Monkeying Around with Critter Motifs

4/25/2020

Critter Motifs Update

Excerpt of Critter Motifs drawn in EQ8 by Kari Schell

Since our Stay at Home order, I have been doing regular live drawing events. It has provided me an opportunity to interact with people on a regular basis during this isolation period and improve my basic drawing skills.

I current have over 30 motifs and will be bring this exercise to a close at the end of the month.

If you would like to join a live session or watch any or all of the old videos, make sure to follow my Facebook page. I will typically post an announcement 30 minutes to an hour before going live. The live events are done on Zoom. The good news with Zoom is that participants can un-mute and ask questions or provide feedback.

Note: The videos are un-edited -- so they are longer than tutorials on my blog or in my classes.

Drafting a Monkey Motif Using EQ8

For today's video, I will share an edited version of drafting a cartoon monkey. My inspiration was from
EasyDrawingGuides.com.

How to Draw a Monkey from EasyDrawingGuides.com

Here is Curious George from the video.

Curious George Drafted in EQ8 by Kari Schell

Apply What You Learned Challenge

Tech Know Quilters is a membership of Electric Quilt 8 owners who are mastering Electric Quilt through online training. At the end of their March class, they were encouraged to apply what they learned during the month of March.

Tech Know Quilters is open to new members only a few times a year. You can sign up for the wait list here and we will notify you of the next open enrollment period..

Marlu Allan

Nancy Messuri I learned how to put a grid inside applique pieces so I could play with color in the design.Scrappy Happy Flower.

Julie Pedersen Here is my challenge quilt. I took the From Design to Production class. I used a medallion in an on point setting by choosing On Point Layout and setting it to 1 block each. I took one of the blocks we used and did a symmetry block-merge for the center. and then added borders. I LOVE creating this way. My favorite part of this month was seeing how Kari used templates from EQ8 to rotary cut odd shaped blocks!

Kristy Goodin Soard I applied what I learned in Kari’s Design to Production class. I had been creating blocks for quite some time between other projects. Recently I designed the quilt layout for my blocks and much to my delight completed the piecing of the whole top. I have one extra block I intend to use on the back. I added a few special touches of hand embroidery, rick rack, and a very special doily. I have named her Remember Me Always-Pastel Sampler Quilt, and she is the third in my Remember Me series. I’m excited to see what magic my quilter will create with this quilt.

Jean Halvorson From Design to Production Quilt - I did this in batiks and it just might get made if I can find the time. I definitely learned some great tips that I never would have thought about. Since I like to foundation piece, I really appreciated your video on how to measure pieces. I waste a lot of fabric when I foundation piece because I cut chunks of fabric. Thanks for all your great tips.

Carole Fox I live in South Africa and when the authorities announced that we will be confined for 21 days I had an idea. I search the internet, find a picture, made the pattern and via What’sApp asked the Ladies of our Guild if they wanted each to make the “21 days Block” and that we will put them together next time we will have a meeting and even appliqué some meaningful words on top of it. It will be a reminder of these difficult times. The response was overwhelming, everyone wants to make the block. After one week of lock down we have 8 blocks that the ladies posted on the group. I thought that it will be nice if they could visualize the quilt. That is where I applied what I learned in the T-shirt class. I saved the photos sent by the ladies, imported each one of them in the image worktable of EQ8, cropped and resized to the exact block measurement, save as fabric, switch to quilt worktable and paint an empty block with the fabric. Et Voilà!

Tina Rohde Used PolyDraw to create an improvisational block and then had fun using serendipity. Fabrics are April download from EQ.

Tina Rohde An improv block.

Other Projects

Here are some additional projects created by Tech Know Quilter members -- they are a very talented group who are doing amazing things with Electric Quilt 8.

Ann Van Fleet

Barbara O'Brien

Camille Lechliter

Carole Fox

Carol Mallozzi

Collien Kaseberg

Curryanne Hostetler

Helen Hicks

Helen Hicks - Critter Motif

Karen Eddie Neal

Karen Humphrey

Lisa Ward Serendipity Block

Lisa Ward Serendipity Quilt

Marlu Allan

Maryanne Curwood

Tan Lay Ngoh

Maureen Pinwill

Nancy Messuri

Pat Oliver

Sabine Neuberger Modern Bargello Block

Tina Rohde

Tech Know Quilter Pieced Projects

Joy Hegglund In Process T Shirt Quilt

Joy Hegglund Pfabulous Pflowers courtesy of Claudia Pfeil

Suzanne Kehm Golden - Annes Garden

Joy Hegglund Claudia Pfeil Quilt

Joy Hegglund Elizabeth Hartman pattern (redrawn in EQ)

Julie Pedersen Bonnie Hunter Unity Quilt

Julie Pedersen Carpenters Star

Julie Pedersen Carpenters Star Back

Kristy Goodin Soard - Kathi Cambells Little White Pumkin pattern

Rick Danner - Original block inspired by Goose Goose Duck Challenge

Nancy Dugger Weeks - EQ Preliminary Design

Nancy Dugger Weeks T Shirt Quilt

Pat Harkin EQ Design

Pat Harkin - Quilt in Progress

Happy quilting.

Kari

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