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Tech Know Quilters July 2019 Showcase

7/27/2019

 
I love this time of the month.  I am able to go back and revisit all the awesome projects created by Tech Know Quilter members during the previous month.  The hard part is figuring out what to include in this post -- as this is such an incredibly talented group of designers.
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Apply What You Learned Challenge for June

At the end of each month, Tech Know Quilter's members are challenged to share a block or quilt that demonstrates what they have learned during the last month.  Some will add a personal touch to a lesson or series of lessons.  Others will create a block or quilt from scratch -- which really cements the concepts being taught.
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Holly Wilson personal application of scalloped border
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Wanda Hizer Learning a lot about designing borders. Here is my design using the Eight Pointed Star Border.
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Sandra Roybal Advanced Border Class
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Nancy Messuri I was in the Mixed and Matched Medallions class and decided to go wild using what I learned in Lesson 10, Make Mine Modern. I sure had some fun!
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Linda Carlson I took the Optical Illusion Class in June and LOVED IT! The first photo is the Star quilt we made.
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Linda Carlson This Spiral Ball was also created in the Optical Illusions class. I especially liked the gradated fabric illusion, too.
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Linda Carlson My third quilt utilized the Magic Triangle block we created, then made it into a Wreath.
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Marlene Steimel In the advanced borders class we did prairie points. I decided to try putting them in the round.
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Curryanne Hostetler This quilt was the one I made for my daughter, Tabitha. It is a block I created . The block was not a star. It was created from putting the blocks together.
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Curryanne Hostetler block
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Curryanne Hostetler quilt back
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Kristy Goodin Soard In Advanced Borders Class Lesson 12 we learned how to use elements from the block to create a coordinated border design. I used portions of the main block's applique to carry over into the mitered borders. I mitered all three borders so they could be strip pieced then mitered all at the same time. I also created a flange incorporated into the binding. I did try the randomize tool to map to fabrics, but chose the solids as they provided the more traditional look I had hoped for.
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Denise Mohler This is what I learned from Lesson 11 in Easy Draw this month...I love the arcs...so much fun....
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Carole Fox I was in Mix & Match Medaillon. I used what I learned with the edit tool and specially partition and stagger in the following New York Beauty. I also enhanced the spikes in the center blocks with little round spot of appliqué.Some of the fabrics featured were from my scanned stash (from the first month" Working with fabrics"). All in all I put a little bit of all I learned so far in that project.
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Julie Pedersen This is my Advanced Border Designs Quilt. I used techniques that were used in the lessons for creating the blocks for the borders.
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Debbi Treusch I had the intro to applique class in June. I started with an image to trace the applique motif block. Then I added a frame block from the library that coordinated very well with mine. I set them into a quilt with 2 auto borders and then recolored the quilt to my liking. Kari Schell you'll probably notice that I seem to like checkerboard borders. â–¡â–¡ I like the vibrant colors and elegant look of this quilt.
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Dorothee Ilgner In June I was in the Advances Borders Class. I also reproduced a quilt by Mary Schaffer called 'Prairie Queen', which was based on an older quilt from the nineteenth century. I decided to add prairie points to that quilt.
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Dorothee Ilgner I was able to finish a layout for a mariners compass quilt also. I started it some time ago but got stuck. In Karis Help Session from early July was a helpful hint about using easy draw instead of poly draw for the compass. That put me on the right track - thank you, Kari.
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Joan McMullin I completed this quilt this month using what I had learned in my first two classes -- importing fabric photos, and EasyDraw. The center of the quilt is the Space Quilt from embroideryonline.com. This was all new to me and a lot of fun. Thank you, Kari, for your great instructions.
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Joan McMullin Space Quilt top
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Joyce Drenth n the Advanced Border Class I learned many tidbits of helpful information that I added in my notes section for the each lesson. One time saver was coloring one block in the main layout and adding it to the sketchbook. Less recoloring needed thereafter. After lesson 11, I decided to draw a more detailed ribbon border to add to a horizontal layout collection of EQ blocks. Loved this month's lessons, Kari.
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Mary Landon Challenge
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Barbara Bobbitt I really enjoyed the Intro to Applique!
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Mary Landon Here is my Gee's Bend inspired quilt. This is a copy of Martha Jane Pettway's quilt. I hope to make something unique later today. This was a challenge for me, trying to make the lines wonky.
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Rick Danner Gees Bend Challenge lright. I did it. My experiment was to create fabric from fabric--ie, utilizing every scrap of fabric to create larger pieces of fabric from which patches are cut and then sewn together. I fabricated 12X18 pieces of "fabric" from "scraps" in a polydraw block then translated those images into fabric and used them to color the block in Easy Draw. I think this honors the ethic of the women of Gee's bend who did not have whole yard goods with which to work.
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Wanda Jewell Boxer Rescue Quilt Option 1
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Wanda Jewell Boxer Rescue Quilt Option 2
Wanda Jewell This is one of the classes that I was really interested in taking. I design Boston Terrier and Boxer Blocks for my Rescue Quilts that I donate to different Boxer and Boston Terrier Rescues that I am friends with from my rescue days. I often draft a block from a photo of a dog by hand on paper, then use that design to draw out my templates. Using EQ to draw and then being able to print templates will hopefully make my designs faster from concept to actually putting them into a block. Although it looks like I am gonna have a learning curve before I can get them to look really good like my hand drawn ones do. 

