Showcasing Eq8 Designs & New AccuQuilt Go! Bob Collection

1/31/2026

I haven’t done a showcase of Tech Know Quilter designs in quite a while, and it’s long overdue. One of my favorite parts of teaching Electric Quilt 8 is seeing how students take a concept, tool, or challenge and truly make it their own.

In this post, I’m sharing a collection of student designs created during the “Apply What They Learned” monthly challenges from the latter part of 2025—followed by a look at a brand-new EQ8 add-on that opens up even more creative possibilities when paired with AccuQuilt dies.

I continue to be amazed by the creativity, skill, and confidence of the Tech Know Quilter community.

Tech Know Quilter Student Design Showcase

The designs below were submitted by Tech Know Quilter members as part of our monthly challenges. Each challenge encourages students to apply newly learned EQ8 skills—whether that’s working with custom blocks, layouts, color variations, or design tools—to create something uniquely their own.

Julie Pedersen This is my quilt that we designed for the TKQ Masters Scrapbook Challenge class. We chose a state/place for our theme. Each lesson we were given a category such as food, flora, fauna. We then chose the items for our quilt. We created a layout and filled it with blocks from each category. I chose Hawaii and filled it with Diamond Head, pineapples, hibiscus, banyan trees and more. I used a variety of techniques to create the blocks. It was a challenge to decide what to use and how to create the blocks. Thanks, Kari, for another great class.

Josie Sifft Here is a quilt I designed with ideas from the poly draw and medallion borders classes. I used it for a quilt challenge with our guild. The theme was courage, and it had to include black and silver fabric and at least one bow tie block.

Josie Sifft Here is the finished quilt.

Fran Heisey This is my quilt/block from Lesson 3 - TKQ Masters Scrapbook Challenge. My favorite place is my farm. My entire farm is marsh, restored prairie and woods, so when Kari asked us to create a block featuring food from our favorite place, I was stumped. We have no domestic crops. However, when I shifted my focus from cultivated to wild, the options were endless: cattail pancakes, black walnut cookies, black locust flower jelly, hot dandelion salad... Here are a bunch of elderberries and an elderberry pie, just in season. My Grandfather's favorite, if not mine. The birds now get all the elderberries

Julie Pedersen I took the Masters Double Dipping class this month. It was hard to choose one quilt from those that we worked on. Kari (and Mary) never disappoint. I always learn something new and hone the skills from previous classes.

Patricia Hansen I really enjoyed the Double Dipping Class this month. It is wonderful to see and choose from all the options that show up under Create Serendipity. I am posting one of the quilts from Lesson 5 and also one that I made up myself from some of the blocks that appeared

Patricia Hansen Here is the second one.

Lynne Maramieri I chose an asymmetrical block to work with and because I have a very orderly mind I found this month's topic a huge challenge but persevered and am very happy with the results. Here is the block.

Lynne Maramieri Here is the quilt

Fran Heisey This is from Masters - Double Dipping Class. It was a fun class we used Serendipity to modify a block multiple times. I found it particularly useful to inspire experimentation.

Loronda Schuler Fun with Double Dipping. Flip and Clip etc.

Terry McCaskey I enjoyed and learned something in every "Double Dipping" class this month: editing quilt layouts from the library, working more with Serendipity, simplifying blocks for actual piecing, etc. Here are my 4 favorites. . The last two pictured nly have one variation from Kari's class: I separated my curved lines by two inches rather than only one. That did make chubby/puffy curves but gave my eye/mind a place to rest and offset the complexities elsewhere in the designs. This must be my "traditional" brain trying to bring order into Double Dipping chaos fun.

Zdenka Nemethova This month I enjoyed Masters Double Dipping Class. Working with Serendipity tools is now a great challenge thanks to Kari and Mary. Cannot even decide which quilt to add here as I love them all.

Mary Groesbeck This is a really simply design using the DOUBLE DIPPING technique, but I wanted to highlight my new fall fabric (including some fat quarters). (Mary Groesbeck was the mastermind behind the Double Dipping class.)

Fran Heisey My class this month was Celtic Designs. I used Kari's method for drafting Celtic knots to make this quilt.

Julie Pedersen For the Masters Celtic Designs I class, I made this to show some of what we learned.

Zdenka Nemethová This month I enjoyed Masters Celtic Designs Class. Thanks to Kari I learned how to draw a celtic knot.

Terry McCaskey I enjoyed the lacy look of this Celtic quilt design outcome. There was a lot of challenge in all of the lessons this month.

