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One More Easter Egg Tutorial

3/27/2015

 
As you may have read in the last post, I have no experience using EQ Stitch.  I don't even have an embroidery machine.  I did own one for about a year -- but I really struggled with it and decided machine embroidery was not for me.  The post this week, may have me rethinking that decision.
I knew I wanted to offer the option of embroidery designs in the exchange as they really provide a wonderful way to decorate these eggs.  Since this wasn't my area of specialty, I reached out to Yvonne Menear.  She is an expert in using EQ Stitch and has even written the EQ Stitch Companion Book offered through Electric Quilt.

I was ecstatic when she agreed to create a video on decorating an Easter egg using EQ Stitch.  This video covers creating the egg, creating an applique design, adding embroidery, and then creating redwork. And all in six minutes.  This woman is seriously talented.  Click on this link for the video.
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Are you hooked?  I was amazed at how easy this appears to be. I am rethinking whether I need an embroidery machine and this softwear.

Yvonne Menear Additional Information

Yvonne Menear is an international speaker and educator for the home sewing industry. She concentrates on teaching quilting, machine embroidery, quilt design, digitizing machine embroidery, and teaching basic computer skills for the home sewer.

Yvonne has become the EQStitch guru for The Electric Quilt Company. Her expertise has helped in the development of the EQStitch digitizing plug-in, as well as provided great learning outlets for users, through classes, lectures and retreats, a YouTube channel, an EQStitch Yahoo Group, a Learning EQStitch book and online classes at EQ University.

Her Website:  http://www.yvonnemenear.com/
  • From her website, you can sign up for her podcasts and for her blog feed.

EQ University Classes:  Yvonne offers two online classes using EQ Stitch.  Click on the images below to get a complete class description and register.
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Electric Quilt Books and Software
  • EQ with Me: Learning EQStitch
  • String Art Embroidery Designs Download(requires EQ Stitch)
  • Wool Felt Applique Designs Download (required EQ Stitch)

Easter Egg Exchange - Final Call

Just a reminder that your Electric Quilt and Art and Stitch Designs are due by this Tuesday.  Send them to me at onpointquilter@comcast.net.

If you need more information, please check out one of the following blog posts:
  • Easter Egg Contest
  • More Easter Eggs 

I look forward to seeing your designs.

Happy quilting.

Kari


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More Easter Eggs

3/20/2015

 
Last week I did a video in Art and Stitch that showed how I drafted an Easter egg and made the design continuous so I could easily stitch it out my my longarm.  I haven't heard from many of you.  I'm hoping it was the nice weather or maybe spring break.  It is still not to late to create your own decorated egg.

For those that were having some issues with the video, I have a suggestion.  Make sure you click on the title of the post before running the video.  I found when I did this, I was able to run it on my desktop, tablet and even my old 4S Iphone.  If it still doesn't work, you may want to try a different time of day (when the internet in your neighborhood is a little less busy).   I personally will try to have shorter videos going forward; as I also suspect that is part of the issue.

Electric Quilt Applique Easter Egg

As promised, this weeks video will show how I created an applique Easter egg using Electric Quilt.  There are tips for rotating a tracing object along with getting a perfectly sized zigzag in the applique section.
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Easter Egg Contest (really this is just an exchange)

As I mentioned last week, I am sponsoring an Easter Egg exchange.  Please feel free to submit either an Art and Stitch Design or an Electric Quilt (applique or embroidery) design.  Do you need some ideas for decorating your egg -- try a Google Search.  There are lots of options out there.
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Here are the guidelines:

Anyone who submits a design is a winner (but you must submit a design to win).  Those who submit a design will have access to a members only page on my website.  From this page they can download files from all the exchange participants.  However, you must have the source software to be able to use the file.  If you do not submit a design, you will not be able to receive the files.

Once you have completed the design, label it with your name. Send me the file at onpointquilter@comcast.net.  


For those using EQ Stitch, please send me a PJ7 file.  (If you attached stitches, you can send the P7E file as well.)  To create the PJ7 file, click File>Export Project as PJ7 (No Stiching).

Due date is Tuesday, March 31st.
Here are the files with the basic egg shape.
  • Art and Stitch
  • Electric Quilt 7  (This can be found in the motif tab.)

National Sewing Day

Are you celebrating National Quilting Day today?  I will be celebrating by meeting with one of my small groups for a bit of sewing and some serious fun.

Happy quilting.

Kari

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Easter Egg Contest

3/13/2015

 
Last week, "It's a Quilt Thing" offered a free digital pattern for a quilted placement.  "Welcome Easter" has chicks and bunnies which can be colored with Crayola Crayons.  The coloring can be made permanent by heat setting the crayons with a warm iron.  Or, if you would like to use them again next year, you can just wash them.

I immediately needed to put some muslin on my machine and stitch out a number of those placemats.  Then I had a little room left on the muslin and decided I needed a couple of oval placemats as well.  I needed to do some modification of the design to make it work for the ovals.  I found this worked best in Art and Stitch.

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Welcome Easter Quilted Place Mat by Kari Schell. Design by It's a Quilt Thing.
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Welcome Easter Oval Place Mat. A variation of a design by It's A Quilt Thing.
Then I thought -- what if I just placed the bunny in an egg shape for a small "mug rug"?  Back to Art and Stitch.  
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Rug Mat by Kari Schell. (The bunny is by It's a Quilt Thing.)
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Colored Bunny by Kari Schell

Creating my own Easter Egg Designs

As this was stitching out I began thinking about all the other possible ways to decorate my egg.  Also -- did I want a stitch design or did I want to create applique shapes? Should I do this in Art and Stitch or in Electric Quilt?

