Grandmothers Flower Garden - Tricks for Working with One Patch Quilts

Have you explored the one patch quilt option in Electric Quilt? 

It is an incredibly fast way to design your own flower garden quilt for English Paper Piecing. 

In the tutorial you will learn about a couple of the lesser used coloring tools that can improve your coloring speed on a one patch quilt.

I will also share my trick for creating a sheet of English Paper Piecing templates.

There is no "drafted block" in the quilt -- just the colored quilt. 

​If you would like to use the fabrics, I used in the video, they are available for download on the EQ website.  The collection is By Hand created by Amy Friend for Benartex.

Grandmothers Flower Garden One Block Quilt

Pro Tip
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To figure out the number of hexagons needed by color, print out a yardage chart.

EQ will tell you how many times each fabric is used in the quilt. 

​Since this is a one patch quilt, it is also the number of hexagons you will need.

I would love to see your one patch quilt.  Feel free to share in the Learning EQ Facebook group.  I've set up a post for pictures of your quilt.

Learning EQ Facebook Post for Grandmothers Flower Garden

Favorite Tech Know Quilter Projects

Here are some recently completed projects from Tech Know Quilter members. 

There are some pieced bocks and quilts (in addition to designed ones.  Proof that occasionally we do get some actual quilting completed.  :)

Tech Know Quilters is a membership of Electric Quilt 8 owners who are mastering Electric Quilt through online training.  At the end of each month, they were encouraged to apply what they learned and to share a favorite quilt or picture.

If you are interested in joining Tech Know Quilters, please send me a note.

Wanda Hizer A quilt using a panel and the technique from Masters Quilty Gifts.

Marcia Jensen I'm posting a quilt I designed and made using what I learned about a custom set quilt design. Gotta love those custom sets! This was a "journey quilt," with each block on the path representing some new learning over the years that I have been quilting. The last block in the quilt represents "what's next?" in my quilt journey!

Julie Pedersen Here is my table topper that created for the Masters Quilty Gifts class.

Julie Payne Smith I have been working on Pat Sloan's "Be My Neighbor" Quilt that my guild did in 2023 - That's just one thing I'm behind in. I wanted to replace the sailboat with a train, which is more appropriate for MY neighborhood. This is my block designed in EQ to fit the space that I had...

Julie Payne Smith I tried out Kari's video tutorial on "Dear Jane in Jack's Chain Layout"

Edith Craig My class for December was Quilty Gifts. This class had many good ideas for small quilts for decorating or gifts. This one is an adaptation from the Christmas tree quilt. I added small snowflakes to the trees. This could be used as a tree skirt or as a table topper.

Rachel Chandler My finished Summer Games Challenge quilt. It has been slow going, but I am pleased with the final result. I gifted the quilt top to my sister at Christmas with the promise to complete. She will receive the completed quilt tomorrow.

Rachel Chandler This was a fun class and I learned so much. In the Bargello 1 portion, I played with the design and colors and just love how this final layout/coloring turned out. It was actually a happy accident. I may actually make this one. Thank you Kari for the excellent instruction.

Julie Pedersen This month I took the Masters Joyce Drenth quilts class. We created quilts inspired by Joyce's creations. For the challenge I used the Bucket List quilt and put a twist to it. I added one of my su-purr-visors to it as they have to check out my creations.

Mary Groesbeck designed a Mystery Quilt-Along for Cat Lovers. She obviously couldn't share the quilt with us -- but here is the advertisement for the class. https://www.facebook.com/groups/978576190794851

Jill Tillman Garrett Learning how to import and scale fabrics helped me out a lot with this simple quilt. I'm working on a Cocomelon themed quilt for a friend's grand daughter so it's pretty colorful!

Josie Sifft I took the EQ8 Made Easy class and it was a great way to get me to start playing in EQ8 again. This started off with drafting an Arkansas traveler block, and ended up with color play and lots of modification. Ended up with an optical illusion in the center.

Terry McCaskey I really had fun with the word generator challenge. "Slide, Fire and Angel" were the inspiration for my "Fallen Angels" quilt design. It also helped me remember and use some of the transparency lessons from past classes. Thanks Kari.

Edith Craig This month I took the Masters' class Joyce Drenth quilts. The quilt I liked best in this series was one with numerous bird houses. I decided to make my bird house quilt as a table topper, a 36" circle, decorated with pieced bird houses and appliqued birds and lettering. Great fun to play as I improve my skills.

You can learn more about Tech Know Quilters here.

Happy quilting.

​Kari

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