Anyway, the block I designed for this month’s challenge is NOT from a photograph. It is from me using the shape tools and tweeking the shapes into the shapes I wanted them to be. It was a lot harder than it looks. If you do a close up on the eyes, I think I did a really great job with them, The shape of the head and ears, not so much, but I think they will get better with practice. I need to figure out how to make the legs look better too. But everything takes practice so… practice, practice, practice will be my mantra until I get it down pat. 

This month’s quilt uses the vine blocks that we learned in your Intro to Applique Class that I deleted and inserted modified flowers and leaves until I was happy with them. I did one vine with just leaves as I had put 2 flowers in the other ones and I didn’t want it to be too crowded. I am very happy with the way it turned out. I even got some of the leaves to overlap the inner border that we made in the block. 

I placed the Boston Terrier that I made in a Churn Dash block. My Granny always called that one Hole in the Barn Door. He is off center on purpose as a Boston would never lay right in the middle of the design, they would be at a crazy angle. 

Here is my Boston in a Barn Door Quilt. I am very pleased with it since I did not think that I would be able to do a Boston Terrier that looked good.   I think he looks pretty doggone good for a first time drawing on EQ. 😊 Thank you so much for teaching me how to do this. I am hoping that the intermediate Applique lesson isn’t too far away. Then on to the next advanced one after that. I can’t wait to be able to whip out applique quilts on EQ8 with the precision that some of the ladies in past Challenges have done. 

I can’t decide which of these 2 I like the best, so I am sending them both to you. 
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Wanda Jewell - Quilt in EQ for Howie Dowie
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Wanda Jewell Howie Dowie quilt ready to trim.
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Wanda Jewell Howie Dowie block and photo

​Other EQ Designs and Quilts by TKQ Members

After pulling the submissions for the challenge, I enjoy going through the other posts from the last month in the TKQ private Facebook group.  This is an incredibly talented group of quilters and here are a few of my favorite pictures shared last month.  

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Lynne H. (Moda Blockhead) quilt and EQ drawing
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Holly W.
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Wanda H.
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Suzanne G.
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Suzanne G.
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Rick D.
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Nancy W.
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Susan Schaf One Patch Quilt
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Kathy D.
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Dotty S.
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Shirley R.
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Mary M.
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Jennifer L.
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Joy H.
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Janet I.
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Sandy R.
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Mary L.
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Julie P.
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Holly W.
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Shann W.
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Kristy S.
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Barbara O.
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Nancy M.
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Curryanne H.
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Carole F.
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Carrie C.
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Sharon O.
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Mary M.
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Kathy A.
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Kathy A.
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Debbie T.
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Barbara O.
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Peggy C.
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Sara B.
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