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Independence Day Stars and Stripes Celebration

6/29/2024

 
The 4th of July (Independence Day in the US) is just around the corner.  I will be sharing one of my favorite red white and blue quilts in this weeks EQ tutorial.

Also check out the month-end showcase of quilts designed by Tech Know Quilter members.

Stars and Stripes Door Quilt

The quilt I will be sharing with you today, is one that would be super easy to piece, and a cute way to decorate for Independence Day.  If you aren't into red/white/blue quilts, try a different color combination. 

The miniature size (23-1/4" x 6-1/8"), also makes it a fun quilt to hang on a door.
The star blocks are 4 inch finished.  There is something about small blocks that just adds to the cuteness factor.
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4" variable star block (a default block) in the EQ library)
There are two rail fence blocks -- one done in EasyDraw and one in PolyDraw.
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Rail Fence 1 designed in EasyDraw
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Rail Fence 2 Designed in PolyDraw
The fabric used in designing this quilt is from the Bandana Ballad collection by Michael Miller.  The collection is included in Electric Quilts 2020 Stash Download 1 Collection   

Although it is fun to download fabrics directly from manufacturing websites, it is much more efficient getting them directly from EQ as the fabric is always sized correctly and usually cropped to eliminate tiling problems.  

In the video, I also share with you my trick for adding a binding around this quilt.  The binding is added for a visual perspective of my final quilt. 

​I always calculate yardage for my binding separately, using my preferred binding method.
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Stars and Stripes Quilt designed using EQ8 by Kari Schell
Here is my pieced version of this quilt.  It was done many years ago and was gifted to my mother to use as a door hanger in her assisted living facility.
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Stars and Stripes Miniature Door Hanger made by Kari Schell
There are so many possibilities for modifying this design. 
  • Consider swapping the variable star block.
  • Or replacing the rail fence block.
  • Or just using a different fabric collection.

I look forward to seeing that you do with the design.  Feel free to share in the Learning EQ Facebook group.
Learning EQ Facebook Group Post for Stars and Stripes Door Hanger

Tech Know Quilter Showcase

Every month I challenge current Tech Know Quilter members to share a project that showcases something they learned during the previous month.  I continue to be amazed at the creativity of these exceptional quilt designers and am honored to assist them on their Electric Quilt 8 journeys.

Check out their amazing challenge posts for May 2024.
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Wanda Hizer My quilt design from my May class. I participated in the Masters Basket quilt sessions.
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Loronda Schuler This is actually from last month's lesson Master's Special Effects. After discussion on the help session I was able to do this with one of the special effects quilts.
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Julie Smith Reproduction Quilts, Lesson 12. After finishing the colors close to the original, I chose "randomize". I scrolled through the options until I found one that I liked and then "mapped to fabrics". A little work changing those fabrics and this is the result. I really like it! I am learning so much!
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Sherry Kern I used what I learned in the tree making class to transfer file to Inkscape and print FPP sheets to make trees. First one done. Seven more to go. I’m going to put them as side borders on a Bigfoot panel.
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Carrie Z. A quilt that I designed in EQ8 and actually made! The border was foundation pieced.
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Carrie Z. Finished Quilt
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Alice Hertel This was one of serveral quilts I designed in the Modern Quilts 2 class. This was a great class so I know I will cotinue to play and experiment with different blocks, settings, and the incorporation of solid colours with white space. I just love how each block and colour has its own voice.
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Denise Mohler I have learned so much this month!!! I am completely caught up with all the lessons. Here is the my lesson from Harvest Time.... Lesson 5!! I love how my Red Truck turned out.
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Denise Mohler This is from Logs and Swirls which I learned a lot and had fun with lesson 5.
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Denise Mohler This is from Lone Star and LeMoyne Quilts.... I love the movement in this quilt from lesson 7
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Denise Mohler This is from Compass Quilts and from Lesson 3. This is another favorite quilt that I would love to make one day.
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Denise Mohler This is lesson 7 from Letters and Text... Another great lesson and I learned a lot.
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Denise Mohler This one is from More Letters and Text from lesson 7. Great lesson and I was very pleased with the outcome.
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Denise Mohler This is another favorite from One Patch Quilts lesson 6. I learned so much with this lesson.
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Denise Mohler Here's Lesson 7 from Special Effects Library Quilts. I learned so much with this lesson
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Denise Mohler This is from Lesson 4 from May's Basket Quilts. It's just so amazing with everything that all of these lessons can be drafted in EQ8.
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Denise Mohler This is from Lesson 7 of TKQ Masters One Block Quilts. I finally completed this month!!!!
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Denise Gies My class was Introduction to Applique This was from lesson 4. I had fun doing the fussy cutting. I may not ever make a one block wonder, but I can design one! Thanks, Kari Schell. I had some issues with the fabric on one or two hexi's, but after watching the Help Session, I was able to figure it out.
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Patricia Hansen Here is a basket quilt I designed for fun from May's class.
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Marilyn Fettinger I just finished Mix and Match Medallion Borders. My quilt guild was having a panel challenge so I designed this quilt using what I learned about tile borders in lessons 3 and 4. It was really fun to actually make it! The panel is Stonehenge and looks 3D when you put on red/blue glasses.
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Brigitte Lee I really enjoyed this month, it looks like I prefer applique and foundation piecing. This is a layout I did 25 years ago, I will make a pic tomorrow of the quilt. Short of ideas so there are not only baskets.
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Fran Heisey My quilt for Lesson 5 Master Baskets.
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Julie Pedersen This month, I did the Masters Basket Quilt class. Lesson 7 had a challenge to use the baskets that we made in a bookcase. I used a bookcase that I designed earlier to showcase some of the baskets that we made in the class.
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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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Double Nine Patch and Sunflowers

