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Spring Fever Finish Plus TKQ Highlights

3/27/2021

 
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Are you ready to master Electric Quilt 8?  Tech Know Quilters only opens enrollment a few times a year.  Since we finished an awesome challenge, I decided to open enrollment through next Monday.  But I have to shut it off  on March 29, as we need to get everyone loaded in our system so you can start your journey to mastery next Friday.

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Spring Fever Reveal

Drumroll please -- here my pieced and quilted project from the Spring Fever challenge.  I have had a blast sharing the Electric Quilt tutorials with you over the past two weeks and have been so encouraged seeing your blocks and quilt designs.
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Spring Fever Designed, Pieced and Framed by Kari Schell
If you missed the webinar on the mystery layout for the Spring Fever quilt you can catch the replay here.  In addition to sharing how to draft the custom set layout in Electric Quilt, you will learn about the Tech Know Quilters membership program and the opportunity to join an amazing group of quilters in mastering their quilt design skills.

I also covered a couple of additional variations for this quilt and shared stories and pictures of quilts from current Tech Know Quilter members.
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Spring Fever Option 1 Designed in EQ8
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Spring Fever with Borders and a Larger Bee Block
1637 Electric Quilt users joined the Spring Fever two week mystery/challenge.  I suspect that for a number of you this was your first online quilt class.  I hope it won't be your last.  

This week there have been many of you posting your designs on Facebook.  Let me include a few of them here.
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Maureen Feron Pinwill posted this for her TKQ Masters project in March.
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Cherie Drury posted this design before the reveal. Definitely the closest person to figuring out the final layout. "I haven't sewn any yet so I have to work on it. I'm learning a lot about EQ and want to learn more. Thanks Kari."
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Carolyn McCready Here is my first attempt at a layout before I saw any of the wonderful other ideas. This was fun.
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Louise Billett Finally got the last one done! Yay! Thank you Kari for these wonderful classes that you shared with us. I sure did learned a lot! I’m greatful for the opportunity! I did add a funky bunny and Easter egg. Happy Easter to You!
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Elizabeth Barnett
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Moira Hewitt My quilt, I will be selecting fabrics, making the blocks, if it looks as busy I will make it larger with some calming spacer blocks Hope to see everyone in TKQ
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Mary Groesbeck This is my "other" Spring Fever layout. I am making the original as designed at the sized designed. This one uses blocks at twice the size and in a "just starting to look like spring" theme. I am close to finishing the piecing for the blocks in both quilts.
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Mary Groesbeck And now I need to make some more umbrellas. This one will be 59"x56".
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Kathryn Taylor I spent way too much time on this, but had so much fun playing with it. Finishes at 20.5" x 17"
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Maureen Pinwill My Spring Mystery. Had a lot of fun. Thank you!
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Fiona Bateman This is my layout. I have made a start on the blocks. 2 down 10 to go. Xx
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Katherine Martin Bees resized
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Brigitte Lee My Spring panel, that was fun.
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Margo Reppert
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Charlotte Smith Nice to have a refresher. Thanks Kari.
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Carol Kendra Enjoyed the reveal last night! Thank you for a fun experience.
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Dotty Smalley I made this wall hanging for a specific wall space and added the Easter Egg from a Saturday block by Kari.
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Brenda Parker Alburl Here is my Spring Mystery Quilt. I did use some spacer blocks and resized some blocks to make it all fit like I wanted. I also added the bonus bluebird block!! Thanks again, Kari! This has been an awesome challenge!!
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Gina Donnelly-Park I did it!!
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Helen Hicks Thank You Kari Schell for this wonderful Mystery tour it was amazing and here is my rendition I went with 6x6 umbrella ☔️ and that setup my piece settings I enlarged the other blocks to adjust and spacers. This was a great learning curve and I added some embroidery to my mix.
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Stephanie Pugsley VandeWetering Thank you, Kari, for a fun learning experience. Happy spring!
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Curryanne Hostetler
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Monquey Shines Kari, thanks so much for the thousands of hours you put into the blog, lessons, videos, and EQ in general. I've learned so much! In my version of "Spring", I was taken with your little kite tail, and wanted to lengthen it a little bit. Another member modified the primrose block, which I adopted, as well.
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Elody Jehannin Top finished. Go to quilting now. Thanks to Kari Schell for this challenge !
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Tech Know Quilters February Showcase

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

Tech Know Quilters is open to new members only a few times a year.  You can sign up through Monday (March 29, 2021) during a flash sale.  Read more here.   

