The challenge for today is make your own ornament.  In my video tutorial, I will share with you how to draw a quick ornament and how you can quickly swap out the center of the ornament.  I know you will love the technique.

My ornaments were inspired by a free project on Do You EQ entitled Delightful Decorations.

Are you just getting started with Electric Quilt 8 and need some help? 

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 $25 (regular $35).  Join now.

Do you remember having an advent calendar or maybe using one with your kids?  Each day you would open a door and receive a treat or a special activity for that day.

I have designed a quilted advent calendar for you following that same idea.  In this weeks free video tutorial, I will share with you how to design the tree and set it in a quilt.  This tree would be super simple to piece using the rotary cutting chart from Electric Quilt

Once you designed the tree -- it needs to be decorated.

So -- for the next 25 days, I have set up a special email series.  With this series, you will receive one Christmas themed activity per day.  These are the types of activities you will typically find in an advent activity calendar. 

Your challenge -- should you chose to accept it - is to design a block (or use a block from the EQ library) around the proposed Christmas activity.   

​Those that have enrolled in one of my paid classes this year will be automatically enrolled in this class (so there is no need to sign up again if you enrolled in either Shoot for the Stars with EQ8 or Tech Know Quilters).  All others will need to enroll.

Your Day 1 Challenge is to design a block supporting the Christmas activity "Attend a Christmas concert".

How I selected my block.  For this challenge I did a search for Music in the EQ block library and modified one of the blocks. 

These blocks will be set on Layer 2 (on top of the pieced quilt).

 Would you like to share your designs?  I would love to see them.  Feel free to post in the private Facebook group -- Learning Electric Quilt.  Click here to request membership. 

​Please post  your blocks under the Advent Challenge post to assist in keeping the list organized.

Are you just getting started with Electric Quilt 8 and need some help? 

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 $25 (regular $35).  Join now.

This post is a couple of days early.  

In the US the fourth Thursday in November is Thanksgiving.  During this national holiday we have a chance to reflect on things we are truly thankful for.

I am so appreciative of those that follow me on my blog and social media and those who take classes from me.  I enjoy sharing my love of quilting (especially Electric Quilt) with you and I feel blessed having you in my community.

My free video tutorial this week is entitled -- Give Thanks.  During the video I will be sharing how to obtain and work with fonts (and text) in EQ8.

Here is the quilt from the video.  The fonts were obtained from ​https://www.1001fonts.com/

The fonts used in the quilt were Rouge Script and KR Fabulous Fall.

During this free video tutorial.  I will share with you a quilt that was designed to feature Tommy Turkey.  This is a great project for any beginners to EQ8.  This would also be an easy project to piece.

Do you have any special plans for Thanksgiving?  I am planning a trip to North Dakota.  But will be back on Sunday -- so I can fly to Michigan to spend time with the West Michigan Quilt Guild next week.  I am hoping to meet some of you then.

During the Foundation Piecing class, I challenged participants to design their own foundation friendly tree.  Here are their very talented results.