6/22/2024

 
This quilt was inspired by a quilt I saw at the MN Quilt Show last weekend.  They had an amazing exhibit of from the Quilt Study Group on 19th Century Blues - It's More than Indigo.

I saw this quilt by Sandi K. Petsche of Harlan, Iowa. whose quilt was inspired by a quilt by Catherine Snyder, Minneola, Kaansas ca. 1850.
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Sun Flowers and Nine Patch Quilt by Sandi K. Petsche
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Information regarding Sandi Petsche's quilt.
Catherine Snyder's quilt was featured on the cover of Quilters Newsletter Magazine in March 1987, issue No. 190.
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Quilters Newsletter Magazine Cover - March 1987
I decided to create my own version of Catherine's quilt.  

However, I was not in the mood for complicated today.  So rather than drafting the blocks from scratch, I used artistic license and modified blocks that I already had on my computer.

​Hopefully you will enjoy the ease of working with existing blocks.

For the double nine-patch, I modified the default nine-patch in the EQ library.  And yes -- I am sure there is a double 9 patch -- but I could modify the default one in much less time than searching for one in the library.
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Default 9 Patch from EQ8
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Double 9 Patch
I found the Sunflower block by doing a search for Sunflower. 

​The block that appears to be a replica of Catherine's was included in BlockBase+ - an add-on collection of blocks.

If you don't have BlockBase+, consider using a different sunflower block for your quilt.
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Notecard search in the EQ Library
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BlockkBase+ Information on Sunflower Block
I also did a search for Princess to look for the Princess Feather's block. 

While I couldn't find an exact replica, I located this Princess Feathers block.  It was part of Classic Applique: Folk Art collection that I purchased from EQ many years ago. 

I decided to use a modification of the block for the borders of the quilt. 

If you don't have the Classic Applique: Folk Art collection, consider using one of the feather blocks under Stencils.  You will need to add a background -- but the look of the border will be similar.
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Princess Feather Block from Classic Applique: Folk Art Collection
For the border corners, I found a compass star block in the EQ library under 01 Class Pieced>Compasses.  

​I thought it looked very similar to Catherine's corners.
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Compass Star Block from the EQ Library
The trickiest part of the design was getting the border blocks to be the same size both horizontally and vertically.  This did require adding spacer borders.  One was quilt large (4-1/2") -- so I decided to add additional Princess Feathers to complement the design.
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Princess Feather Border Blocks 12 x 6
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Compass Border Corners
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Princess Feather Spacer Border Design
Here is my final quilt.
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Double Nine Patch and Sunflowers Quilt Designed using EQ8 by Kari Schell
Watch the full video here.


​As I mentioned in the video, there are opportunities to swap out blocks (particularly the sunflower and the princess feather).  I look forward to seeing what you do with the design concept.

Feel free to share in the Learning EQ Facebook group.  I've set up a post for your pictures.
Learning EQ Facebook Group Post for Double Nine Patch and Sunflowers Quilt
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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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Best Friends Forever - the Story of a Friendship and a Quilt

6/15/2024

 
I have a special blog post today.  Joyce Drenth and Kristy Soard -- two members of my Tech Know Quilters program collaborated to create two very special quilts which have been shared on The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and at the NSQG Quilt show.

