Interview

INTERVIEW WITH MICHELE SCOTT
This month we're interviewing EQer Michele Scott. She tells us how she got started, how she designs and submits work to quilting magazines, how she uses EQ, and what she's up to now.

Lessons & Classes

KALEIDOSCOPE COLLECTORS MONTH 9
In Month 9, Andrea covers layouts for large kaleidoscopes for owners of Kaleidoscope Collection CD. If you're just starting, see Months 1 - 8.

In Lesson 8, Andrea revealed the mystery quilt and asked for pictures from those sewing along. Check out Judy Best's Kaleidoscope mystery quilt. Then see how Pat Huston created an entirely different look.

PREVIOUS MYSTERY QUILT STORIES AND LESSONS
Learn EQ5 or EQ6 by working through our two different Mystery Quilt series: If you are just joining us, start here with Skylights Episode 1 and Skylights Lesson 1.

Then work through the EQuinox mystery, starting with EQuinox Episode 1 and EQuinox Lesson 1.

Show us your quilts! Have you made one of our Mystery quilts? We want to see your quilt or top. Email us a photo and we'll post it in our mystery gallery: Skylight mystery quilts, EQuinox mystery quilts

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 website.

EQ CLASSES
Want a hands-on EQ class? See who's teaching, what's being taught, and where. We've just added some by RaNae Merrill, Sheila Williams and Andrea Bishop... as well as the October 2009 EQ classes of Barb Vlack & Mary Ellen Kranz at Quilt Festival in Houston.

News

NEW ADVICE ABOUT PRINTING ON FABRIC
Are you printing on fabric? See why you should avoid soaking the fabric in your stainless steel sink.

TIME TO SIGN UP FOR HOUSTON CLASSES
July is sign-up month for the hands-on October 2009 EQ classes experts Barb Vlack & Mary Ellen Kranz will teach at Quilt Festival in Houston. See their class offerings. Check with www.quilts.com to enroll.

NEW PAPER PIECING TIP
When you print a foundation pattern does EQ tell you that you have an "inside corner," and you go "huh?" See our blog for a solution for fixing the inside corner.

Show us your work

EXHIBIT IN OUR NEW EQ QUILT GALLERY
Our gallery is growing. See the dozens of new quilts in our "EQ Quilt Gallery".

We want YOUR quilts! Send us a good photo (larger than 600 x 600 pixels) of your quilt, along with your EQ project containing the EQ design for this same quilt. Tell us a bit about you, your quilt, your designing, whatever. List your website or blog if you have them. Help us show off your designing whether you're a quilting professional or this is your first quilt. Send them to penny@electricquilt.com. We love seeing what you're making and knowing more about you.

VISIT OUR BLOG
New EQ-related blog topics are added almost daily. Let us know if you post EQ stuff on *your* blog so we can link. Also, send us info about what EQ stuff you're up to. We love to brag about you! Send an email to penny@electricquilt.com and tell us your EQ news.

Inspiration

SEE HOW BETH FERRIER DESIGNED HER 2009 BLOCK OF THE MONTH
Watch a slide show showing the steps Beth went through as she designed her "Now & Forever" Block of the Month with EQ6.

GETA GRAMA'S QUICK & EASY QUILT
A finished quilt in 4 days? Geta shows you a great little design, so easy you can create it in EQ6 just like she did. You'd draw the block in EasyDraw, then color, set the blocks, and rotate some to get the effect you like. Easy!

DAILY EQ-DESIGNS BY JUDY BUTCHER
We like visiting Judy Butcher's blog often just to see what new EQ quilt she's designed for the day.

DAILY EQ-DESIGNS BY GLYNIS THOMPSON
Want more inspiration? Glynis has a blog too where she posts daily EQ designs. Check out some of Glynis's latest work.

Clubs

WANT TO START YOUR OWN EQ CLUB?
Download our "Planning an EQ Club" 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.

ClubEQ
ClubEQ is a free monthly challenge organized by EQ-author, Barb Vlack. To participate, send in a project with 1-2 quilts to penny@electricquilt.com that follow the challenge theme and ClubEQ rules. Imagine getting 50 to 100 quilts for just submitting one.

We took the month of June off for a summer break, but will have a "Diamonds Are Forever!" challenge starting in July.

Support

ASK EQ THE MOUSE!
Long-time mascot, EQ the Mouse, invites you to submit EQ questions for his column "Ask EQ." Email questions to Tech Support. Put "Ask EQ" in the subject line. He'll answer your question, and perhaps you'll make his monthly Q & A column. Read it here.

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.

EQ FORUMS
The new EQ Forums are up! Visit the EQ Forums and register, then you can ask questions and get answers from EQ staff, authors and other EQ users right on the EQ web site.

