Quilt World News
International Quilt Festival in Houston starts on November 1. If you are going, you’d better get organized. 😉
I think I mentioned that I signed up for Threadbias when SeamedUp went out of business. I only signed up. I tried to add a project, but I couldn’t upload the photos for some mysterious computer reason and I haven’t been back. I have nothing against Threadbias, I just feel like a jilted lover. I spent all that time with SeamedUp and now have nothing to show for it. I know it is a risk with free sites, but I will need some time.
All that being said, I don’t dislike Threadbias or anything. I am sure they are a fine crew and doing a fine job. Thus, I wanted to let you know about their Kickstarter campaign to design an online quilt design tool, which is described fully in their blog post. I have not decided whether or not I will contribute, because I am disappointed that they say nothing about EQ7. Why didn’t they call up EQ7 and say “dudes, let’s collaborate on a webtool”? Perhaps they did and were blown off?
I did watch part of the video and the features they have developed so far look pretty cool. Still, I have invested a lot in EQ, so I have to think hard before switching. GenQ Interviews the ThreadBias team on their blog in a Q&A type format. Good info.
Speaking of EQ, follow along with Barbara Brackman’s new Grandmother’s Choice blog starting now. She has started a new blog about blocks. A free block each week. Find the block in BlockBase then build the quilt right in EQ7. The topical topic is: The Fight for Women’s Rights.
Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr of FunQuilts, now Modern Quilt Studio, have a lot of fun news to share with you: classes, books, fabric. Go take a look at their blog post.
Tutorials and Help
Here is another way to make bias binding, if you are looking to try a new way or you have never done bias binding.
Around the Web
Little Bluebell also wrote about the Whole Cloth Quilt Challenge at BAMQG on her blog.
I liked this blog and the pieces shown on the blog. One of the blog posts has a great Swoon block. The blog post is good in general.
Check out Quilter in the Gap (Rhonda)’s giveaway: Dots and Chevrons!!! Don’t enter, just take a look. I want to win. You know I love dots. I have to make a project with all dots, I think.
Thanks Jaye! Lots of good info here.
I’d love to pick your brain some time about EQ7. I’ve got it, but barely use it. Any chance you’ll do a series of “how to EQ7” and touch on a few basic, intermediate, and maybe advanced capabilities?
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Hhhmm. I’ll think about such a series for the blog. EQ has good tutorials and their manual is great. I am much better at learning something when someone shows me, however, so I am happy to give you a few tips and tricks sometime.