Here is the story of their friendship -- and their BFF quilts - which were designed using EQ8.

Joyce Drenth and Kristy Soard 
​A Friendship that has Spanned Almost 50 Years

Joyce and Kristy were math teachers who both taught at the Turpin Middle School in Cincinnati Ohio.

​After becoming fast friends in 1976, they soon discovered a shared passion for creating.

​In 1983, Joyce moved to the Chicago area.  Joyce and Kristy continued their long-distance friendship using the phone and internet communication.
I became acquainted with both Joyce and Kristy when they purchased one of my EQ7 Classes -- Easy Peasy Easy Draw.  When EQ8 was introduced in late 2017, they both took my intro class (Shoot for the Stars with EQ8) and  joined Tech Know Quilters.  They have been active participants in the program since then, sharing pictures of both their virtual and finished quilts.

I feel privileged that I have been able to get the know them over our years together -- and consider them fantastic quilters and designers.  As well as truly wonderful individuals.
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Joyce D. (during the 80s)
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Joyce Drenth (current photo)
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Kristy S. (during the 80s)
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Kristy Soard (current photo)

Best Friends Forever Quilt Beginning

In the middle of September 2021 Alex Anderson of The Quilt Show online presented a FPP (foundation paper piecing) class as the world was still dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Fabric bundles consisting of  Jennifer Sampou and Kaffe Fassett fabrics were purchased by both Joyce and Kristy.   Many happy colors were included and the world surely needed happy at this stage of the pandemic. 

Alex created a specific pattern for the online group to use; however, Joyce and Kristy decided to create their own quilt together using their Electric Quilt 8 programs.  
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Sampou and Fassett Fabric Bundle

The Design Process

Based on the blessing of their friendship, they determined the quilt name would become “BFF”, shorthand for ‘Best Friends Forever!” 

As they created the quilt, Kristy and Joyce ​remained in close contact reminiscing over the many years of their friendship and what blocks could be utilized to represent those aspects they treasure. 

Early in their friendship, Kristy and Joyce formed a business together with a red cardinal on their calling cards.  From this Kristy suggested they incorporate one bird for each of them to signify that bond. 

As each of them was inspired they would design the block in EQ8, and then eventually they designed a layout to incorporate their meaningful blocks. 

They learned to compress their project into a zip file, and emailed their blocks and the quilt design file back and forth.

Constructing the Quilt

By November, 2021, Kristy and Joyce Zoomed as they edited and modified background cutting diagrams. 

When January 2022 rolled around and they contemplated a start date for the cutting and making to begin, Joyce received a diagnosis of stage 4 breast cancer.  This was shocking news as Joyce had always kept up on annual mammograms and breast ultrasound tests. Joyce became very busy undergoing testing and assimilating all that comes with such a diagnosis. 

On February 24, 2022, Kristy and Joyce finally connected via Zoom to analyze the center “Life Cross” block and the tactile part of the quilt commenced.
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Highlights from the Quilt

The reflections shared here were written by Joyce and extracted from the Best Friends Forever Letter of Provenance.  Most of the images were pulled from their Electric Quilt file.  Scroll down to view pictures of the quilt.
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Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer - The top left block, the hourglass/breast cancer block honors Kristy’s sister, (Kathy Goodin Febus) my mother (Charlotte Beasey Belcher) and my diagnosis during BFF quilt construction.

Kristy shared her butterfly fabric for the breast cancer heart.

​I selected the butterfly as my symbol for gifts to family members and birthday cards for the grandchildren.
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Basket
Basket – The baskets are representative of the early days of our business as we created multiple styles of fabric baskets to sell to florists, boutiques and at craft fairs.
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Pecan Pie
​Pecan Pie - This applique block needed to be in our quilt. Early in our friendship we both felt our family’s recipe was outstanding. Upon comparison, we were both right; it was identical!
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​Dress - Our dress blocks became important from the time period when we were teaching and pregnant. Back in 1980, we sewed most of our clothing. Unbeknownst to each other, we frequently purchased and sewed identical maternity clothing. Imagine our laughter as we discovered our uncanny ability to become twins.
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Math - The top central block represents our professional careers as math teachers. Symbolization of mathematical operations can be seen in the directions of the pieces: the dark multiplication sign, the pink addition sign, fractions abound within the divisions of the block’s pieces.
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Smocking
Smocking - The upper right-smocking block reminds us of our journey into the new world of smocking. This heirloom sewing technique popular in the south produced stunning clothing to be treasured for generations. The flowers are reminiscent of the embroidery stitches typically adorning our sweet little daughter’s dresses. We learned to smock together and visited a smocking shop on the top floor of a beautiful Cincinnati home.
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Illinois
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Ohio Star
We designated sides of the quilt for each of us: Left-me, Right-Kristy.