​I love having people at different stages of the EQ journey submitting designs.  I am so proud of this group of quilt designers.
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Julie Pedersen For the Exploring Layer 3 Masters Class challenge, I chose to take an embroidery design that I made when I had an embroidery business and implement it in a quilt using Layer 3. Before this class, I hadn't known that my embroidery program could export a file that I could use in EQ8 when I am planning quilts. I also learned how to create my own quilting designs to play with possibilities. Thanks, Kari Schell for sharing with us how much EQ8 can actually do!
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Sandra Roybal "My Environment" for a local quilt guild challenge. House and sewing machine blocks already in EQ8 were perfect for describing my environment. Quilting with monofilament thread and binding attached with Knit/Woven Double Fold Bias Binder on my Triumph serger - lots of firsts. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
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Dotty Smalley I was inspired by Nancy Halvorsen's Imagine quilt to design my own sampler. I call it Celebrate 12 Months. I used my 6D embroidery program to make the words then imported them into EQ8 as we learned in the Exploring Layer 3 class. After this class I am much more comfortable using the 3 layers to design a quilt.□
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Edith Craig During February I worked with Kaleidoscopes, drafting blocks and then manipulating them into kaleidoscope variations. The 2 quilts shown were made with a couple of these variations in pattern and color.
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Edith Craig Here is the second example.
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Lynne Maramieri I created the following two quilts after completing the EasyDraw Kaleidoscopes lessons. I am thoroughly enjoying the lessons and learning a lot!
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Lynne Maramieri
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JoAnne Scharn I needed to make another Quilt of Valor and saw a photo of a quilt that I thought would work using a panel I already had. I didn't know the dimensions used in the photo, and designed this quilt several times using EQ8, first with 15" blocks and then using 12" blocks that seemed to look better with the panel. My class this month was From Design to Production and, while I know the dimensions, I will be checking the rotary cutting charts.
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Moira Hewitt I took the Bargello class and loved the modern block lesson, inspired by the lesson I designed my own block and quilt
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Dorothee Ilgner  In February I explored Layer 3. I just got a charm pack of Modas 'bee grateful' and made a small quilt with them. I decided to rework the quilt in EQ8 and to figure out a quilting pattern. I choose a spiraling hexagon for the center, and drew it in poly draw. Finally I added my logo as we learned this month.
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Judy Oldenkamp Sawyer My quilt design using the new Block Base+ (I was a beta tester for BB+). This Block Base + is great. It can be used as a stand alone or with EQ8. All of Brackman's quilt designs are in this version and her book compliments the software.
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Kristy Goodin Soard I took Exploring Layer 3 Masters Class and created this wool rug with quilting added, which would be a big stitch considering it would be on wool.
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Linda Carlson #exploadingheartQAL with Slice of PI Quilts. It’s ready for my quilter, Cindy Baker, when I get the pieced backing done. This QAL was six weeks, and I finished the top in 6 weeks and a day. I could not have kept up without my new Accuquilt Go! cutter to get all the squares and triangles cut when I was still in a hand splint after surgery 6 weeks before it started on January 4th. Laura had clear instructions and good accompanying videos.
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Karen Eddie Neal Finished my husbands t-shirt quilt designed in EQ after the panel class. Ended up changing a few things.
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Sandra Roybal Accomplished my goal of custom quilting, rather than an edge-to-edge.
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Joy Hegglund I designed this in the Panel Class, many moons ago. It is now finished
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Joy Hegglund Close Up of Quilting
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Joyce Drenth
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Close Up of Quilting
My goal this month was to finally finish the quilting of the scrap clamshell quilt that was begun during COVID pandemic times. I purchased the shoebox full of donated hand-cut fabric clamshells at our 2019 Time Flies quilt show sale. I can finally say it is done except for the label being sewn on. The hospital handed out Pfizer '1st dose' 1/4 sheet papers and I hope they pass out a '2nd dose' colorful paper again. I want to transfer photos of these onto fabric to include on the back to denote this as a COVID-19 quilt. I added snippets of color into the binding. As each 1/4" strip folds to the back, a mini-clamshell resides as a little surprise. 

