What's New? EQ7

Are you a fan of Electric Quilt? Many of you may own it and have't really played with it. However, it's advantages can really save you a lot of time and money. With a little practice, you will be making quilts in no time at all!

Now Electric Quilt has recently annouced that it will realease EQ7 in June 2010. Wow! It looks like it has some amazing advantages. Some include being able to use a digital camera to turn everyday photos into quilt ­­art images. Or crop and edit scanned fabrics right in EQ7 in minutes. And that's just the start!

• 5000 copyright-free blocks
• 5000 new scanned fabrics, plus grayscale textures
• 120 new pre-designed quilt layouts 
• Snap blocks to a Quilt grid
• Instant border blocks with greatly expanded Auto Borders  
• Print multiple photos on fabric  
• Create original fabric designs from photos, then print on fabric  
• Mirror and use myriad symmetries on photos  
• Use dozens of artistic effects, making everyday photos look like watercolors or Impressionist paintings
• 79 new features in all

Plus, it works on netbooks as well as laptops and desktop computers.

 

So stay tuned for more information! Looks like it is going to be fun!

 

OLYMPIC WINNERS

CONGRATULATIONS! After a week of voting, the winners are:
GOLD - Quilt #4 by Nancy
SILVER - Quilt #2 by Julia
BRONZE - Quilt #3 by Jessica

Thanks to everyone would participated and voted. Thanks to all those who submitted prizes. These winners are receiving some awesome gifts and it would not have been possible without everyone's participation! This was a lot of fun!
Please stay connected as I am preparing the next challenge. In the meantime, take a quilt that is just missing a border and put it on. It feels great when you can finally finish that one last detail. And feel free to email me your Show-n-Tell. I just love seeing the projects that people are working on and I am happy to post them to share with others.

Let the Voting Begin

Here are the quilts that were completed for the Olympic Challenge. WOW! I wish I could show you all the amazing quilting that went into these. Please comment and let us know which one is your favorite. Gold, Silver and Bronze prizes will be awarded to the three quilters receiving the highest number of votes. Voting will end on Wednesday, March 17th. Thanks for voting and enjoy our little quilt show!

Quilt 1 by Anna

Quilt 2 by Julia

Quilt 3 by Jessica

Quilt 4 by Nancy

Quilt 5 by Angela

A Tribute to Those who Gave a Huge Effort

This challenge was difficult, especially since it was based on such a short time period. Here are a few pictures of some of the unfinished quilts. I look forward to later posting pictures when they are finished.

Submitted by Kathy S.

Submitted by Toni

Submitted by Karen G.

Submitted by Holly

Time is up

I hope everyone got their quilts finished last night. I am also guilty of finishing under the gun and could not make this post last night. However, I AM DONE!!! YEAH!!!! Several of you are done! YEAH!!! So please email your pictures to me in the next day so I can make one posting with everyone's quilt in it. Then invite all your friends to come out and vote for their favorite quilt.
If you did not finish, we would still love to see your progress. So please send in pictures! Have a great day and congratulations to everyone for a tremendous effort!

Olympic Challenge Update!

Wow! This challenge has not been for the faint of heart. I have heard from many of our participants and the quilt tops are done! However, the quilting is not. Therefore, the group has decided to give one another a 1 week grace period for quilting and finishing up.
Nevertheless, we do have one person who is completely finished and certainly deserves honorable mention. Congratulations to Nancy for her amazing job. You can see her quilt on her blog. http://sassafrashillquilts.blogspot.com/2010/02/finished.html
Please check back next Monday when we will have our Olympic Quilts posted for judging.

UPDATE: Jessica's Crazy 8's Quilt

So, the top is finally pieced, and I have made a little more progress since this photo. It is squared up, and I have the inner boarder sewn on. I keep telling Anna, I might be an Olympic Quilt failure. I have to find some creativity Thursday night to add the second boarder and sandwich the quilt. I have a quilt design picked out, and we will see how that works out. The only catch is that Anna and I are going to the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Fest on Saturday, we are leaving around 4:30, because we are taking a class with Connie Hindermarsh on how to make a mohair bunny rabbit. Anna will probably be sewing her binding on... It just means Sunday might be exciting at the McDermott household... :)