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Pandemic Ghost Parade

10/31/2020

 
I am not sure how many trick-or-treaters will be out and about tonight.  But my group of ghosts from the the Ghost Parade blog post on October 26, 2018 decided they needed to wear masks to protect both themselves and the houses they plan to visit.
Here is the original Ghost Parade tutorial.  It covers drafting a foundation friendly ghost block and placing and resizing the basic ghost block for a custom set quilt using Electric Quilt 8.  Thank you to Nancy Witte, who provided me the inspiration for this quilt.
Here are instructions to modify the block to add a mask.  The updated quilt was colored with the Hocus Pocus fabric from Robert Blake.
Here is the quilt from the 2nd video.
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Tech Know Quilters Virtual Quilt Show

Tech Know Quilters is a membership of Electric Quilt 8 owners who are mastering Electric Quilt through online training.  At the end of their September class, they were encouraged to apply what they learned during the month of September. 

Tech Know Quilters is open to new members only a few times a year.  You can sign up for the wait list here and we will notify you of the next open enrollment period..   ​
I love having people at different stages of the EQ journey submitting designs.  I am so proud of this group of quilt designers.
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Alice Hertel This is a square center medallion I designed in EQ for a quilt round robin I have joined.
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Alice Hertel Here it is all pieced and is making the rounds. I won't see it again until it has been passed to 7 other quilters. Each will add a border. How fun!
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Diane Cluever This is a Modern Bargello Quilt I designed. Really enjoyed the Bargello Unit, and can't wait to learn more!
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Marlu Allan A single panel quilt embellished with applique and wreathmaker.
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Julie Pedersen I took the Reproduction Quilts 2 class. I enjoyed it. This is my first coloration of my "Apply What You Learned Challenge". I incorporated blocks from various lessons in this class to make the design. And as usual, I had to see how I could change the look by changing the colors (it rarely fails to impress me how that happens.)
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Julie Pedersen Coloration 2 and a slight variation of the blocks.
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Linda Carlson This quilt I entered into the EQ monthly contest is called Illuminated Color Wheel Illusions. All fabrics except black are from the Illusion collection.
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Irene Floyd I took the Mix & Match Medallions class this month. I enjoyed using the Polydraw tools to make curved designs. Here is one of my quilts.
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Yvonne Sluce Easygoing Hexagons Challenge -- I turned the hexagon into square blocks after watching the help session.
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Jackie Rigert First quilt designed in EQ with my own fabrics added
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Evelin Beck I made a design for a quilt with a dream big panel. I've already sewn the top together.
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Evelin Beck Pieced top -- ready for applique.
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Carol Mallozzi I save pictures from either Pinterest or Facebook and wanted to reproduce one in EQ. I decided that all the blocks would be 3".
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Carol Mallozzi Inspirational Photo (artist unknown).
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Mary Rommel Hutteman This is a mix and match medallion center using a different serendipity choice set on point with two borders added.
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Irene Floyd This is my version of Cabin in the Woods. I really enjoyed playing with color options and created several blocks for the border. I'm only on Class 3 (Mix & Match Medallion Borders) but have learned so much!
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Debbi Treusch I took the Design to Production class this month. I picked some paper piecing tips that I applied to a quilt in progress. The quilt is 4 identical 8 X 8 quadrants and almost all blocks are paper pieced. I'm doing paper piecing in sets of 4 blocks. Each bag has 4 blocks with foundation templates and rotary cutting for each patch. The tips I picked up for calculating the number and size of the patches are really helping this to go along faster and with less cutting/piecing mistakes, especially on those really odd angles. Great class!!
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Rhonda Goss What I learned in panels and t-shirts class
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Lisa Ward Starting from a pretty basic bargello block and then playing with Serendipity and Symmetry generates very interesting designs. This is the original strip pieced block:
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Lisa Ward Quilt Options 1-4
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Lisa Ward Quilt Options 5-8
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Elisa Welch Cossey-Brock This is one I created from learning how to use the arcs. I like to go in and create a block not connecting it to any other block. Then I go put several on a quilt and twist and turn. So much fun. Amazing what you can come up with
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Linda Carlson I switched some blocks from a quilt created in various lesson in the Reproduction 2 class.
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Kristy Goodin Soard Meadowland quilt.
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Kristy Goodin Soard I designed and actually finished sewing together the back for my Meadowland Quilt. One critter per grandchild was the impetus for the design.
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Joy Hegglund
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Joy Hegglund Close Up
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Joy Hegglund Quilting
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Joy Hegglund Back
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Curryanne Hostetler 4" block quilt done and ready for the quilters.
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Nancy Haddad Lacey Acrylic Addiction Quilt
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Joyce Drenth I completed my last 3 autumn mini quilts for Christmas presents. As usual, they became altered from my original design due to materials on hand.
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Pat Harkins I have been playing with this design called Cabin in the Garden. I have (5) 12 block log cabin kits. The blocks finished at 9 5/8". The kits are packed in the RV but I wanted to see if the pre-cut pieces would work for this design and what sized finished block worked best with the pieces. I will have to add a fabric for the longest pieces but these are 13" finished. 4 blocks make the log cabin.
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Curryanne Hostetler Finishing my 4' block quilt borders (I am a hand piecer thus the time it takes but this way I pray over the quilt.)
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TKQ Masters Create an Original Quilt Inspired by Another Quilt Challenge

In September Tech Know Quilter's Masters members were challenged to find a quilt they liked and use it as inspiration to design their own original quilt.