TKQ Masters Focus on the Quilting in this Challenge

Tech Know Quilter members who have completed twelve months of Tech Know Quilter's class are eligible for the Masters program.  They are given an opportunity to participate in a Masters challenge each month.

In February their challenge was to design a quilt that features the quilting in the quilt.  The quilt could be a whole-cloth or maybe just a quilt with a lot of negative space.
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Pat Harkins I designed this Amish inspired quilt and bought the fabric quite a while back . I tried for a traditional feel to the stitching here. I modified stencils from stencil files in my Quilt Design library.
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Julie Pedersen EQ Design
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Julie Pedersen completed quilt
Julie Pedersen  This is a quilt that I am making for a baby whose dad just got his pilot's license and his mom loves hot air balloons. I added the quilting that I drew on the applique motif block table. It is freehand for the most part, except for the plane which I traced from a photo of the plane. 
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Pat Harkins Another play quilt. I used the technique from the help session to finish the block designs in the border. Then created the stencils from blocks. I really like being able to go from easydraw to pieced & applique to applique motif. I wish it was one step.
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Pat Harkins Finished hand quilting totally EQ designed even the stencils.
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Kathleen Scargle McCormick I am working on a Round Robin, so this would be fun to work on some quilting patterns with it. I also took a design course for my longarm so I might try to make my own...from what I do in TKQ...serendipity. The picture is the Round Robin as it is now. The center block was one I designed EQ8 for a Sew Along and designed the Plus block round on point in EQ8 too.
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Kathleen Scargle McCormick And here it is with some quilting. I made the Mariner's star to fill the corners and the X block. I kept with some simple quilting motifs for the rest of the quilt (all from EQ8). There are 2 rounds in the Round Robin left, log cabin and ? until next week. However, I may stop here, or may go on but having the quilting plan at this point is a nice idea!
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Dotty Smalley started by designingthe center for her flamingo quilt.
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Dotty Smalley finished her quilt and included a couple of quilting designs.
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Maureen Feron Pinwill decided to focus on hearts.
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Karen Humphrey  I wanted to make a quilt for a nephew and I had some dinosaur fabrics. So I designed a quick attic window quilt. Loved how it turned out but was pondering how to quilt it when I decided to try my hand at making my own design in EQ. I made a repeat pattern using the dinosaur and dino foot print and free handed to connect all the designs. Turned out very nice. First picture is how it looked in EQ8 and the second is the finished quilt
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Karen Humphrey I drafted a baby quilt in EQ 8 downloading and scanning the same fabrics I had in my stash.
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Karen Humphrey quilt on longarm
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Karen Humphrey finished the quilting for her challenge quilt.
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Kristy Goodin Soard For my Masters Exploring Layer 3 Challenge quilt I decided to revisit my bee. Add to that some grids and flowers and my whole cloth quilt buzzed into existence.
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Curryanne Hostetler
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Joyce Drenth I added quilting to one of my future 24" x 24" game quilts I designed for a wall collection. They await my construction.
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Dorothee Ilgner I designed a tradional applique quilt with ample room for quilting. The applique block was from an add on block collection and I used another one as a template for the quilting designs.
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Holly Wilson Designing quilting for 4 inch outer border
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Barbara O'Brien I am working on this using yellow stars as quilting designs. Rest of the quilting is in a light color as I want it to be very much in the background and behind the appliqué . I will quilt entire quilt first and then appliqué the star and flying geese after.
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Maureen Feron Pinwill
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Marijke Nieuwenhuijsen
3/27/2021 09:13:23 am

a lot of great quilts I see, wonderfull challenge for you all this month. Very nice to see all the results, learning a lot this month


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