​To anchor each side, we selected our state block: Illinois for me and Ohio for Kristy.
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Pear Left
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Pear Tree Left
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Pear Right
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Pear Tree Right
Pear & Pear Tree with Bird – These blocks serve as a play on words as we were often referred to as “quite a pair”.

"It’s not about what someone can do for you, it's who and what the two of you become in each other's presence." James Clear
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This could not be exemplified more than in our friendship.
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Joyce's Butterfly Quilting
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Kristy's Owl Quilting
Butterfly & Owl – The astute observer will discover a butterfly and owl hidden within the quilting.

The butterfly found on my side of the quilt signifies my desire to be remembered by all those I love each time they see a butterfly.

​The owl on Kristy’s side is a memory of her daddy. Even though he passed tragically at the age of 38, he still influences her daily life.
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Bee
Bee - The four bee blocks indicate our continual desire to learn, create and ‘bee’ busy. I used a Kreinik cord-winder and black floss to create the antennae and legs of the bees for both quilts.
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Hourglass
Hourglass – These blocks emphasize this driving force behind our lives as well as length of years of our enduring friendship.
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Joyce's Evergreen
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Kristy's Evergreen
Evergreen trees – The four tree blocks represent children we added to our family trees. The top left tree represents my son, Brian. The bottom left tree represents my daughter, Andrea. Kristy’s right side displays the top right tree for her son, Chad, and the bottom right tree for her daughter, Kate.
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Sewing Machine & Spools
Sewing Machine & Spools - Our lives revolve around sewing, and the wool sewing machines portray our first memories of the machines upon which our sewing journeys began.  Our love of using this fabric medium as well as embellishment with embroidery stitches exemplifies past accomplishments. Each old sewing machine rests on spools of thread, a fitting combination. We blended applique, embroidery and piecing into this central position of each side.
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Coneflower Top
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Coneflower Base
Coneflowers – These central anchor blocks represent the love of outdoors, growing not only flowers, but also the lives of our children as they became successful adults. The blocks shared a resemblance to the beautiful New York Beauty quilt block adored by both of us. Again, these shared blocks face the center indicating our continued connection through life.
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Life Block
Life Block –The large cross symbolizes how the intersection of childhood experiences influenced the similarities of our adult lives. At the center of this intersection is the flower where the blessing of friendship blooms. The vines embody the growth of our friendship as our lives intertwined throughout the years.

This central block is framed by Log Cabins upon which many quilters begin their journey symbolizing how we started our friendship simply and nourished it throughout the years. 
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Joyce House
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Kristy House
Homes – The two bounding homes represent our beginning in Cincinnati with homes close by each other. Through time the distance increased, however the closeness of friendship remained. 
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Joyce Bird
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Kristy Bird
​Birds – The birds facing each other on the quilt are reminiscent of the bird we used on our ‘High Spirits’ business card.
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Sunshines
Sunshines – Multiple suns depict the 47 years of friendship we have treasured thus far. We decided that the quilt needed to have the BFF quilted within each of these suns. 
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Tunnel
Tunnel – I moved away from Cincinnati in 1983, yet we continue to speak/text almost daily. Kristy frequently joked that we needed a tunnel from Cincinnati to Chicago.
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Inspiration! We developed a row of homes between our towns creating our tunnel!
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Joyce's Courthouse Steps Border close-up
Border - The beauty of the scrappy Courthouse Steps was designed by Kristy to surround the representation of our lasting friendship.
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Courthouse Steps Border Block
Here is their final quilt as designed by Joyce and Kristy using EQ8.
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BFF Quilt Design from EQ8

The BFF Quilts

The quilts were displayed together at the Northwest Suburban Quilters' Guild in 2023.
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Best Friends Forever Together in NSQG Show - May 21, 2023
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Best Friends Forever by Joyce Drenth
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Best Friends Forever by Kristy Goodin Soard
Joyce quilted her quilt.  Kristy's quilt was quilted by Teresa Silva of Quilting in My Bliss.

