Memorial Day Flags EQ8 Tutorial

The quilt I am sharing today was inspired by a design I saw on the Quilt Index.

Mitchell, Eugeni. Flag Quilt. 1979. From Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum Collection. Published in The Quilt Index, https://quiltindex.org/view/?type=fullrec&kid=24-20-198. Accessed: 05/24/24

The quilt was made by Eugenia Mitchell of Golden CO and donated to the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum.  

It was one of the original 101 quilts donated by Eugenia Mitchell to start the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. 

​Eugenia hated to see anything go to waste. In 1943, her son salvaged the large flag from a July 4th bandstand bunting, and Eugenia retrieved the small flags from veterans' graves after Memorial Day 1979 (with permission).

Although I didn't make an exact replica of the quilt in EQ, I did follow the layout concept from Eugenia's quilt. 

Flag Dimensions for EQ Design

In figuring out the sizing for my flag block, I found a flag calculator.  The internet is truly a wealth of information. 

This was at ​https://www.omnicalculator.com/other/flag

I chose to make some minor adjustments in the sizes to make the quilt block easier to rotary cut and piece. 

​My adjusted numbers are shown in red.

Omni Flag Calculator

In the video tutorial, I will take you through drafting both my American Flag block along with the quilt.  

One of the pluses of the quilt design is that it could easily be adapted with flags of a different country.  Or maybe a collection of flags.

Here is my final block.

American Flag Block Created in EQ8 by Kari Schell

Here is my final quilt. 

​I did my best to stay with the same width to height ratio for the blocks in the borders -- but ended up taking some liberties by adjusting the proportions in some of the border blocks (just a bit).

Memorial Day Flags Quilt designed with EQ8 by Kari Schell

I would love to see what you do with my flag block.  Or a different flag block.  Feel free to post in the Learning EQ Facebook Group.  I've set up a dedicated post.

Learning EQ Facebook Group Post on Memorial Day Flags

Tech Know Quilters April 2024 Month End Challenge

Prepare to embark on a journey of awe-inspiring creativity as we unveil our latest showcase, featuring an array of remarkable student projects from the Tech Know Quilter community.

Among the reactions, one common sentiment prevails: "I never imagined Electric Quilt 8 could achieve such feats!"

I know you will be impressed as we unveil the astonishing capabilities of Electric Quilt 8, showcased through the diverse and imaginative projects crafted by our talented members.

Sandy Dingman Wells Normally not a big fan of modern quilts - but I enjoyed making this quilt. I call it Pac-Man Maze. It reminded me of the old Atari game Pac Man with its 90 degree turns. Part of what makes this pattern trigger the imagination is the fabric selection.

Sandy Dingman Wells I have an affinity for compass and star blocks. This is the quilt I created that incorporates both a compass star block and a 3D effect.

Kristy Goodin Soard I very much enjoyed designing this quilt for the April 2024 Masters Challenge.

Terry McCaskey I have come to the end of my TKQ beginning classes with the Embellishment class before staring the Masters series in May. (a little scary Kari). As always Kari has shared many tips...most of which I never imagined were possible. However, drafting quilts in EQ is a passion and this month I updated my "freeway" sign quilt for our upcoming show! #wouldyoudraftaroadsignineq8?□ It will be on Interstate 80/90 at the end May!

Alice Hertel Borders, borders, and yet more borders. Start with a centre medallion and then just go nuts!! Love this. We have straight borders, flying geese, diamonds, piano keys, and then the crowning glory, sway with flower corners. Finally ended with even more straight borders.

Fran Heisey Master class Special Effects Layouts sounded like it might be a snore - it was anything but. Lots of new things to learn.

Lee Wiencki Special effects quilts lesson 4 with unexpected colours

Denise Mohler Well April was another month packed full for me... still playing catch up Hexagon Magic Lesson 5 is the 1st one.

Denise Mohler Four Patch Quilts Lesson 6

Denise Mohler Log Cabin Building Lesson 1

Denise Mohler Circles By Design Lesson 4

Denise Mohler Star Layouts Lesson 1

Denise Mohler Hexies and More Lesson 5

Denise Mohler Surprising Corners Lesson 6

Denise Mohler Sampler Quilt Layout Designs Lesson 6

Denise Mohler Pentagons and Decagons Lesson 3

Connie Bradley Bobcik I participated in the EQ8 April Challenge using the April 2024 Fabric of the Month, Sea Breeze by Northcott. I used many skills I've learned along the way in TKQ lessons. I did get an honorable mention with my quilt.

Connie Bradley Bobcik Working in TKQ Adding Quilt Designs, Month 21, it was fun to design quilting designs for our quilts. I do a lot of ruler work for my quilting and didn't know how to get quilting designs to interview on my quilt before actually stitching. I was so excited to learn how to use create designs that I could accomplish that with. Thank you Kari, this was so helpful to me.

Connie Bradley Bobcik Lesson 1, of what I have finished so far, was one of my favorite lessons in TKQ Masters Special Effects Library Quilts. Learning how to create unique blocks and then add them to a specific quilt setting was so intriguing. I could sit for way too long just playing.

Fran Heisey For sometime, I have wanted to set blocks in the clipping triangles in layouts from the EQ Layout Library that would have the edge of the block along the hypotenuse of the triangle rather than along one of the shorter edges. Kari showed us a technique in Special Effects Quilts that finally allowed me to do that. Here is an example.

Edith Craig My class for April was Master's Special Effects. This quilt was using and positioning shapes of various sizes. The class used circles, but I modified mine to use jewels. It was interesting to make the changes in the sizing to get the look that I wanted and fun to play with the positions. This was one of many of the quilts in this class that was fun to draft and put my own spin on.

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​Kari

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