​Tech Know Quilter Masters members have completed at least 12 months of classes in Tech Know Quilters and are some of the more advanced members in the group.
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Julie Pedersen Inspirational Quilt -- Centennial Squares
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Julie Pedersen Inspirational Quilt Oma's Quilt
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Julie Pedersen Design - Oma's Centennial Squares
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Dorothee Ilgner I chose to replicate a turkey track quilt.
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Inspiration Turkey Tracks quilt from the International Quilt Museum
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Dorothee Ilgner My inspiration for this quilt was one made by Ulrike Buckey and was found on the Quilt Index.
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Ulrike Buckley Christmas Star quilt from the Quilt Index
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Kristy Goodin Soard This quilt was started by my mother and finished by me after her passing. She had not planned on the prairie point edge, so I honored her wishes and went with a basic binding. Also, I hand quilted this treasure as she would have done.
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Autumn Leaves from the Quilt Index
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Linda Carlson Here is my EQ rendition of the Gordian Knot/Carpenter's Square. The original had a 50 dogtooth appliqué border, but to save my sanity, I made this a 30 dogtooth pieced border. The royal Gordian Knot logs are pieced as though they are woven over or under the white logs.
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Linda Carlson This is one of my antique quilts I donated to the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, NE as part of the Linda Giesler Carlson and Dr. John V. Carlson collection over the past decades. It came to me with the name Carpenter's Square, but it is also known as Gordian Knot.
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Joy Hegglund Inspirational Quilt
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Joy Hegglund Redrafted Quilt
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Joy Hegglund final quilt
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Joyce Drenth I've been fascinated by the Wayward Wind block and modifications to it. Here is my modern take via modification to add interest.
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Chic Country Quilt inspiration.
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Nancy Haddad Lacey One of my favoite patterns is snowball and 9 -Patch. I wanted to see what it would look like if I used some curved piecing.
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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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F is for Fall Applique Drawing Tools

10/24/2020

 
Today I will finish up the F is for Fall quilt by drafting two new applique motifs -- a leaf and a pumpkin.  You will have an opportunity to use the Bezier Curve, Freehand and Brush Stroke in drafting these blocks.

​If you missed the first tutorial on creating the layout along with adding the text, you can catch it here.  

If you missed the second tutorial on importing clip art for tracing and drafting an acorn and apple block, you can catch it here.
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F is for Fall Week 1 - Quilt Layout
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F is for Fall Week 2 Blocks
Here are the blocks and quilt from this weeks video.
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F Block with Falling Leaf
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L block with a luscious pumpkin
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F is for Fall Applique Quilt by Kari Schell
This was a simple quilt to piece.  I recently was at a mini-retreat with four friends.  It was so much fun catching up with my friends and having some actual sewing time.  And I just finished the binding, so I could share a picture with you.

I used my Cricut Maker to cut the letters and applique motifs.  I absolutely love using the rotary cutting blade with the cuter for perfect shapes.  I used a blanket stitch on my sewing machine to sew around all the applique shapes.
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F is for Fall Quilt using a variety of batik fabrics by Kari Schell

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​Kari

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Tracing Clip Art

10/17/2020

 

F is for Fall Applique Quilt Continues

Last week we got started on designing the F is for Fall quilt.  This cute table runner combines text with some simple applique shapes. 

​If you missed the first tutorial on creating the layout along with adding the text, you can catch it here.  
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When learning to use the applique tools in Electric Quilt, it is useful to trace other drawings.  I created a series of clip art images with fall images that you can use for this exercise.

Download each of the four clip art images below and import them to your My EQ8 folder.  If you like to work with sub-folders, set up a sup-folder and label it F is for Fall and place the clip art in this folder.  

To copy the images, right click on each image.  Select either "save picture as" or save image as" -- this will vary depending on your browser.  Navigate to My EQ8>Images folder.  Type in a name and save each image.
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Acorn Clip Art by Kari Schell
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Apple Clip Art by Kari Schell
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Leaf Clip Art by Kari Schell (a slight adaption from a motif in the EQ library)
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Pumpkin Clip Art by Kari Schell
Watch the video to get my tips on using the Bezier tool -- one of the applique tools when creating applique motifs.  I recommend using this tool when starting to create your own applique shapes, as you control the nodes by clicking and holding at the start of each arc segment and releasing at the end of each arc segment.  This will give you nodes just at the start and stop points.  You can always add more nodes by double clicking on the arc segment.  You can edit the arc segments by moving the arcs or moving the handles for each segment.

