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Sharing Student Successes

12/26/2020

 
​If you have been thinking that 2021 is your year for mastering Electric Quilt 8, now is the time to subscribe to the TKQ Wait List.  There just may be an opportunity to lock in at 2020 prices before the end of the year.  But you must be on the wait list to hear more.

Christmas Quilts

I've always loved making Christmas quilts over the years -- sometimes from purchased patterns and sometimes my own designs.  Here is my collection of quilts (photographed in 2005). 

Sharing Student Successes

In a year filled with a lot of challenges for all of us, I love celebrating the successes of people in my classes.  Seeing their drafted quilts just makes me feel happy.  Enjoy the virtual show.  

Tech Know Quilters Masters Challenge

Who has a roll of jelly rolls strips and are struggling with what to do with them?  Jelly roll strips are 2-1/2" x width of fabric.  So if you don't have them, they are super easy to make from your own fabric stash.

TKQ Masters members were challenged to design a quilt that would would be 2-1/2" strip friendly.  Here are their quilts.
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Marlu Allan 48 x 48 block/quilt.
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Marlu Allan 48 x 48 block/quilt.
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Nancy Duggar Weeks I just obtained the navy blue fabric and finishing the quilt is my goal. The stars and border are all jelly roll.
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Kathleen Scargle McCormick The Blues (Moda) 10" block.
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Kathleen Scargle McCormick I cleaned up the block from earlier, and then made 3 colorings of the block. Rotated the block...used the ombres for the border. 10" blocks, 2" borders, 38" x 48".
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Maureen Feron Pinwill All of the the pieces within the block are made with a section that isn't more than 2" in width. Some of the strips are divided by cutting with straight lines and others using a diagonal cut. The heart section is made first, adding the vertical strips on the side, then addng the horizontal strips to the top and bottom of the block. When going on to design the quilt my idea is to transpose the two central vertical strips every other block so that there is movement in the quilt design and it does not look so uniform.
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Dorothe Ilgner Most of the patches are 2.5 inch unfinished. you would need 27 jelly roll strips, some contrasting fabric and background fabric. One block could be cut from 3 joined strips with very little waste.
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Nancy Haddad Lacey 16" block
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Nancy Haddad Lacey Jelly Roll Quilt
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Nancy Haddad Lacey 16" block
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Nancy Haddad Lacey Jelly Roll Quilt
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Nancy Haddad Lacey Jelly Roll Quilt (playing with Symmetry).
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Julie Pedersen 10" block. The four patches are made from honeybuns (1-1/2" strips).
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Linda Carlson I am intrigued with ombre fabrics and solids with textures, as you can see.
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Linda Carlson Jelly Roll Challenge #2.
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Linda Carlson Jelly Roll Challenge #3
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Curryanne Hostetler Jelly Roll quilt
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Curryanne Hostetler -- See how Curryanne started with a series of jelly roll friendly blocks that were used in her quilt.

November Tech Know Quilter 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 November class, they were encouraged to apply what they learned during the month of November. 

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 (which just may happen next Monday).   ​

​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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Dorothee Ilgner My November class was about embellishments. I enjoyed the playful approach and designed a quilt with redwork embroidery and a lot of prairie points on the edge.
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Moira Hewitt My class was easy draw kaleidoscopes, I used serendipity to modify one of the blocks. and loved the secondary design.
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Julie Pedersen I took the Embellishments Class this month. Here is my quilt that combined several of the lessons using the pinwheels, embroidery, and more.
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Nancy Messuri I took the Quilt Layouts class. I played with the Baby Blocks layout and Christa Watson fabrics for this challenge.
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Marlu Allan Working with Precuts
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Anita Barton I studied Mix and Match Medallion Centers and Borders. I enjoyed using serendipity for the center medallion, adding borders and auto borders. I used Twilight Chic by Deb Tucker. So much fun!! Now I am working on directions using Deb Tucker's rulers too.
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Mary McMurray Cannizzaro Just catching up....I played with different log cabin designs to see what would happen. Love the glow created and the asymmetrical log cabin block.

