Mary Groesbeck Here's my favorite from More Optical Illusions...I'm "piecing" it now. I decided to piece all the striped pieces and then reverse applique them into the circles/triangles. I have beautiful grunges in these colors and am very excited about it. It will be 24" and I will stretch it on a canvas for a wall hanging. The most important thing I got from the class was an expansion of my freedom to just try things and see what happens. This is what I did here--just put things in and if I like them they stayed. It gave me more freedom to just express myself without the restraints of things like reality (the impossible designs from the classes). I've always been willing to color outside the lines, but when designing quilts I felt a little constrained by tradition and what I had seen in the past. I've set myself free with Kari's guidance.

Carol Kendra Been a fun month. Learned about importing fabrics, creating my own libraries and learned to manipulated blocks using rotate and fussy cutting, randomizing and other tools for coloring blocks. Loved every lesson!

Lynne Marmieri This month my lessons were on Modern quilts. I designed this quilt as a 36" square table topper. I have learned so much about EQ8 in the last 7 months and look forward to learning much more.

Rhonda Goss Sampler Quilt

Zdenka Nemethova In July I took Medallion Borders class. I enjoyed each and every lesson. Often had to go over and over the lesson, especially when math was included. Love combination with applique.

Debbi Treusch This class and challenge is great timing. I have a quilt on my longarm with 19 inch triangles in each corner. I used skills I learned from the Encyclopedia of Applique class to create a quilting stencil from an embroidery design. The green is the embroidery design I used and the black swirls are the stencil. I'll print this "quilt" at full size on normal printer paper, then stabilize it with freezer paper for marking on my quilt. Thanks Kari for a great class!! I am much more comfortable now with editing applique patches.

Sue Tapp I had just received a wonderful bundle of fat quarters from my girlfriend for my birthday. I had to put them in this quilt. I was so cool to be able to go to the website and download the fabrics. Actually, I had to use the snipping tool and there is no way I would have known how to do that without these wonderful lessons. I had fun doing some fussy cutting with the plaid material and also "testing" out the different colors in the fabric line until I came up with what was pleasing to me. Thanks so much Kari, you and your classes are top notch! I'm so looking forward to this months classes.

Theresa Weaver I really had fun rotating and fussy cutting fabric. I used The Prairie Meadows collection from the EQ Design Challenge & Giveaway and entered this quilt in the contest.

Dotty Smalley I designed this quilt in EQ8 which was inspired by Nancy Halvorsen's "Imagine" quilt and book. I used my own words and blocks from a variety of sources including some from the EQ library of blocks. It took about 3 months to make because I was working on other projects as well. I have learned so much in all of Kari's classes that it is difficult to enumerate every thing. Perhaps the most important thing I have learned is that I can make my own designs and experiment with ideas with a new freedom. I am currently in the "Masters Encyclopedia of Applique" class and each class has taught me to have fun.

Candy Pfeifer I was in the Mix and Match Medallion Borders class this July. This is my Winter Star quilt. I love how this looks. I've learned so much since I began these classes!

Edith Craig I was in Introduction to Modern Quilts and was intrigued by the optical illusion quilts. This is inspired by them and the quilt can be varied by rotating or flipping the blocks into different overall patterns.

Dorothee Ilgner In July I was in the advanced applique class. In my stash I have a vintage fabric with printed folk art flower motives. I tried and translated these motives into applique blocks.

Julie Pedersen For the Encyclopedia of Applique Class, I created this one using the swags from a lesson. I chose appliques from the Block Library to use.

Karen Humphrey I have been working on a quilt block for ages and it is what inspired me to take the TKQ classes. Working on this advanced EasyDraw lesson last night gave me an ah-ha moment and I was able to create the closest block to date. I was so please...btw I stayed up until the wee hours of the morning to work on it. The repeat isn't perfect but that's ok, I have a path forward. I can't wait to finished this module as it's been super helpful in my quest.

Joyce Holley Her pre-cut quilt using a jelly roll and a layer cake.