CONTENTS: Announcements - Ask EQ - Free Stuff - Stitched With Love - STASH Fall 2000 - Works For Me - Benni Harper Lessons - Show & Tell - Author! Author! - BlockBase - EQ Holiday Card - Quilt University - YesUCan - Perfect Tool.



Show & Tell
News from our talented users

Lucky Clover, Indeed! That's the name of the EQ-designed quilt by Marianne Wise - one of only thirty-two juried into the show "Second Impressions: Quilter's Celebrate Cocheco Fabrics" exhibition. The show was open to quilts made mostly with fabrics from the Cocheco Print Works Collection from the American Textile History Museum and reproduced by P&B Textiles. The quilts will hang from August 19 through December 31, 2000, in the museum, located in the historic textile mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts. This quilt was only the second quilt Marianne had designed in EQ.

Lynn Dash used EQ4 to design the Quilt for a Cure quilt shown on the cover of June's McCall's Quilting. "I am still using EQ4 for nearly everything I design," she writes. She'll begin designing the 2001 Quilt for a Cure as soon as she sees Bonnie Stratton's new fabric line. [In STASH Fall 2000] One of Lynn's most recent published EQ4 designs was In Full Bloom with RJR's printed sateen which ran in McCall's. "EQ was especially helpful in playing with turning the blocks to see the various secondary designs, writes Lynn.

Dorothy, the Wizard of EQ - "This is my seventh year of quilting as well as my seventh year with EQ! , writes Dorothy Milligan, of Hemet, California. "My very first entry in competition won Best of Show at the local fair (where there is little competition) in 1994. That really sparked my interest!" We asked Dorothy to tell us more.

"I have lost count as to the exact number of quilts that have won awards or been published. I think it's about thirty five. Several have won more than one award. And I have had about 26 blocks that have won awards, all designed in EQ of course. My blocks and/or quilts have been published in twenty different issues of magazines. Quilting Today, Quilt,Traditional Quiltworks, Quilters Newsletter Magazine, Miniature Quilts, Miniature Quilt Ideas, and Country Quilts."

To see Dorothy's latest designs check out Quilting Today, #79 for her Flying Geese block, and the #80 issue showing her Lion block in the Cat quilt. She's also featured in Quilter's Newsletter Magazine issue #325. "Look for the biggest block with all the stars and butterflies in the "Block Party." And she was a double-winner in Quiltmaker magazine's "Diamonds" contest. Look for her "My "Diamonds- A Gem of a Quilt" in issue #75. "Couldn't have done it without EQ!"

Elizabeth Spannring , of La Center, Washington won Best of Show among the 221 quilts juried into The Great Pacific Northwest Quiltfest exhibition in August 2000. "Of course I designed my quilt using EQ4!," writes Elizabeth. "Sill jumping up and down with sheer excitement! (You should see how BIG the ribbon is!!!) Oh, I won $500 and a new Bernina 170 Artista Quilter's Edition, too!"

I am forever entering contests (don't know why) but I just got a letter from Keepsake Quilting today. I didn't win their challenge, but they are including a picture of my quilt from their Blue & White Challenge (April) in their Summer 2000 catalog. The quilt was designed in EQ4. "Pennsylvania Dutch in Blue Nancy Miller in SC

Pat Tribbey's Angel block was a runner-up in Fairfield Processing Corporation's "Touched by Angels" contest. Winners' and runner-ups' blocks will be made into quilts that will tour the US, per request from fabric stores and guilds. Pat is from North Lauderdale, Florida.

Sarah Hahn, 9 year old daughter of Linda J Hahn, won first prize in the Peddlars Village Quilt Competition's children's category in Lahaska, Pennsylvania for her quilt called "Sarah Hahn - A Repeat of Color" Linda writes, "Sarah began helping me quilt when she was four. She's now quilting and creating wearable art with me. Sarah designs her quilts using EQ4 before she sets out to purchase her own fabric." Her "Repeat of Color" quilt, in batik fabrics with metallic thread, was also exhibited at the State Quilt Build of New Jersey show in November of 1999. The Hahns live in Manalpan, New Jersey.

Ginny Massey, of Tulelake, California, has started publishing patterns, Quiltin' Kits, designed on EQ4. See them on the web page http://www.quiltin-kits.com "We have used a design created using EQ4 for the pattern covers, as well as the picture on the main web page and been very happy with the results. Again my thanks to the folks at Electric Quilt for their wonderful program and the great support I get from the Info-EQ list.

Barb Vlack was profiled in the Winter 1999 issue of The Quilting Quarterly, The Journal of the National Quilting Association. The article, "Computer Savvy Quilter - Barbara Vlack," Describes "Vlack's enthusiastic and irrepressible personality plus the stunning collection of quilts she's made." We couldn't have expressed it better! Barb's the author of EQ4 Magic, and is a also a Forum moderator on the EQ Web site. Visit the site to register for the Forum. Then you can ask Barb a quilt design question, and receive an answer, on this page: http://www.electricquilt.com/Support/MessageForums/MessageForums.htm

Sarah Hahn, age 9, had her EQ4 quilt, A Repeat of Color, juried into the Primrose Gradations Children's Challenge at the Ft Washington show . Her proud mother, Linda Hahn also got two quilts into the show, both of which were also designed in EQ4. Linda J. Hahn www.geocities.com/lindahahn/

Marion Watchinski has a "Square-in-a-Square" scrap quilt in issue #69 of Traditional Quiltworks magazine. She writes, "It's nothing fancy, but I used a streak-of-lightening setting, which, when I first got EQ4, I couldn't figure out how to do! I asked the Info-EQ list for help, and, of course, they came through!

Donna Stenneche, of Gretna, Nebraska, is a double Hoffman Challenge winner. In 1999 her quilt was selected as a Curator's Choice. This year she won 2nd place in the Mixed Quilt Division. I used Sew Precise to size the paper pieced border to exactly fit the perimeter of the quilt, she writes.

CONTENTS: Announcements - Ask EQ - Free Stuff - Stitched With Love - STASH Fall 2000 - Works For Me - Benni Harper Lessons - Show & Tell - Author! Author! - BlockBase - EQ Holiday Card - Quilt University - YesUCan - Perfect Tool.