Blog Pop with the On Point Quilter Style

"Welcome to all you "Blog Hoppers" or should I say "Blog Poppers".  I know you have gathered some great ideas to feature in your future Pop Up projects.

Thanks to Jo of Fat Quarter Gypsy for dreaming up the Blog Pop. I also want to publicly thank her for letting me be one of the first designers to create a design that merged a piecing pattern with her Pop-Up pattern.

For those that don't know what a pop-up is, check out Jo's short Facebook video, showing it in action.  I think it is great for holding miscellaneous supplies in your sewing room.

Let's Go Fly a Kite Stacking Pop-Up. Click on quilt photo to be taken to the Store to download a FREE copy of the supplemental pattern.

Quilt from Let's Go Fly a Kite pattern. Click on quilt photo to be taken to the Store to purchase a copy of the pattern.

This pop-up uses the Fat Quarter Gypsy Stacking Pop-Up Pattern, the Fat Quarter Gypsy Medium 8" Spring Refill and On Point Quilter's Let's Go Fly a Kite pattern.  The supplemental pattern (which shows how it all comes together) is FREE.

Electric Quilt 7 Pop Ups

For those that don't know me -- I am big into computerized quilting programs.  My favorites are Electric Quilt for designing my patterns and Art and Stitch for creating digital designs for my longarm.

So for my blog post, I thought I would share with you how to create your own custom pop-up layout using Electric Quilt 7.  Once you have completed this, you can then bring in your own blocks (or maybe use a few orphan blocks laying around your sewing room).

The video covers designs for the Medium spring.  Obviously the concept could be easily adapted for the other sized pop-ups.

Note:   The video is large and can take some time to load.  One thing I found that helps is clicking on the blog title before clicking on the video.

Here are the Pop-Up patterns from the video.

Medium Stacking Pop-Up with 8 inch blocks.

Medium Stacking Pop-Up with 8 inch applique blocks

Medium Stacking Pop-Up with 6 inch blocks

If you design your own Pop-Up panel using Electric Quilt,  please share photos on my Facebook page.

If you would like to learn Electric Quilt to better create your own quilts, I have a couple of Online Instructor Led classes starting on February 23rd.

For my newsletter subscribers, there are discount coupons available for both of these classes.  If you just signed up for the online newsletter and need the coupon "ASAP", just send me a note and I will get back to you with the code.

Introduction to Electric Quilt 7

This online class will cover basic navigation of the software, creating a new project, using the libraries, using Quick Quilts for fast projects, adding borders, coloring tools/fabrics, creating quilt labels and printing quilts, blocks, fabric yardage estimates, rotary cutting and foundation patterns.  By the end of class you will be comfortable working with the program and be able to explore additional features on your own.    Users of all levels are welcome, with special emphasis on beginners.  

Dates:  February 23, March 1,8 and 15  10 - 11:30 am (Central time) (four sessions)

Class size will be limited to 10 participants.  This class will be exactly like taking at "in person" class at a show or shop.   We will use screen sharing technology -- so you will be able to see my screen and if you have specific questions, I will also be able to view yours as well.

​Register here.

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​Easy Draw - New Online Class

Have you ever found the “perfect” block online.  But then realized you wanted to piece it a different way. 

 Maybe you want rotary cutting instructions or a foundation pattern. 

Or maybe you want a different size to incorporate into a different quilt. 

With Electric Quilt you can redraft these blocks. 

This class will focus on how to “read a block” and then come up with the most efficient way to draft it with Electric Quilt. 

​The 22 blocks in this class are those that can be done in a “grid” format – basically just like drawing with a pencil and graph paper.  Within Electric Quilt these blocks are drafted within Easy Draw.  Level:  Advanced Beginner.

Dates:  February 23, March 1, and 8 6:30 - 7:30 pm (Central time) (three sessions)

Class size will be limited to 10 participants.  This class will be exactly like taking at "in person" class at a show or shop.   We will use screen sharing technology -- so you will be able to see my screen and if you have specific questions, I will also be able to view yours as well.

Register here.

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Blog Hop Giveaways

What is a blog hop without a giveaway?  To be eligible for my drawing for a package that includes the Stacking Pop-Up Pattern, the Medium 8" Spring and the Let's Go Fly a Kite pattern include a comment to this post.  I will be doing a couple of On Point Quilter pattern giveaways as well.  (I will be doing my drawing on Monday, February 21st.)

If you want to be eligible for the Grand Prize, hop on over to Fat Quarter Gypsy's site and sign up there.  One of the grand prizes includes a gift certificate toward one of my classes.  This can be combined with other coupons.  (Note -- E-mails left on that site will be shared with all blog hoppers.)

To be added to On Point Quilter's weekly newsletter, you must sign up with the link below.

What's Next

The next blog hopper is Trish Bowman from Happy Memories Quilts.  Trish's booth was across from mine at fall quilt market so I had a chance to enjoy her quilts for four full days.  I was impressed with her techniques and tools for creating beautiful T-shirt quilts.  Her blog post is here.
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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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