TECH SUPPORT
A reminder that you can see answers to our most Frequently Asked Questions right on the EQ web site. See EQ6 questions here. See EQ5 questions here.

EQ6 UPDATE
If you own EQ6, download and install the free EQ6 Update which makes EQ6 run faster and smarter. You'll know you're updated if in EQ6 you click HELP > About EQ6 and see "Build 2."

Contests

NEW CONTEST – NAME THE NEW BLOCK
Send in a name (or names) for Andrea's new block. We'll pick our favorite, plus 4 runner-ups. If your block name is among our fave five, you'll win a copy of our new Quilting Designs: The Quiltmaker Collection Vol. 6 CD (or your choice of the other Quilting Designs in the series).

Send an email
To: penny@electricquilt.com
Subject: Block Name Contest
Body: your name and the block name(s)

Entry deadline: July 20, 2009

Click to download this new block as an EQ6 project.

ANNOUNCING THE EQ – HAIKU CONTEST WINNERS!
Our guest judge Gyleen X. Fitzgerald has selected 5 winning haiku. Congratulations to:

Carolyn Laukkonen
Micki Butler
Jacquelyn Jacobi
Arizona Lagousakos
Jodie Witherell

Each winner will receive a free Quilting Designs CD of their choice.

This was a hard contest to judge because your entries were all SO creative! Who knew you were as poetic as you are artistic?!

See the winning entries, along with ALL the other terrific haiku here.

NEW AMY BUTLER CONTEST
Amy Butler is celebrating the launch of her Amy Butler's Softwares CD with a contest. She is accepting entries June 1st through September 15th.

For more information: Mid Mod Contest
See some of the results as they come in.

Fabric

DOWNLOAD MORE FREE FABRIC
This month's download is "Damask." 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.

NEW CONNECTING THREADS FABS AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD
Connecting Threads has made some of their own fabric collections available especially for EQ6 users as Library files. Find the collections here.

1) Download the file to your Desktop. Extract the zipped file (right-click, then click "Extract All").
2) Place the .FAB file in your My Documents\My EQ6\USER\ folder on your hard drive.
3) Open EQ6 and your fabric library. The collection will appear in your "MY LIBRARY" folder.

NEW MODA FABS AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD
Moda has new fabrics available to download as jpeg files, ready to be opened in EQ6.

1) Visit Moda's site, click any brown dot in front of a fabric name, download to your computer (remember where it goes).
2) Go to LIBRARIES > Fabric Library > Import > From Image Files and import the fabric.
3) Add the fabric to your Sketchbook and use it, or save the fabric in My Library (see pages 143 and 144 in the EQ6 User Manual) to use in future projects.

If you need complete steps, EQ the Mouse addresses them in one of his Ask EQ columns.

Freebies

FREE PROJECT FROM TERRIE SANDELIN
Terrie Sandelin, author of "Miniatures in Minutes" has made a free (full-size) starry quilt project for you to download. Read more about it on Terrie's blog.

FREE PROJECTS FROM REGINA GREWE
Regina, a German EQ designer, offers wonderful patterns to download as EQ6 projects.

Bookmark her site and check back monthly to get new patterns (foundation and appliqué patterns) for her on-going series on Birds.

FREE MYSTERY BOM FROM GUDRUN
Gudrun, from Belgium, has started a Mystery Block of the Month for 2009 that she would like to share.
Here is Block #1
Here is Block #2
Here is Block #3
Here is Block #4
Here is Block #5
Here is Block #6

FREE BALTIMORE BLISS BOM & THIMBLE QUILT FROM SINDY RODENMAYER
EQ6-designer Sindy Rodenmayer has a beautiful new appliqué block pattern for you each month in her 2009 BOM. Get 'em while they're up, because these block patterns don't stay up all year.

See how her finished Baltimore Bliss top looks now on her blog.

FREE MOTHER HEN BLOCK FROM SINDY
Sindy Rodenmayer surprised us with a free summer Mother Hen block. Download it as an EQ6 project. Thanks, Sindy!

FREE PROJECTS FROM DENISE RUSSART
Denise Russart loves designing appliqué with EQ6 and has devoted a section of her blog to projects you can download.

FREE QUILTED DESKTOPS & CALENDARS
Carolyn Laukkonen offers you a series of quilted desktops to choose from. Choose a favorite, or switch them monthly. Download onto your computer desktop. Find complete instructions on her site.

Or check out the beautiful calendars from Diane Anderson designs just for you.

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.

FREE EQ6 WEB BUTTONS
Show your EQ spirit by adding an EQ6 button to your web site!

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.

Next Month...

COMING NEXT MONTH
* The results of our "Name the Block" contest

* Interview with Daphne Greig & Susan Purney Mark of Patchworks Studio

* More free projects