Star 60 Miniature Quilt Design

7/25/2020

Scroll down for a virtual quilt show by Tech Know Quilter members. There are many wonderful new blocks and quilts designed using EQ8. Included is a special exhibit of circular quilts by Tech Know Quilter Masters members.

Star 60 Miniature Quilt Design

In May, Deb Tucker's Studio 180 Design created a new tool for applying Deb's oversized piecing/trim down techniques to hexagon designs.

I did a blog post on designing a Star 60 friendly quilt using Electric Quilt 8.

Since then, I have received my ruler and realized you could use this tool for miniature hexagons. So I decided to go back to the drawing board and create a miniature hexagon quilt that was Star 60 friendly.

The quilt was designed using a one patch layout. It also uses a template designed in the video on May 23rd.

Here is the link to the free Equilateral Triangle calculator used in the video.

Star 60 Friendly Miniature Quilt designed by Kari Schell using EQ8

Next week I am hoping to share my construction techniques for this quilt. It will be your chance to see how I use the Star 60 tool to both cut pieces and trim down sections.

Tech Know Quilter Design Showcase

I love sharing a few of the awesome quilts designed by Tech Know Quilter members. Tech Know Quilters is a paid membership program for those serious about mastery of Electric Quilt 8. You can learn more here and sign up for the wait list for the next open enrollment period.

Apply What You Learned Challenge Quilts

At the end of their June classes, Tech Know Quilter members were encouraged to apply what they learning during June. Those in the Modern Quilts class were encouraged to design a Gees Bend inspired quilt and those in Masters were encouraged to design their own Custom Set quilt in Electric Quilt.

Rosemarie Hanus Gees Bend Challenge I'm working on the H variation by Nettie Young. I wanted the half circles to not be perfectly rounded - that was harder than I thought. The off centered placement of the other circles was also on purpose.

Rosemarie Hanus Gees Bend Challenge I also got inspired by circles and non straight lines, so I did this.

Karen Humphrey Gees Bend Challenge I was inspired by Susie Willie Seltzer. Her blocks reminded me of a log cabin block.

Linda Carlson I'm calling this Serendipity Star from the Star Quilts class I took it May.

Linda Carlson Inspired by the Masters Advanced Custom Set Lessons in June.

Linda Carlson - Design used the techniques in the Masters Advanced Custom Set class.

Camille Lechliter - I had fun with the Summer Flower Garden Challenge in June.

Camille Lechliter Combining my pansy with a block from the program.

Marlu Allan Seven Sisters I would love to make this, but I don't think I have the patience.

Rhonda Goss Hexie Fun

Camille Lechliter I suppose this would fit under my "Reproduction Quilts" class I had a few months ago and loved it. Never would have figured this out otherwise. It's "Galaxy Quest Stars" from StoryQuilts.com. I finished it up last night.

Nancy Haddad Lacey Completed the Specialty Rulers unit. Using pieces we created for the Sidekick tool (plus a couple other pieces I needed), I recreated JayBird Quilts Night Sky pattern which is one that I have had for a while but have not made.

Kristy Goodin Soard My applique table topper with a scrappy binding. Huge learning occurred with this unit, Advanced Custom Set. Many aha moments with the ellipse, pie, and arc tool; in addition to using the tool for making shades and tints of colors to match. After learning the process to create the arc shaped pieces, I decided I needed one more challenge, so created the look of a scrappy binding.

Joyce Drenth I continue to learn so many tips and techniques during each of the months. Since I receive two challenges each month from my guild, I spent 'free' time developing new little small quilts to contribute to our fun show-and-share. You can see members' quilts on our website: NSQG.club. The first June challenge was to select a Beatles song title and make a quilt. I selected 'Old Brown Shoe' from their song list since I had some mottled brown wool I wanted to utilize. I designed my quilt in applique and used a multitude of fun embellishments and techniques to complete. I love it and made 3 of them as Christmas presents.

Nancy Messuri I was in Master's Advanced Custom Set and have decided to revisit all of the lessons because there was so much to absorb. In lessons 1 and 2 I decided to try a seven point star. It got a little challenging when I got to block rotations! Here are my results. Quilt 1.