Having an image for tracing gives you a guideline when cleaning up placement of each of the arc segments.
Here are the completed blocks from the video.
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Acorn Block designed by Kari Schell
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Apple Block designed by Kari Schell
The original plan was to cover all the applique shapes in one video -- but the video ended up super long.  So the remaining blocks will be covered next week.  If you would like to get a head start in drafting them, go ahead and use the same principles from this video tutorial to trace the images shared above.

EQ8 Drawing Blocks Book

In the EQ8 Drawing Blocks book, I go into using the applique tools in much more detail.  And we include step by step instructions for using all of the tools.
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Applique Blocks from EQ8 Drawing Blocks
There is an entire chapter devoted to applique.  Learn to use the Draw and Shapes tools to create unique applique patches, use WreathMaker to make beautiful designs, modify a block from the library to make it your own, trace an antique quilt block, and more!
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You may purchase directly from me (with the option of a signed copy) or from Electric Quilt.  Book is currently on sale for $27.95.

I only ship within the US.
Purchase EQ8 Drawing Blocks

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​Kari

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F is for Fall Applique Quilt

10/10/2020

 
A little over three years ago, I created an embroidery quilt entitled F is for Fall.  The quilt was completed in EQ Stitch and used embroidery for all the blocks.  I decided to rework the quilt and replace the embroidery with applique.

This week I will share the layout design (plus adding the text).  Next week, I will share creating the fall motifs. 

My plans are to use my Cricut Maker to cut out the applique (including the text) for a quick fall project.
Here is the quilt from the video.  All ready for my fall-related applique motifs.
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F is for Fall Quilt Layout by Kari Schell

Tech Know Quilters Highlights for the Week

Here are a few designs shared on the Tech Know Quilter's private Facebook page this week.  Each of these quilters moved beyond what was presented in a lesson to showcase their creativity.
Carmen Sidlaruk noted "So many possibilities. I couldn't quit playing with this lesson. I even explored what happens if you do a click and flip of a click and flip block. Fun."  These were just a couple of her shared designs.
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Carmen Sidlaruk
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Carmen Sidlaruk
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Irene Floyd played with different border designs plus Serendipity options during Mix and Match Medallion Borders.
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Linda loved playing with a design in Mix and Match Medallion Centers.
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Christel Frischmuth created this during a lesson in Optical Illusions
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Carol Mallozzi created this from the Fibonacci lesson in Modern Quilt 2. The original Fibonacci lesson was developed with Carol Lyles Shaw who has both patterns and classes on Fibonacci designs.
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Cheryl Johnston Bubble and Swirl variation inspired by More Optical Illusions.
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Helen Hicks Halloween panel quilt inspired by T Shirt and Panel Quilts .
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​Kari

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Cabin in the Woods Quilt

10/3/2020

 
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Cabin in the Woods designed by Kari Schell using EQ8
Last week I shared with you how to draft a cabin block in EQ8.  If you missed the post, you will want to go back and watch the free tutorial.
After watching the video from last week, a number of people shared their blocks and quilts with me on social media.
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Margo Reppert
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Christel Frischmuth decided to put curtains in her window.
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Sandy Moffitt
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Sandy Moffitt went a step further and pieced her EQ block. I loved her use of batiks.
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Merle Rawson made some adjustments to reflect her little house in the woods in Australia.
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Curryanne Hostetler decided to all some blocks from her TKQ Calendar Quilts class. Curryanne is a master at sampler quilts.

Finishing the Cabin in the Woods Quilt

This week I added three more blocks for my Cabin in the Woods quilt.
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Log cabin border block by Kari Schell
The log cabin border blocks finishes at 5" x 5".

I plan to use rotary cutting and piecing to construct these blocks.

​Logs will be cut from brown fabric at 1-1/2" strips.

​The red center will be cut 2-1/2" x 2-1/2".
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Shrink and Flip Trees by Kari Schell
The Shrink and Flip tree block finishes at 10" x 10".  Each tree is 5" x 5".

​The shrink and flip trees would also be conducive to rotary cutting and piecing.  Or you could foundation piece the trees, if that is your preferred construction method.
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Corner block with tree and star by Kari Schell
The Tree and Star corner block also measures 10" x 10". 

The star section is 4" x 4" and you could use your favorite method of constructing flying geese units for the star points.

For the tree I plan to use the rotary cutting instructions from EQ.
Here is the Cabin in the Woods final quilt designed in EQ8.  The quilt would be fun to scrap piece.  I am still trying to decide if I want to to pull in some fall colors for the trees or stick with the greens.
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See how to draft the remainder of the blocks along with the layout for the Cabin in the Woods quilt in this video tutorial.

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​Kari

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