I decided to start with some basic zigzags and circles and played in both Electric Quilt and Art and Stitch.
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Electric Quilt Designed Easter Egg Motif. An original design by Kari Schell.
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Art and Stitch Quilting Designed Easter Egg. An original design by Kari Schell.
This week I will share the video showing how I created the Art and Stitch egg (including how I made the stitching continuous). This was why I chose to put my circles in a row.  

Next week I will share how I created the Electric Quilt design.  

If you watch both videos, you will better understand the differences in the drawing tools. 

I share a few new tools in this video including the tracing wizard and transform. 

Easter Egg Contest

Did you ever participate in an Easter egg contest? 

Back when I was growing up, you could pick up your "entry form" from a local store or the newspaper.  Those coloring pages that were completed and turned in were on display at a local business establishment and there were prizes for the best submissions.  I recall submitting my renditions on occasion, but I don't believe I ever won anything.


I'm still pretty sure I wouldn't win any prizes today - check out my colored egg on the right.  :)
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Art and Stitch Easter Egg stitched out and colored by Kari Schell
As I was working on my Easter egg, I thought this would be a fun idea for another exchange.  This one will be open to users of Electric Quilt, EQ Stitch, Art and Stitch, and Art and Stitch Plus.

Anyone who submits a design is a winner (but you must submit a design to win).  Those who submit a design will have access to a members only page on my website.  From this page they can download files from all the exchange participants.  However, you must have the source software to be able to use the file.  If you do not submit a design, you will not be able to receive the files.
Once you have completed the design, label it with your name. Send me the file at onpointquilter@comcast.net.  For those using the embroidery programs, please also send me a screenshot of your finished design as I don't own the embroidery software modules.

Due date is Saturday, March 28th.
Here are the files with the basic egg shape.
  • Art and Stitch
  • Electric Quilt 7  (This can be found in the motif tab.)
How the member only pages work:  When I receive your submission, I will set you up as a member using your current e-mail address. You will receive an email asking you to set a personal password for the site. I will link your email address with the private page. You will need to log in on my site to be able to access the private page.  Membership is only required for the private pages.

The login button will change to "My Account". You will then be able to choose the page to access. 

I will post pictures of the submitted designs on an upcoming blog post with your name (but will not provide access to the files).

Etsy Shop Now Open

I have one niece that is "coloring" age -- and 10 quilted items.  I need to either adopt more nieces and nephews or find another avenue for these mini quilts.  

So I decided I would offer them on Etsy and am officially opening my Etsy shop.  Here is the link if you are interested in a quilted placemat or mug rug for an Easter gift. 
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Happy quilting.

Kari

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Dreaming of Spring Part 2

3/6/2015

 

Antique Tulip Applique Quilt

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Last week I shared a video on how I drafted the applique blocks in Electric Quilt.  I hope you enjoyed drafting it as much as I did.

This week (as promised) I want to share how I did the layout in Electric Quilt.


Have you use the clip block feature before?  In a layout like this one, I find it useful.  Here is the final quilt (EQ rendition).  If you end up making the quilt, I would love to see photos.
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St. Cloud Heritage Club Meeting

Thursday evening I was privileged to be able to present my lecture on Specialty Rulers to the quilt guild in St. Cloud.  

It was also fun to get first peak at their raffle quilt -- it was amazing with over 3000 pieces in it.  I am looking forward to attending their show next fall. 
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Heritage Club Quilters 2015 Raffle Quilt
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Heritage Club Quilters Guild Meeting

God's Light Warms the Soul

I am currently exhibiting 11 of my quilts in a private showing at North Heights Lutheran Church. The exhibit is entitled "God's Light Warms the Soul". It includes original designs (including Sun Rays, Whim Wham Stars, It's a Mystery and Be My Valentine) along with quilts I made from purchased designs. 

The address is:
     North Heights Lutheran Church
     1700 West Hwy. 96
     Arden Hills, MN 55112

The closing date for the exhibit has been extended until the end of March.  So there is still time to see the quilts!

Elsa and Anna Quilt Update

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The Elsa and Anna panel quilt is now finished.  I even have the binding completed.  This was a lot of fun to quilt with textures for the clothing, and lots of snowflakes throughout the rest of the quilt.  Below are close-ups, so you can get a better view of the quilting.
I received a question on how I lined up the creative fill I completed in Art and Stitch with the actual quilting space on my machine.  True confessions -- I didn't.  I ended up bringing in the creative fill before clipping.  I created a "block" by outlining the clothing using the trace feature on my Intelliquilter.  I then clipped the creative fill using my newly created block.

Featured Pattern - Smiling Irish Eyes

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Are you looking for a quilt to adorn your table or wall for St. Patrick's Day.  My Smiling Irish Eyes quilt can be purchased at your local quilt shop or directly from my website.

These miniature quilts have an Irish theme – shamrocks, a Celtic quilt block and Irish chain blocks.  Instructions provide for oversized units that are cut down with the use of the recommended rulers.  This makes miniature quilts a breeze.  The table topper finished 21" x 21" and the vertical wall quilt finished 8" x 20".

Recommended optional tools include:
  • Perfect Corner Ruler from Forever in Stitches, LLC
  • Tucker Trimmer 2 from Studio 180 Design
Happy quilting.

Kari

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