A few close-ups of the quilting.  ​
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Kristy's Quilt at an angle to better see the quilting.
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Close-Up of Joyce's Quilting
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Joyce's Quilt Center
Joyce and Kristy created a letter of provenance to explain the purpose and symbolism of each block of their quilt.  Click on the video by Kristy to see their unique inclusion of the letter of provenance on their quilts.
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Label on Quilt
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Front of Label
I hope you enjoyed reading Joyce's and Kristy's story of their amazing quilt -- and friendship.
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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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Twinkle Stars EQ8 Tutorial

6/8/2024

 
I have a new block for you today -- which I am calling Twinkle Stars. 

The block essentially is friendship stars in two corners  with a couple of squares that intersect the friendship stars.. 

Super simple to draft and to piece. 

The block is asymmetrical -- which opens up the design possibilities.

With asymmetrical  blocks, I always like to experiment with the Serendipity>Shrink and Flip option.  You can find this option on the block worktable.  You also have the option to with the Symmetry Option on the quilt worktable.
The Twinkle Star block can be drafted in EasyDraw using a 12 x 12 size.  Set the snaps horizontal and vertical set at 12 x 12.  

When drafting the block, I chose to make all the diagonal lines part of a square unit -- essentially making them all half square triangles.

If you prefer piecing cheater corners (also known as snowball corners and folded corners), you could eliminate some of the horizontal and vertical lines on the quilt. 

When using that construction method, you will want to adjust the rotary cutting chart for the triangles (changing them to 2-1/2" squares) and the trapezoid (changing to rectangles that are 1/2" larger than the finished size of the patch).
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The real fun was playing with rotation options.  There are two ways to add rotation:
  • On the block worktable, use the Shrink and Flip Option.  (This is the one shared in the video).
  • On the Quilt Worktable, use Symmetry.  I used this option on a couple of my alternate quilts.

Here are the Shrink and Flip Blocks created in the video.
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Also consider playing with coloration of the blocks as well.  

For my blocks and quilts I used the At Day's End fabric collection by Sarah Maxwell for Andover Fabrics.  It is the free fabric download from Electric Quilt for June 2024.
Here were the quilts I created using the Twinkle Stars block.

The first two used a 4 x 4 grid with block sizes of 12".  For the first quilt, I used the Symmetry option to change the rotation of the blocks.
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Twinkle Stars Layout 1
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Twinkle Stars Layout 2
The remaining quilts using the Shrink and Flip option in the Block worktable.  This was the option shared in the video.   I used a 2 x 2 layout with a block size of 24 inches. 

​The last one is the one I chose to provide detailed instructions on in the video.

For these quilts, I decided to incorporate the friendship star block in the borders as well.  The basic friendship star block is one of the default blocks in EQ8 Projects -- so no drafting is required. 

For the border, I alternated the friendship stars with a block with 3 columns and 1 row (drawn with the grid tool).  With some coloring changes, it now appears there is a band running through all those border friendship stars.
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Twinkle Stars Layout 3
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Twinkle Stars Layout 4
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Twinkle Stars Layout 5
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Twinkle Stars Layout 6
As you can see, there are so many possibilities with this block.  I am curious how you will play with the design.  

Share a favorite Twinkle Stars quilt in the Learning EQ Facebook group.  I've set up a post just for these quilts.
Learning EQ Facebook Post for Twinkle Stars
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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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Half Hexies - One Patch Quilt

6/1/2024

 
The quilts I am presenting today were inspired by a design by Mary Groesbeck.  Mary is a talented designer.  You can find her patterns at https://www.womancavedesign.com/.  I used a different technique from Mary to create the quilts in this block post. 

Usually when we think about drafting one patch quilts in Electric Quilt, we focus on using the One Patch layout option.  However, I often prefer a different option -- one of which I will be sharing with you today.

The block that I will be drafting is a half-hexagon block.    When drawing a hexagon (or a half hexagon), you need to decide on your base measurement.   The various tools and rulers are typically based on either the width of the block (which is double the size of an edge) or the height. 

The width and height are never the same on a regular hexagon (which is based on an equilateral triangle). 
  • Option 1 is the easiest to understand from a drafting perspective, so I will use that in drafting the block and quilt. 
  • But read on to see how easy it is to convert your quilt to Option 2. 
  • So whatever tool you are using, EQ can give you a correctly sized quilt. ​
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Hexagon Measurement Options
I love using on-line calculators to give me the numbers I need for drafting my blocks in EQ.   My favorite hexagon calculator is here.

