But the celebratory quilt doesn't have to be period-correct. We can reflect our own style in s block-style quilt honoring the fifty states or our own home with Quilt Journeys, a new computer program for Electric Quilt Software.
It's an add-on program for EQ8 with pieced blocks and appliqué motifs that represent the United States and Canada alongside fun, historical facts. The program adds dozens of blocks to your Block Library and you look them up by state. Like the rest of EQ's content you can print the block any size or alter it if you like.
Here's your options for Alaska's pieced blocks.
You also get patterns for finished designs that can be customized for
the various states. This is a page for Illinois.
The series began when I wrote regularly for Quilter's Newsletter Magazine beginning in the mid 1970s with America's Bicentennial Celebration.
My sources were earlier publications that printed designs named for states and cities.
As we entered the computer age EQ adapted the series to a program on a disk in the back of a book in 2001.
This is going to be a lot easier. More later.....
Read a post on the EQ blog here:
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