Maple Leaf Custom Set Layout using Electric Quilt

Although this was a short week -- there is a lot happening in this bog post.  

• Goose, Goose, Duck - A new EQ8 challenge will be starting shortly
• Maple Leaf Fun EQ8 Tutorial on using Custom Set Layouts
• Tech Know Quilters August 2019 Showcase

Goose Goose Duck Challenge

Mark your calendars for September 10th.

This is the starting date for a new two week challenge.  During this free challenge I will be presenting both drafting (using EQ8) and piecing instructions for six blocks. 

And at the end of the challenge, you will be invited to join a webinar where I will share a number of setting options for your blocks.

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Using Custom Set in EQ8

Custom Set in Electric Quilt 8 can sometimes seem scary to use.  Custom Set is the layout that gives you a blank canvas and you  can put your blocks where ever you want on that canvas. 

Learn my tricks for creating a small quilt layout with two sizes of blocks.  It is  very doable.  The layout is perfect for populating with any three and six inch blocks. 

​In the video I include drafting the bow tie and maple leaf blocks and then  including them in the custom set layout.

Here are the quilts from the video.  

Maple Leaf Fun by Kari Schell

Bow Tie Fun by Kari Schell

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Tech Know Quilters July Apply What You Learned Challenge

At the end of each month, Tech Know Quilter members are encouraged to share a block or quilt and provide insights on what they learned.  Here are their inspiring results.

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Linda Carlson I'm making a T-Shirt Quilt for my granddaughter, Emma, to take to college. I changed the dimensions to fit an XL twin bed. The print fabrics will more than likely change, substituting colors for the school she chooses.

Linda Carlson I have some Paula Nadelstern panels and coordinating fabrics that I used for the panel lessons, and this is the result.

Carole Fox The Mix and match Medallion Borders class was all about measurements and calculations. I enjoyed that and the modern twist of one of the medallion.I tried to make my own using one of the blocks we produced with serendipity. One version with white background, one with black background.

Sandy Roberts I decided to make this a quilt size. (Inspired by a quilt in Modern Quilts.)

Curryanne Hostetler PolyDraw was a struggle but I learned. This design I saw on Pintrist but I took the idea and put it in EQ with poly draw. I have to say to get the little piece took for ever to figure out the size. I thought it would make a great table topper

Wanda Jewell I am taking Hexagon Blocks and Settings this month. This is my Challenge quilt for the month. I learned quite a bit. How to get the alignment tools on the screen was great. Making the distorted hexagon that looked like dragon scales? , It was cool learning how to make some block motifs for the scales and the jewels. I used my create serendipity and some of the blocks we used as well as motifs and threads to make this quilt.

Holly Wilson I am taking the Modern Quilts 2 and in the Masters. The thing that I learned that has helped me a lot was to use the arrows on the keyboard to help move a block into place. I wondered what would happen if I moved the tile block on point. It took time and several tries, it worked best when I centered the first block and then worked from there.

Janet Inglis Thank you Kari for a wonderful class. I've learnt so much I think some of what I've learned has leaked out. I definitely need to go over it again. I recolored the quilt we worked on..

Julie Pedersen I am doing the Masters Class and Modern Quilts 2 this month. I revisited the Medallion Borders lessons and created this one using various blocks from the lessons I have done.

Julie Pedersen I used the section tool to capture the center of the quilt so you could see it better.

Julie Pedersen ... and here is the upper left quadrant.

Carolyn Block Loved this lesson! I am doing Masters Modern Quilts 2 Lesson 12 Brickworks...fun!!

Joy Hegglund From Modern Quilts 2

Suzanne Golden This was a fun class. never thought I would be interested in making a Bargello. For this quilt I used merge and serendipity with the curved log cabin.

JoAnne Scharn I used a lesson from the TKQ Modern Quilts 2 transparency class to create a quilt using what is probably my favorite block, the Ohio Star, with some of the many possible variations that can be drawn using that block as a basis. I believe I could actually stitch this quilt.

