Tech Know Quilters January 2021 Showcase

My mother (who is in Assisted Living) received her second vaccine a little over two weeks ago.  I decided to surprise her by taking her out for a late birthday meal.  It will be her first time in over a year that she has been able to leave her Assisted Living Center.  Unless you count the trip by ambulance to the ER after a fall.   

So instead of working on an Electric Quilt tutorial for this blog post I will be driving to North Dakota today for a short trip.  I already have an idea for next week  that I think you will enjoy.

Be inspired by the showcase of projects Tech Know Quilter members have been doing.

January 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 January class, they were encouraged to apply what they learned during the month of January. 

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.   ​

​I love having people at different stages of the EQ journey submitting designs.  I am so proud of this group of quilt designers.

Alla Blanca just started in Tech Know Quilters

Alla Blanca - I have had a FQ bundle with associated panel for a decade. Wanted to put squares from the panel into my "your blocks in a box" layout, which I have only used for 12" sampler blocks in the past. In Working with Fabrics, I was able to find the fabric on Moda's website, resize the panel, and fussy cut the panel squares to fit in the quilt. It's a busy set of fabrics, so maybe I won't use them all, but this was a super-helpful unit to get me using this 2011 fabric!  Alla plans to piece her quilt.

Joyce Drenth I was in the Master Dresden class this month and utilized several of my blocks to create a new setting

Lynne Maramieri Working with Fabric Images, Lesson 9 Advanced Rotation. I imported fabric from Northcott to re-colour this quilt. Having lots of fun!

Elisa Welch Cossey-Brock The first quilt I saw that I fell in love with was a bargello quilt. So excited to learn how. I never follow all the instructions so here is my modern bargello. I hope you enjoy my craziness! (This was created from one 24 inch block.)

Karen Eddie Neal Finished designing the Dresden for the tie quilt. But still not sure if I might want to change something. Hopefully I can start making it soon as the colors will be quiet different as I used what was in EQ.

Camille Lechliter I LOVE the Reproduction Quilts class! Here's one I found in a 1987 book - "Fans Galore for Modern Quilters" by Betty Boyink. The block is called "Milady's Fan Variation (Feathered Fan Friends)", The traditional "Milady's Fan" is one of "Aunt Martha's" patterns.

Camille Lechliter Here's another quilt block pattern I found in "Quiltin' Time", Vol. 1, c1982, by Maxine Utterback and Cheryl Zibell. It's called "Gordian Knot."

Edith Craig I am in Month 1 where we discussed fabric libraries, placing fabrics in a quilt, block libraries, and changing the colors within the block. I have created 2 versions of this simple quilt using blocks and fabrics from the EQ libraries.

Edith Craig Version 2

Jackie Rigert I have all the paper piece templates, and fabric ready to go for an illusion quilt.

Sandra Roybal DoYouEQ Project (January 2018) Ready to be quilted.

Sandy Roybal Finished a 2020 Mystery. One less UFO!

Sandy Roybal 2020 Mystery Back

Sharon Kazel I took the Modern Quilts class this month and enjoyed learning about custom set quilt designs.

Julie Pedersen This is my quilt that I designed for the last lesson of the Masters Modern Dresden Class. I love this.

Moira Hewitt I took mix and match medallion borders, I learned about the swath tool, and how to draft corner blocks.

Kristy Goodin Soard I took Kari's Masters Modern Dresden class and wanted to use our classmate, Reed Johnson's, new fabric line, Coco Chic to create the majority of my quilt. I had fun making a modern looking quilt, and Reed's fabrics are sensational.

Dorothee Ilgner In the dresden class I learned how to bring a block from poly draw into easy draw. Using the partitioning tool I drew some more lines to get this block with a slight 3-dimensional look.

Linda Carlson Masters Modern Dresden (inspired by Lesson 6)

Dotty Smalley My goal in the TKQ Modern Dresden class was to create a Dresden using strips from a jelly roll. Here is my design.

Dotty Smalley Here is the quilt I made using part of a jelly roll. The Dresden was made using Me and My Sister's Double Wide Dresden ruler and the star used The Strip Tube Ruler by Cozy Quilt Designs. Thank you Kari Schell for all of the great lessons.

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Dresden City or Town Quilt Challenge

The Master's challenge for January was to design a Dresden city or town quilt.  The inspiration for this challenge came from the a pattern by Persimmon Dreams (Kim Lapacek).   Also check out her Pinterest page.   The goal was not to copy her pattern, but to create a circular quilt comprised of homes in your real or imaginary town.  

Jan Guerard

Carole Fox

Kristy Goodin Soard When I went to Pinterest to research for the Master's Challenge for Modern Dresdens, I found one that was made with Cherrywood Fabrics that I thought was gorgeous. So I simply recreated that quilt.

Linda Carlson

Pat Olivier I have admired these village quilts for a long time. I would never have considered it a Dresden. Now I need to make it.

Tina Rohde EQ Drawing

Tina Rohde Here is the finished wall hanging.

Joyce Drenth Sparked by Alex Anderson's current birdhouse project, I decided to make my houses 'bird' houses! I used Andover's Century Solids for my quilt.

Curryanne Hostetler My Master's Challenge as a Table runner.

Holly Wilson

Holly Wilson

Pat Olivier This was definitely a challenge. It is my subdivision where old retired hippie's live.

Julie Pedersen Here is my City at Night dresden.

Nancy Haddad Lacey Halloween Houses

Kathleen Scargle McCormick I decided to use fabric designed by Reed Johnson and enter this in the EQ challenge too....2 challenges with one pattern. Liked the fussy cutting and the work of the windows, and some details being done by the fabric. Great fabric, Reed and a fun challenge from EQ and Kari!

Joy Hegglund

Dorothee Ilgner Does anybody of you know the 'gone away lake' stories from Elizabeth Enright? When thinking of this challenge I remembered the sweet stories I loved as a child. I depicted a row of summer houses around a lake with the mirror images in the water. In the middle of the lake is Craneycrow, a small island.

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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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