Tech Know Quilters Project Showcase

After celebrating Christmas with family in North Dakota, I returned a day early (beating the blizzard).  In hindsight -- it was a very good decision.  Now I have been busy preparing for 2019 and welcoming a new group of members to the Tech Know Quilter group.

For this blog post, I decided to feature some of the amazing work that has been happening in the Tech Know Quilter group.  I am so impressed by both the design skills and the skills in using EQ8 by this talented group.

Tech Know Quilter Project Showcase

At the end of each month, I like to challenge the Tech Know Quilter members to create a block or a quilt that applies the lessons they learned during the previous month. 

With the Advent Quilt challenge, I haven't had a chance to highlight some of their most recent work.

October Apply What You Learned Challenge

Holly Wilson This is my quilt with the foundation block, my husband recognized it as being from our Arizona trip. Success in that the program grouped and numbered it correctly. Doing the happy dance.

Holly Wilson Inspiration Photo This month was my first attempt at drawing foundation patterns way out of my comfort zone. Trial and error and perseverance. Success. The picture is from our trip to Arizona the following are my foundation pieced quilt. I cropped the photo, resized and went from there,

Paula Miceli - I thoroughly enjoyed the Foundation Piecing class, as I do quite a bit of paper-piecing. Importing pictures to use as a guide to make foundation patterns was the most useful part of the class for me. This quilt was done in Custom Set. The smaller blocks were ready-made in the block library, and the tree was drafted during our class.

Debbi Treusch In September I had the fabric images class. I Used what I learned to recreate a quilt I made last year. I used the fabric library to find large florals and matching colors to color the quilt. I then used the randomize to map to colors and map to fabrics.

Debbie Treusch pieced quilt.

Julie Pedersen - This month, I learned more about designing blocks for foundation piecing. I took 3 photos of my daughter's cats and the silhouettes found in the block library and designed this wall hanging using a horizontal quilt setting. She loved it.

Wanda Jewell - I am in my first month. I have learned to manipulate the fabric and to pull my own fabrics into EQ8. I LOVE it! I don't have most of the newer fabrics because I have been buying fabrics for the last 30 years anticipating my retirement when I wouldn't have as much money to buy fabrics. :) So, I have a lot of fabrics from multiple sources over a long period of time. Being able to pull images of my own fabrics into EQ8 is a wonderful thing. Wanda shared four different quilts designed from her fabrics.

Dorothee Ilgner - Greetings from Germany. In October, I participated in the foundation piecing class, which was a lot of fun for me. As a challenge I worked on the pattern of a sabletooth tiger. I think he is a pretty impressive animal, but indeed he is quite harmless.

Shann Wheaton - This is my October challenge quilt that I am making and quilting for a friend of mine. As you can see, she like a lot of blue and white. It is a combination of foundation piecing, piecing and applique. Really grateful for all of these classes Kari!

Other Favorite Designs from Early November

Adrienne Q.

Angela M.

Barbara B.

Bev Lundeen

Carrie C. Attic Windows

Cheryl J.

Christine G.

Corrine G.

Deb T.

Debbie W.

Diane C.

Holly W.

Holly W. Cube

Julie P.

Julie P.

Joy H.

Judy G.

Kathleen M.

Kathy A.

Katherine C.

Kathy D.

Kristy S.

Madeline B.

Mandy M.

Marielle S.

Micheline H.

Pat H.

Paula M.

Reed J.

Rosemary B.

Renee S.

Sharon B.

Shann W.

Sharon O.

Sharon Osborne Shadow Quilt

Shirley R.

Wanda Hizer Shadow Box Design from TKQ class

Wanda Hizer Pieced Shadow Quilt This is a quilt I did a long time ago for our local quilt shop to kit up using 10 inch squares. I called it Shadow Box and wrote the pattern for it.

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