anything on the notecards, we will only put the file name on the albums and your quilt will be lonely without its story.

To participate in this challenge:

Create an EQ6 project file based off the current challenge description.
Submit up to two quilts. Projects should be in the EQ6 format.
Name the project after yourself and follow our naming convention. My name is Andrea Bishop, so my project would either be called: 201007AndreaB or 201007ABishop. If you have a popular first name, please use the last name version instead.
Include information on the notecards:
- Quilt name
- Your name
- Where you are from
- Your e-mail address and/or website
- Include as much other information as you'd like.
Consider the notecard your "quilt label." This label will be seen by many! If the design you are submitting has appeared elsewhere and/or is not of your own creation, please acknowledge where the design came from and/or the original designer. If it is an original design, please mention that.
Please do not submit any copyrighted work that should not be shared.
Keep the number of fabrics (scanned or otherwise) to a minimum and make sure they are in the 8-bit/256-color bitmap format. We ask this to keep the size of your project reasonable. (Under 300KB is amazing, under 600KB is ok, anything 700KB-1MB is a bit excessive, and anything over 1MB is too much.)
Eliminate the following before sending:
- all quilts other than the 1-2 you wish to submit
- unused quilt blocks
- unused block colorings!!
- unnecessary scanned fabrics
- unused fabrics
Leave the colors on the color tab as is... you do not need to delete anything from there.
Submit the file by attaching your project file to an email to penny@electricquilt.com
All entries will be displayed in the Albums section of our website.
When you send the email, please include the words Club EQ in the subject line and in the body somewhere. Too often we get emails with no message and just an attachment which looks more like a virus email than a Club EQ project file.

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