I love this time of the month. I am able to go back and revisit all the awesome projects created by Tech Know Quilter members during the previous month. The hard part is figuring out what to include in this post -- as this is such an incredibly talented group of designers. Apply What You Learned Challenge for JuneAt the end of each month, Tech Know Quilter's members are challenged to share a block or quilt that demonstrates what they have learned during the last month. Some will add a personal touch to a lesson or series of lessons. Others will create a block or quilt from scratch -- which really cements the concepts being taught. Wanda Jewell This is one of the classes that I was really interested in taking. I design Boston Terrier and Boxer Blocks for my Rescue Quilts that I donate to different Boxer and Boston Terrier Rescues that I am friends with from my rescue days. I often draft a block from a photo of a dog by hand on paper, then use that design to draw out my templates. Using EQ to draw and then being able to print templates will hopefully make my designs faster from concept to actually putting them into a block. Although it looks like I am gonna have a learning curve before I can get them to look really good like my hand drawn ones do. Anyway, the block I designed for this month’s challenge is NOT from a photograph. It is from me using the shape tools and tweeking the shapes into the shapes I wanted them to be. It was a lot harder than it looks. If you do a close up on the eyes, I think I did a really great job with them, The shape of the head and ears, not so much, but I think they will get better with practice. I need to figure out how to make the legs look better too. But everything takes practice so… practice, practice, practice will be my mantra until I get it down pat. This month’s quilt uses the vine blocks that we learned in your Intro to Applique Class that I deleted and inserted modified flowers and leaves until I was happy with them. I did one vine with just leaves as I had put 2 flowers in the other ones and I didn’t want it to be too crowded. I am very happy with the way it turned out. I even got some of the leaves to overlap the inner border that we made in the block. I placed the Boston Terrier that I made in a Churn Dash block. My Granny always called that one Hole in the Barn Door. He is off center on purpose as a Boston would never lay right in the middle of the design, they would be at a crazy angle. Here is my Boston in a Barn Door Quilt. I am very pleased with it since I did not think that I would be able to do a Boston Terrier that looked good. I think he looks pretty doggone good for a first time drawing on EQ. 😊 Thank you so much for teaching me how to do this. I am hoping that the intermediate Applique lesson isn’t too far away. Then on to the next advanced one after that. I can’t wait to be able to whip out applique quilts on EQ8 with the precision that some of the ladies in past Challenges have done. I can’t decide which of these 2 I like the best, so I am sending them both to you. 😊 Other EQ Designs and Quilts by TKQ MembersAfter pulling the submissions for the challenge, I enjoy going through the other posts from the last month in the TKQ private Facebook group. This is an incredibly talented group of quilters and here are a few of my favorite pictures shared last month. Would you like to join the community? Tech Know Quilters membership is currently closed -- however there is a wait list so that you can be notified the next time it opens up. I hope you enjoyed the show!
Last week, I shared a post on creating a swirling four patch block using EasyDraw. If you missed that post, you will want to check out the post and video, as we will be supersizing our work from last week.
Suzanne Golden shared her ideas for using this block in a couple of quilts.
This block has even more possibilities. The large square in the center is conducive to creating a merge block. Merge blocks is a feature under the Serendipity options in the Block Worktable.
As an extra bonus the merged blocks would work well in a sampler quilt. In my video tutorial, I will my process for creating the blocks and the quilt.
Here is one of the merged blocks created with serendipity.
Here is the sampler quilt from the video.
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Shoot for the Stars is designed to get you started with Electric Quilt 8 through training delivered straight to your inbox. This series includes 14 short (ie. 5-10 minute) videos delivered over the course of a month allowing you to learn the basics of this complex program in bite size increments. The class is currently on sale for $35 (regular $50). Join now. I am enjoying some time with my sewing machine and a great group of quilters at my guild's quilt retreat. I will be back to work on Monday. So there is an abbreviated post today. Recently I was interviewed on the It's a Tribe Thing podcast about my story behind the creation of Tech Know Quilters. Would you like to listen in? Although the Tech Know Quilter's membership is currently closed, I have created a wait list, so that you can be the first to know when I reopen the membership.
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