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KAREN COMBS INTERVIEW & FREE PROJECT
Author Karen Combs is a long-time EQer, known for her many books and beautiful
3-D illusion quilts. Read our interview with Karen, where she'll tell you how she used EQ to create great Celtic quilts with a few simple blocks. Then download her free EQ6 project and try out her ideas. This project is just a taste of the design ideas from her new book, Celtic Pieced Illusions — perfect for trying out in EQ6.
FABRIC POSTCARDS
Our own Sarah
Kollar wrote an article on making fabric postcards. It's reprinted here with
permission
from Creative
Techniques
magazine.
FREE ANGIE PADILLA PROJECT
Angie Padilla has a beautiful free "Playing Dressup" project for EQ6 users. A perfect spring quilt for daughters or granddaughters! (Soon you can learn EQ6 drawing directly from expert Angie. Her EQ6 Appliqué Drawing book comes out this spring --- the companion book to Patti Anderson's EQ6 Pieced Drawing book. We recommend both books if you want to design your own blocks, or modify those in EQ6.)
 PIECE, LOVE AND QUILTS CONTEST
Writer Meg Cox has a wonderful quilter's resource guide, The Quilter's Catalog, coming out next month from Workman Publishing. And we're in it! To celebrate Meg's book, we've joined with Benartex and Bernina to sponsor a quilt contest. Prizes include:
- A deluxe software from Electric Quilt!
- A Bernina Aurora 440 Quilter's Edition sewing machine with exclusive BSR.
- A year's worth of fabrics from Benartex!
- An all expense paid trip to Quilt Festival!
Check out the contest rules, and print out an entry form.
FREE VIEWERS
Want to see a self-running show of your own EQ projects? Download a free project viewer:
Download EQ6 show if you have EQ6. It will show any EQ3, EQ4, EQ5 and EQ6 projects you've made.
Download EQ5 show if you only have EQ5. It will show any EQ3, EQ4 & EQ5 projects you have made.
CLUB EQ CHALLENGE AND ROUND ROBINS
Looking for inspiration? See what others create with EQ. Check out previous clubEQ challenge, featuring Quilts for Guys, and the recent Round Robins.
DO YOU HAVE FREE EQ PROJECTS OR PATTERNS TO SHARE ON YOUR WEB SITE?
Let us know and we'll list you on the Project
Sharing page. Just email our
webmaster with the necessary links and information and ask for your site to be considered for inclusion on that page.
NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES
New to this newsletter? See earlier issues here. Scroll down to see direct links to interviews and projects you may have missed.
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MYSTERY QUILT STORY AND LESSONS
Our Mitzi McDrubbin mystery quilt is almost at an end. Read
Episode 11, in which Mitzi and Ruthie get an unwelcome earful from realtor
Eli Endberg. But they leave his office wondering just how involved Eli's mother
may be in this whole missing quilt business...Then
do Lesson 11, and draw Peter's Quilt block. Learn to use EQ5 or
EQ6 as you solve the mystery and see your
final quilt after the 12th episode.
(If you are just joining us, start here with Episode 1 and Lesson 1.)
MAIL-LIST FOR MAC EQ-ERS
Are you running your EQ on a Mac? Then you may want to subscribe to the free EQonMacs Yahoo group, run by Sheila Williams. For more information, contact Sheila at Sheila@SheilaWilliams.com.
ARE YOU TEACHING EQ?
If you are teaching EQ classes, don't forget to let our webmaster know the date, time and location of your classes so we can list them on our web site.
WANT TO START AN EQ CLUB?
Download our "Planning an EQ Club" PDF file (PDF file). See what you need to get started, how to organize, and get topic ideas. The Mystery Quilt would make a great club project.
FREE DESKTOP CALENDAR
Download Carolyn
Laukkonen's free calendar onto your computer desktop. Find complete instructions,
and a wonderful new calendar each month. While there, click her site map to find
the EQ projects she shares.
Or check out the beautiful calendars Diane Anderson designs just for you.
EQ CLASSES
Want a hands-on EQ class? See who's teaching, what's being taught, and where.
FREE EQ6 WEB BUTTONS
Show your EQ spirit by adding an EQ6 button to your web site!
TAKE OUR SURVEY
We'd love knowing how many of you use digital cameras, and print on fabric. Would you help us by clicking here to take
our survey?
DOWNLOAD MORE FREE FABRIC
This month's download is "Neutral with Some Blue". Choose either to download a Library file or a Project file. Be sure to follow the easy steps provided. Then vote for next month's fabric.
COMING NEXT MONTH
* An interview with Gloria Hansen, author of our hotly anticipated book, Digital Essentials: the quilt maker's must-have guide to images, files and more!
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