It allows you to enter one measurement and select calculate and it fills in all the other measurements.

How simple is that.  Much easier than pulling out those High School geometry books.


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Rechneronline.de Hexagon Calculator
Option 1 Half Hexagon

To calculateHalf Hexagon One Pat the width of a block for a half hexagon quilt, you will need to use the long diagonal and edge length from the calculator as the patches will offset in the block.

For the height you will use the Incircle radius from the calculator.  This is half the Short diagonal or hexagon height.

So for seven alternating half hexagons with a width of 6", the block width will be 33" and the height will be 2.598". 

​These will be the numbers used in drafting a block in EQ.

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Calculation Width and Height of the EQ8 Block
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Hexagon Calculator Calculations for a 6" Width
In Electric quilt, set the snaps horizontal at 11" (every 3 inches) and snaps vertical at 4" (the smallest number allowed).

Use the process outlined in the video to draft the half hexagon block. 
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Half Hexagon Block Drawn in EQ8
For this block, the three top edges will all be 3", the bottom edge (which is the width) 6", and the block height 2.598". 

​Here is the quilt from the video.
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Option 1 Quilt - Half Hexagon Quilt in Black and White Fabrics
The fabrics for this quilt were pulled from the EQ Library>Colors.  I used both colors library 34 White on Black and colors library 33 Black on White.

​The quilt finishes 34" x 21-3/4".

This quilt would be compatible for using the an Accuquilt die or most EPP papers (both of which uses the edge with for sizing their half-hexagons. 
Option 2 Half Hexagon Quilt Variation

After going back to the Hexagon calculator, I obtained the measurements for a half hexagon with a height of 3".  This would allow for using rulers that are based on the hexagon height (rather than the width). 

Often with these rulers we can cut strips 1/2"  wider than the hexagon height and then use the rulers for the cross-cuts.  These measurements would work super well for Star 60 (Studio 180 design), Jaybirds Hex-and-More and even the Half Hexagon rulers from Missouri Star.

To modify the Half Hexagon quilt in EQ, we only need to adjust the block width and height on the Layout tab!  Super simple.  (The adjusted block size is 38.104" x 3".)
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Here is the adjusted quilt from the video.
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Option 2 Quilt - Half Hexagon in Stripe Fabrics
The fabrics for this quilt came from the the Themes library in EQ8.  They were all in 03 Stripes.  I replaced the white and black solid fabrics with a grey and off-white from the Fabric of the Month Download from Do You EQ for April 2019.

​I would love to see your Half Hexagon quilt.  What fabric collection will you decide to feature in your design?  Please share photos on the Learning EQ Facebook group.
Half Hexagon One Patch Quilt Learning EQ Facebook Group
But wait -- there's more...

​One Patch Quilts will always tessellate.  But the Tech Know Quilter Masters members were encouraged to bring their tessellation skills to a whole new level.  Read on for a showcase of the quilts from the tessellation challenge.

Tessellation Challenge

One of the Lessons in the Tech Know Quilters Masters On Patch Quilts class was a tessellation block. 

​A tessellation is an arrangement of shapes closely fitted together in a repeated pattern.

Mary Groesbeck designed this tessellation friendly block.

Tech Know Quilter Masters members were challenged to not only draft the block, but create a quilt using the block.  

​Here are their quilt submissions.  
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Tessellation Challenge Block Designed by Mary Groesbeck
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Wanda Smith Hizer
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Lee Wiencki
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Edith Craig
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Fran Heisey
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Loronda Schuler
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Katherine Martin
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Curryanne Hostetler
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Curryanne Hostetler
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Dianna Carter
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Beckie Lees Belsaas
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Connie Bradley Bobcik
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Brigitte Lee
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Gloria Worthen Jacobs
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Roxanna Khoury
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Margo Reppert
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Renae Frank Butler
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Mary Groesbeck
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Ann Cornett Horsley
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Julie Bermel
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Denise Mohler
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Julie Pedersen
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Kari Schell
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Kari Schell
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Mary Groesbeck
Want to know more about Tech Know Quilter Masters?

Tech Know Quilters members are eligible for the Masters program after completing 12 months of 
Tech Know Quilter classes.  Masters members receive fewer lessons each month, with more time to devote to their own projects and challenges.

Drop me a note if you have completed over 12 months of Tech Know Quilters and are interested in learning more about the Masters program.
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You can learn more about the regular Tech Know Quilters membership program and sign up for the wait list for the next open enrollment period here.
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​Kari

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