Patricia Hansen I am working a month behind, so I just did Celtic Designs. I took one of the blocks and made it into a quilt with a photo in the center.

Julie Pedersen For the Masters Custom Set Magic class this month, I chose to do a variation on our lesson 7 quilt. I incorporated blocks from previous lessons in the class.

Trees Bijsterveld My challenge was to get the half blocks on the site right. It took my about 5 blocks before it looks good, but finally I succeeded. I also used fabrics that I normally wouldn't use. But that's why it's called a challenge, isn't it?

Henriette Koks-Oosterveer My favorite quilt of the month

Zdenka Nemethová I enjoyed all lessons in this month Masters Custom Set Magic class. On Point Designs are my favourite

Sheela Churchill I made two versions of this!

Julie Pedersen It was hard to chose which technique I wanted to share for the Off the Grid Masters class. I finally chose the starry night quilt that we designed.

Debbi Treusch I played with auto borders to inspire a long hexagon block for the body of the quilt. This auto border is like a Christmas tree farm!!

Julie Pedersen For this month's challenge, I used a technique from the Master's Designing for Panels class. I actually made a version of this quilt. Kari's lessons would have made it much easier to accomplish when I made it.

Julie Pedersen Here is the one I made

Fran Heisey This Class was so addictive, and so much fun. I envision the bow being a real ribbon bow with wire edges. Several years ago, I made a wreath quilt for my mother and used a wire ribbon bow on it. It added a nice 3D element.

Teresa Diewert I made this one after the PolyDraw class. It was great to be able to do one 14x14 square and then clone it for the full quilt

These projects are a wonderful reminder that there’s no single “right” way to use EQ8—just endless opportunities to explore, experiment, and grow.

AccuQuilt Go! BOB (Blocks on Board) 2025 Collection

Electric Quilt is releasing a new AccuQuilt Go! BOB (Blocks on Board) 2025 Collection this week as an add-on product for Electric Quilt 8. This add-on includes AccuQuilt Go! BOB blocks released by AccuQuilt during 2025 and makes it easy to design quilts that are fully compatible with AccuQuilt dies.

In the free video tutorial included in this post, I demonstrate one approach to creating new variations of a block from this collection—while still ensuring the designs work beautifully with the related AccuQuilt dies.

A Key Tip When Working with Go! BOB Blocks

When working with blocks in the Go! BOB collection, it’s essential to maintain the original block size. If you change the block size, you can still design and sew the quilt—but the pieces will no longer be compatible with the AccuQuilt dies.

Keeping the block size consistent ensures you can confidently cut all pieces using your dies.

Creating Variations with Shadowed Dizzy Geese

For this tutorial, I chose to work with the Shadowed Dizzy Geese 12" block from the collection. Shadowed Dizzy Geese is a copyrighted design by Sew Steady (2026), and all pieces for the 12" block can be cut using AccuQuilt die #55926.

Using EQ8, I created five different variations of this block, all of which can be cut using the same die set. This approach allows you to expand your design options without purchasing additional dies.

Shadowed Dizzy Geese Block in the Add-on Collection

Five Block Variations

In the video, I demonstrate how to use Shrink and Flip to create five unique variations of the Shadowed Dizzy Geese block. All of these designs can be easily cut using the 55926 Go! BOB Pinwheel Shape Set by AccuQuilt.

Variation 1

Variation 2

Variation 3

Variation 4

Variation 5

Quilt Layouts Using Variation Five

To take the design one step further, I also created quilt layouts using Variation Five of the block. Seeing a block in a full quilt layout often sparks new ideas and helps you visualize how the design might work in your own projects.

Go BOB Quilt 1

Go BOB Quilt 2

Watch the Free Video Tutorial

In the video tutorial below, you’ll see how to:

Use the AccuQuilt Go! BOB add-on in EQ8
Create block variations while maintaining die compatibility
Design quilts using the modified blocks

Check out the free video tutorial to see the entire process step by step.

Final Thoughts

The blocks in the AccuQuilt Go! BOB add-on are truly fun to work with, and one of the most rewarding aspects is creating variations that result in a quilt that feels personal and uniquely yours—all while staying compatible with AccuQuilt dies.

The AccuQuilt Go! BOB 2025 Collection Add-On can be purchased directly from Electric Quilt for $15.95.

Purchase the BOB Collection directly from Electric Quilt (coming February 2026)

Whether you’re inspired by the student showcases, the block variations, or the quilt layouts, I hope this post encourages you to explore new possibilities in Electric Quilt 8 and confidently make each design your own.

Happy quilting.

Kari

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