Foundation Friendly Christmas Mystery Quilts

1,300 EQ users joined the free two week challenge to draft a foundation friendly Christmas project.  Here are some of the quilts from participants in the challenge.
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Eva Jones
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Ginger Willis Dalbo
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Karen Copstead
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Kathy Craig Traylor
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Elizabeth Barnett
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Margo Reppert
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Nancy Messuri
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Maryanne Curwood
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Helen Hicks
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Dorothee Ilgner
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Ellen Hruska
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Linda Rossi
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Connie Herbert
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Jackie Rigert
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Kristy Goodin Soard
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Christel Frischmuth
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Linda Carlson
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Lisa Baermann
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Brigitte Lee
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Collien Kaseberg
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Martha Watson
A few started to play with the blocks before the reveal and came up with some amazing designs.
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Karen Eddie Neal
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Camille Lechliter
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Karen Copstead
A few even got started (and finished) piecing their quilts.
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Judy Dunlap
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Joan Calarco Four Trees
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Joan Calarco Four Trees
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Chris Deering
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Dorothee Ilgner
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Sheila Hoh - Angel
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Sheila Ho Four Trees
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Kari Schell -- using plaids and stripes
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Kari Schell Marches de Noel 10" squares
The videos from the Mystery will be available for viewing through the end of December.  ​
Foundation Friendly Christmas Mystery Sign-Up

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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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A Time for Joy

12/19/2020

 
If you have been thinking that 2021 is your year for mastering Electric Quilt 8, now is the time to subscribe to the TKQ Wait List.  There just may be an opportunity to lock in at 2020 prices before the end of the year.  But you must be on the wait list to hear more.

Foundation Friendly Christmas Wrap Up

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Watch the replay of the Big Reveal
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This morning we will be finishing up the Foundation Friendly Christmas mystery with a live Zoom meeting. 

The videos from the Mystery will be available for viewing through the end of December.  
Mystery Signup
Here are a few designs from the mystery that were shared on social media this week.  You can check out more of their designs in the Learning EQ Facebook group.
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Cathy Traylor
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Jan Allston
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Deborah Neubauer
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Diane Constance
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Kay Ahr
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Jan Parker
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Laurel Curnyn
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TerryMcCloskey
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Wanda Smith Hizer
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Camille Lechliter
Foundation Friendly Mystery Sign-Up

A Time for Joy Quilt

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When I was perusing the EQ8 block library, I saw a wonderful block in the holiday collection.  Do you see a Christmas stocking when you look at this block?  I actually saw the letter J.

I then thought about how I could expand on the concept of this block by creating a series of alphabet  blocks with a candy cane ribbon in the block.
I searched the alphabet blocks and found a couple that I thought might work.
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After some playing, I realized I couldn't nicely just add the candy cane stripes.  So I decided to just start from scratch and create the "O" and "Y" blocks in EasyDraw.

My video tutorial this week will share with you how to draw these candy cane blocks for yourself.
This quilt was colored using the Henry Glass Believe fabric collection.
Would you like to piece this quilt.  Click on each image to obtain a download of the foundation pattern printed from EQ8 (9 inch finished size)  ​
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"J" Foundation
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"O" Foundation
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"Y" Foundation
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Sashing Foundation
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Cutting Chart for Borders
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"Joy" Quilt Drafted by Kari Schell in EQ8

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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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Foundation Friendly Snowman

12/12/2020

 
Have you joined the Free EQ8 Christmas Mystery?  We are three videos into the mystery and there are some awesome blocks being created by participants.​  More on that below.

As subscribers to the mystery draft their own blocks they are commenting that "it is beginning to get easier" and "having fun and becoming more confident each day".
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Would you like to have fun and become more confident in using EQ8?
Join the Free Foundation Friendly Christmas EQ8 Mystery
Since I am focused on helping readers creating foundation friendly blocks, I thought I would share a bonus design.  Although not part of the Foundation Friendly Christmas Mystery, this is a great block to hone your foundation piecing drafting skills -- with a little bit of applique to enhance your snowman.   The design would make an super cute stand-alone wall quilt.
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Foundation Friendly Snowman by Kari Schell
To turn the block from the video into a quilt:
  • Create a new quilt with a Horizontal Layout. 
  • The number of blocks is 1 horizontal and 1 vertical. 
  • The block size is 8" x 16".
  • Border #1 is a long horizontal borders with1/2" size.
  • Border #2 is a long horizontal border with 2" size.
  • Border #3 is the binding.  I used a long horizontal border with 1/4" size.
  • The final quilt size is 13-1/2" x 21-1/2".

Foundation Friendly Christmas Mystery Update

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We are three videos into the Foundation Friendly Christmas Mystery and I've enjoyed seeing some of the early blocks.  Here are a few that were shared on social media.  You can check out more of their designs in the Learning EQ Facebook group.
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Christel Frischmuth
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Diane Constance
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Lynda Hutchison
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Gail Kling
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Dorothy Ilgner
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Theresa Justice
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Patricia Pippin Lane
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Helen Hicks Guardian Angels
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Nancy Meyers
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Deborah Neubauer
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Karen Copstead
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Martha Watson
A few even sewed up their blocks.
Sharon Osborne changed the size of her angel to 3" x 5", paper pieced it and inserted it in a photo card.  This would make a wonderful Christmas card.
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Merle Rawson turn her Noel design into a square block and used freezer paper to paper piece her block.
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Foundation Friendly EQ8 Christmas Mystery

Would you like to join the fun?  This is the last opportunity to join this group of creative quilters in creating foundation friendly Christmas blocks and grow your Electric Quilt 8 skill set.

