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If you need inspiration to make that Baby Quilt, you've come to the right place!
Thank you to the 34 participants who contributed to the clubEQ April Challenge.
Be sure and check the guidelines for the clubEQ May Challenge as I will be asking you to send .bmp files and/or .pcx files, instead of sending the project files for clubEQ Challenges.
| April Challenge -- Spring Babies
With the coming of spring (in the northern hemisphere) and all its new
beginnings, let's think of babies. And, of course, the obligatory quilts
for them. Design a baby quilt. Consider size, theme, color, whatever. You may design this quilt in EQ3 or EQ4. Of course, those with EQ3 will be able to accept only EQ3 files, but that doesn't mean they can't _submit_ EQ3 files with their designs. Barb Vlack |
Since these files are over 2 years old, the project files are not available.
Some email addresses may have changed.
All files in this challenge can be opened in
Electric Quilt 4 & 5.
All files are EQ4, unless noted as EQ3 file.
Go to Electric
Quilt's clubEQ webpage for links to all of the challenges,
plus the rules for joining in on the fun.
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Playful Things
What's more appropriate for a baby quilt design than the Baby Blocks layout? Here, I've asked EQ to skew applique patterns to 60 degree diamonds for blocks. There is no more work to applique these blocks than if they were square. And EQ will draw out the patterns for you! BarbV Illinois |
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Boys' Pleasures
I set applique blocks with a transportation theme with a pieced sashing that can be cut from strata strips. The fabrics are set in the sashing to look like the blocks interlock, much like the giant puzzle pieces kids may play with. I have made a real quilt with this setting. It's so easy and has a fun look. BarbV Illinois |
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This quilt is made with one center block in layer 1. The rest of the
quilt was created by first adding several borders to the bottom only of the
center block. Additional borders were then added around the whole quilt.
The ability to add a border only where you want it opens up a whole new world
of design possibilities.
In layer 2, I set the Sails Out block to fill the whole blue square. Then I added the Sails In block and adjusted it to fit the center of the Sails Out block. The sailboat block I used with Wreathmaker to make the Sails Out and Sails In block is found in Contemporary Applique under Toys. After I created the Sails Out block I thought, "What If I rotate the boat 180 degrees and make another wreath." I was delighted with the results. Then I played around with layering the two blocks. Reminds me of a big star made of sailboats. Sherry California |
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I thought about the cow jumping over the moon. Since there was no cow
in the motifs, I decided to use horses.
I had so much fun designing this quilt after I realized that the applique motifs needed to placed on layer 2 and could be resized and moved around. Yvonne New York http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Garden/1617/ |
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Fishes, Faces and Frogs
Here in Australia, EQ4 has not yet arrived (April 3) so my April challenge has been done in EQ 3. It is a quilt in real life, that I made for my baby grandson just last month and that I designed in EQ 3. It is a great babysitter, for when he is tired but has to wait or if he is out of sorts the quilt keeps him entertained with all the bright colors to feel and the smiley faces to talk to. Judy Australia - EQ3 |
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This is a two-fabric quilt meant to look like a piece of lace. It was
a lot of fun to design (excellent PatchDraw practice!), but it's definitely
a girl's quilt. All the blocks in this quilt are either original adaptations
of EQ blocks, or original drawings. (At least I haven't seen them anywhere
else!)
Sherie Indiana
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Faith Wisconsin |
Jennifer Kansas |
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An Afternoon Under The Patchwork Tree
The trees were created by modifying blocks from EQ4. |
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This baby quilt I am making for a friend of mine who is expecting her
baby by the end of April. The Penguin block I saw in the austrian Patchwork
und Quiltjournal, Number 42, Jan/February 1999 and redrew it in EQ3 (still
waiting for EQ4 to arrive here in Switzerland.). The dolphin block I saw
in the book "A Quilter's Ark" by Margaret Rolfe and also redraw it in EQ3.
Now I have to hurry up to search for fabric for this baby quilt and I also hope to have it finished when the baby arrives. Edith Switzerland -- EQ3
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Ethel Oregon |
Shirley Ontario |
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Butterfly Kisses, Teddy Bear Hugs
Most blocks are from the Library. I did a little tweeking on a couple. This is a take-off from a block I saw (called Wild Duck Block) in 'The Mountain Mist Blue Book of Quilts' by the Stearns & Foster Co. (1950's?) This block had an applique tree on the right, a single fan 'pond' in the lower left corner, three daisys around the pond and a duck flying between the tree and pond. It was 100% applique. Sue Texas |
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My interpretation of Kipling's "The Elephant Child"
Things I learned about EQ4 as I worked on it: 1. I realized I could draw a picture frame/window in PatchDraw, delete the background fabric, and end up with an empty frame I could set in Layer 2 to frame parts of a background block. FUN! 2. The new PatchDraw tools are even better than they were in EQ3. I especially like that the selected line or node holds when you are editing and you don't usually wind up accidentally editing an adjacent line. This makes PatchDraw REALLY easy to use. Suzanne Florida http://members.aol.com/SangerSL/quiltcottage.html/ |
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Jane California |
Irene Texas |
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 Am making this quilt for a friend |
Mercedes Iowa |
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Julie's Calico Cats
The quilt is one I made in 1995 for the baby of friends, and I thought I'd try to draw it in EQ, to see if I actually could. The neat thing about this quilt was, I made it from 5" charm squares I had collected, and after I cut the pieces (1 rectangle + 2 squares per cat), I had a 1 1/2" square left of each fabric. I set them aside and later decided to use them to create a "little sister" for the first quilt--made a doll quilt with all the same fabrics, and gave it as a 1st birthday gift. Both are cute as can be! Ginny New Jersey
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Go to Electric
Quilt's clubEQ webpage for links to all of the challenges,
plus the rules for joining in on the fun.
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Page updated
July 17, 2005
Pat Tribbey, author of this page
