Today I’m pleased to introduce Creative Spark, a new feature from Quiltmaker and The Electric Quilt Company. We’re so excited about this new idea—and to celebrate, we’re giving away one copy of EQ7 quilt design software courtesy of The Electric Quilt Company.
You’ll see Creative Spark in print and online for each regular issue of Quiltmaker. It’s a portfolio of ideas you can use to take a quilt project in a new, different or alternative direction. In the current (March/April) issue you’ll find Creative Spark on page 50 and online here.
If you use Electric Quilt’s quilt design software, Creative Spark’s quick tutorial will introduce you to expanded options for recoloring your quilts—EQ tools you might not find on your own. I’m probably an advanced beginner when it comes to EQ, but I learned so much from this issue’s Creative Spark. I’m excited to start using the coloring tools I discovered!
Can you believe the images above and below are of the same quilt design? Only the value and color placement have changed. That's what Creative Spark and EQ can do.
If you don’t use EQ, you can still appreciate the recolored diagrams and take inspiration from all the possibilities. Can you believe the two images above are of the same quilt design? Only the value and color placement have changed. That’s what we’re talking about.
Since we’re giving away one copy of EQ7, maybe you’ll be visualizing all the possibilities for your own quilts very soon.
For your chance to win, please leave a comment and tell us why you’d be excited to win a copy of EQ7. Comments will be accepted through midnight Monday, March 26. And please watch for Creative Spark in each issue of Quiltmaker! The winner is Sharon Finkenbine, comment #619. Congratulations, Sharon!!!
I have EQ6 and I like it very much–but I think I’ve only just scratched the surface of what it can do. This “Creative Spark” looks wonderful!
I always doodle out quilt patterns on paper and I am a real techno gadget geek that I would love to play with EQ7!! Love, love, love to………
I have always wanted to get something like this, but it has been out of my price range. I just ‘inherited’ a bunch of fabric from a friend and I would love to play around with design ideas!
EQ is such a fun product. It would be nice to have my designs done in EQ and see all of the possibilities.
I have always wanted a copy of EQ! Thos would be amazing to win!!
I have always wanted a copy of the EQ software (I have something like that for cross stitch, but nothing for quilting *sigh*) because I would love to design my own designs to play with! I never have any luck with winning anything. But, I have always been envious of quilting friends who have used EQ while choosing their quilting patterns/colors. They always look sooo creative!
I would love to win EQ7. I do comission quilting and have used EQ in most all the designing I’ve done. This would complete my EQ programs. Thank you so much for the chance for this.
This would be just the product that I need to expand my quilting. I want a challenge and this would be the perfect way to achieve it. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity.
Wow! Excited wouldn’t be the word I’d use if I won this software! How cool it would be to get to use EQ7!!
OH PLEASE!! I really want EQ!!!! I am so tired of using graph paper and erasing, erasing, erasing. I design almost all my quilts and think this would be the greatest tool for me! Thanks for the chance.
I have always been one to play with my block placement to see “what if”. This would be so much fun to play with! Changing the colors made such a difference on the above quilt! Wow! I’d really love to own EQ!
EQ7 would take my quilting in a whole new direction!!
I would love to be able to design such gorgeous quilts AND try colourways without wasting my precious stash by cutting and discarding!!
I’ve started doing quilts for customers and they all seem to want something original, this would make the process much faster and easier, thank you for the chance to win!
I want to EQ!
EQ7 looks like an awesome tool! Would love to have that kind of creativity at my fingertips.
I love anything quilting! I do not consider myself a quilting “creator” yet. I would love to sit down and play on this program. Its hard for me to put down what I see in my head on paper. I feel like I could learn so much if I had this awesome great tool to use. Thanks for the chance! I can’t wait to see who the winner is
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I would love to have the design possibilities that are available with EQ.
How cool! Tutorials for EQ are an awesome addition.