We can get you caught up in 24 hours.

Join the Free Foundation Friendly Christmas Challenge
After joining you will receive an email to super-size your experience with the VIP experience.  One of the benefits of the VIP experience is full foundation patterns (including cutting charts) for each of the foundation blocks. 
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Noel in Plaids 2-3/4" x 11"
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Noel in Marches de Noel 2-3/4" x 11"
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Angel 6" x 4" in plaids
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Angel 6" x 4" in Marches de Noel
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Four Trees 5" x 5" in plaids
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Four Trees 5" x 5" in Marches de Noel

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​Happy quilting.

​Kari

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Free Foundation Friendly Christmas Mystery

12/5/2020

 
Sign Up for Foundation Friendly Christmas Mystery
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My early Christmas gift to you is a free Mystery project.  I will be sharing how to draft six newly designed foundation friendly blocks that would be suitable for a Christmas themed quilt.   You will be the first to see these new designs.

The quilt will finish 17 x 11 -- suitable for framing and small enough to finish in time for Christmas this year. 
I am hoping to make two of them.  With EQ there are plenty of options to make a larger quilter -- so don't feel constrained by my quilt size. 

This free challenge is designed for both beginners to Electric Quilt 8 and those that would like to expand their bock drawing skills to a whole new level. My goal is to encourage you to spend a small amount of time using Electric Quilt each day to allow you to become much more comfortable with the software.

Although the mystery is FREE, you must sign up to receive the video tutorials.  The mystery will start on Monday, December 7th.

You can read more about the mystery here.

Videos to Set Yourself Up for Success during the Upcoming Mystery

The getting started videos are available to all -- regardless of whether you choose to join the mystery.
​I've put together three short videos to give you a head start for the mystery:
  1. Video 1 discussing setting up your EQ file and adding a fabric collection to use in your project.
  2. Video 2 shows you how to import a picture for tracing and draft a practice snowflake block.
  3. Video 3 shows you how to export an EQ Image to Facebook.  I love to see pictures of your progress.
Video 1:  Setting Up Your Project File and Adding Fabrics
In this tutorial, I will share with you how to set up your project for the ​Foundation Friendly Christmas Mystery.   You will also learn how to add fabrics from the library and select a fabric collection from the Moda website and import it into Electric Quilt.

Option 1:  Rustic Christmas

I went through an extremely long plaid period in my quilting journey and decided to create a rustic version of of the project using some of my stash of plaids and stripes.  
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Rather than photographing my fabrics, I chose to design the quilt using plaids and stripes from the EQ library.
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Rustic Collection from Kari's Stash

Option 2:  Marches de Noel

Last weekend Carmen and I visited  Quilters Station in Lees Summit Missouri.  It is a fantastic quilt shop.  They had a number of Christmas Layer Cakes.   A Layer Cake is a collection of 10 inch squares.    I decided to purchase the Marches de Noel layer cake by Moda and will use it as an alternative fabric collection for the mystery.
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Marches de Noel by 3 Sisters for Moda
Video 2:  Import a Picture for Tracing Plus Practice Snowflake Block
In this tutorial, I will share with you how to download an image for tracing.   We will also do a practice foundation block using the tracing image.

If you aren't signed up for the mystery, you may also complete the exercise by saving the image shown here.
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Foundation Snowflake Image for Tracing

Video 3:  Exporting an EQ Block Image to Facebook

When exporting a block you wish to share on Social Media, the process can be different than sharing a quilt.   In this tutorial, learn how to export an image of a block and then add it to a Facebook post.
Sign Up for Foundation Friendly Christmas Mystery
Here is the link the the Learning EQ Facebook post that is referenced in the videos.  
If you haven't enrolled in the challenge, now is the time.  I look forward to working with you to  become more comfortable in drafting your own foundation friendly blocks.  The first block will be sent out December 7th (that is Monday) at 8 am. 
I've been asked by those that are in one of my classes or receive my weekly newsletter if they are automatically enrolled in the challenge.  The answer is NO.  So please sign up using the link if you would like to participate in the challenge.

For those currently in the Tech Know Quilter group, check your emails for your special bonus option for the challenge.
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​Kari

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