Dorothee Ilgner I was in the Modern Quilt 2 class, where we learned to draft a Bauhaus inspired Quilt. I had a great aunt, who actually studied at the Bauhaus in the years 1921 - 1923. She is a role model for me for lifelong learning and determination. She was born 1870 to a german-baltic family in Riga, Latvia. She studied art and painting in Riga. Around 1900 she went to Italy and Germany and became a master student with Adolf Hoelzel and taught classes. Because Riga was in Russia at this time, she was not allowed to teach during WW1. So she taught privately those, who were not allowed to study officially. Josef Itten was one of her pupils. When she went to Bauhaus, she was over 50 years old. Itten was her teacher there. She also learned carpet weaving. That helped her to make a living when her paintings were forbidden in the years after 1932. To honor her I designed a quilt after one of her carpets. Do you see the patches that are similar to quilt blocks? I think if she had known quilts she would have loved to make them.

Kathy Delaney Wow! My mind is blown! I took the Masters Modern Quilts 2 class. I was fascinated by the Fibonacci Quilt so I played with that some. I wondered what it would look like to take the original block, resize it and put it in one element of the block, resize it again and place it in the same element of the second block. I placed the resized blocks on the second layer. I kept the same coloring so it would seem to be in a "hall of mirrors." While I am not much of a "modern quilter," this is one I might consider making.

Sharon Osborne A Modern quilt I designed for July. I'd like to make this one! Loved learning all these layouts.

Kristy Goodin Soard My challenge quilt for TKQ Modern Quilts 2. I was inspired by a quilt I saw on a blog, Stitch by Stitch Custom Quilting. The blogger teaches longarm quilting classes, and had quilted my inspiration quilt beautifully. In my quilt I was sure to leave plenty of open space for some luscious quilted feathers. I also implemented Kari's "highlighting a single block" process, however, I did not create this in custom set.

Rick Danner Eleanor Gets an Update This lesson was the bomb! I had so much fun with the Eleanor's applique block I went ahead with all 12 blocks then set them in a really fun quilt setting.

Joyce Drenth EQ8 Version

Joyce Drenth Pieced and Quilted

Joyce Drenth

​I have been working on a Northwest Suburban Quilters Guild (NSQG) challenge quilt as a component of our upcoming Time Flies Quilt Show. Challenge requirements include: use 4 ruby (40th anniversary gem) flying geese blocks to celebrate four decades, add embellishments, meet AQS Ultimate Guild Challenge competition size requirements, and showcase a personal reflection of how 'Time Flies".
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My design uses 40 wedges. After incorporating the four ruby blocks, each of the remaining 36 geese blocks chronologically document the quilt style and completion date of a selection of my quilts. I photographed my quilts and resized the pictures to fit into the 40 wedges. This quilt serves as a documentation of my quilting journey through time so that pictures of my quilts are captured in one place. It also keeps my 'goals' front and center for the future.

I drew the shoe, bucket and scissors after taking Kari’s applique class. I then proceeded to sew a 3-D bucket, wool pincushion, beaded strawberry, high-heeled shoe, scissor hands applique'd over Peltex, yo-yos for the 4 quadrants of the clock face, clock and hourglass charms, beads and a bucket list of yet-to-be-completed quilt styles flowing out of the bucket. Forty ruby prairie points celebrate NSQG's 40th anniversary year. The 4 o'clock charms and the scissor hands reflect the 4 decades of our guild's existence. 
Challenge quilts were displayed and voted upon last night at our guild meeting. I’m happy to report that I won first place.

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Other EQ Designs and Quilts by TKQ Members

Nancy Messuri

Peggy Carstens

Barbara O'Brien

Holly Wilson Feathered Star

Joyce Drenth Feathered Star

Jackie Tucker Lone Star

Wanda Hizer

Shann Wheaton

Mary Landon

Sharon Osborne

Joy Hegglund

Jennifer Leean

Suzanne Golden

Holly Wilson

Curryanne Hostetler

Rick Danner

Renee Stacy

Janet Inglis

Jan Beckert

Debbie Wheadon

Nancy Messuri

Kathy Autry

Suzanne Golden

Julie Pedersen

Sandra Roybal

Holly Wilson

Julie Pedersen

Kristy Goodin Soard

JoAnne Scharn

Carolyn McCready

Kathy Delaney

Reed Johnson

Reed Johnson

Jan Beckert

Kathy Autry

Kathleen Scargle McCormick

Sharon Osborne

Micheline Herzan‎

Kathleen Scargle McCormick

Jackie Tucker

Karen Kuranda EQ Design

Karen Kuranda Block

Karen Kuranda Quilt

Wanda Jewell

Bev Crouse

Leanne Neilson

Pat Harkin

Lynne Hoefer EQ inspired by Moda Blockhead II

Lynne Hoefer Quilt

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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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