Nancy Messuri Quilt 2

Nancy Messuri It took nearly all day, but I got through my review of Master's Advanced Custom Set. I'm so glad I was able to dedicate a day to this as I understand the concepts much better now. It was easier second time around after having the help session and also going through all five lessons consecutively. I still had a lot of stops and starts, though. Here is my challenge Circle Quilt.

Maureen Pinwill I did a Hexagon Quilt using a Custom Set Layout, using fussy cutting techniques in an attempt to turn the hexagon block into a flower, using floral fabrics to do so.

Lisa Ward Partitioned Circle custom set quilt from Intro to PolyDraw.

Carol Fox A while ago my friend Riette bought and made one of Judy Niemeyer’s pattern “Fire Island Hosta”(http://www.quiltworx.com/patterns/fire-island-hosta/). At that time I tried to draft it on EQ8 but no avail. Recently I came upon another Judy Niemayer’s design: Blue Lagoon (http://www.quiltworx.com/patterns/blue-lagoon/). As my EQ8 skill has improved since my first try, I decided , as an exercise, to tackle the task again. With Kari’s help I was able to draft it this time. My next project : draft my own Judy Niemeyer style design.

Curryanne Hostetler Masters Design Your Own Custom Set Quilt Challenge

Nancy Messuri I designed this Hexie Custom Set table topper with an optical illusion design I drew in EQ8

Helen Hicks Using an original design from 2018, I decided to bring Chester the Squirrel to life and he has a few visitors the woodland fairies. I didn't have much experience and just tooling around and fumbling around for hmm maybe a year and then I Joined in on one of Kari Schell Challenge lessons and before I knew it TKQ enrollment came along think last September and shazam bam the rest is history so here I am , and I'm sticking with it. I certainly am enjoying the journey ty KS ty □

Curryanne Hostetler

Carolyn Block Here is my Master's Challenge Quilt for Advanced Custom Set....great class Kari!

Kristy Goodin Soard My challenge custom set quilt. The setting blocks were inspired by a Karen Stone quilt which we discussed in our help session.

Julie Pedersen My Masters Challenge Quilt---Sea Turtles. A friend of mine sent me a link for the inspiration of this quilt (by Aloha Quilt Shop) . I decided to try my hand at a scalloped edge. I added custom quilting on it as well. I like it. If I made it I would probably add more scallops.

Joyce Drenth The second challenge was 'Bucket List'. Since i already created a quilt of that title this year, I decided to try a new technique on my bucket list. Trispective quilt. Here is my rendition after making a block sized to fit my dimensions. I sized 3 photos of my quilts to dimensions fitting the block size, added them as fabric and fussy-cut them into their respective slots. I printed off the blocks onto fabric and constructed the quilt. So happy!

Watch the video to see the quilt(s) change as the camera moves.

TKQ Masters - Circular Quilts

Tech Know Quilters members are eligible for the Masters program after completing 12 months of Tech Know Quilter classes. During June they worked on Advanced Custom Set and learned to create circular quilts in Electric Quilt.

Masters members receive fewer lessons each month, with more time to devote to their own projects and challenges.

I am in love with their designs.

Nancy Messuri

Joyce Drenth

Kristy Goodin Soard

Wanda Smith Hizer

Pat Harkin

Julie Pedersen

Curryanne Hostetler

Holly Wilson

Helen Hicks

Micheline Herzan

Pat Harkins

Kathleen Scargle McCormick

Other Designs

Diane Cluever

Sharon Kazel

Carol Reeve

Alice Hertel

Karen Eddie Neal

Carmen Sidlaruk

Collien Kaseberg

Camille Lechliter

Jane Godshall

Marijke Nieuwenhuijsen

Cheryl Johnston

Christel Frischmuth

Nancyanne Fisher

Rosemarie Hanus

Karen Humphrey

Julie Kaplan

Helen Hicks

Maureen Pinwill

Charmaine Devaney

Rhonda Goss

Marlu Allan

Tina Rohde

Helen Hicks

Deborah Doucett

Yvonne Sluce

Barb Gardner

Ann Van Fleet

Nancy Dugger Weeks

Karen Eddie Neal

Barb Gardner

Barbara O'Brien

Nancy Messuri Inspired by a design on Pinterest

Congratulations to Joyce Drenth who won the EQ8 design challenge on working with Century Solid fabrics by Andover. Here was her Electric Quilt Design

Happy quilting.

Kari

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