Club EQ Challenge - February 2012
What is ClubEQ?
ClubEQ is a free club any EQ user can join, simply by using EQ to design a quilt. Club leader, Barb Vlack, presents monthly challenges. Those EQ users who join the challenge (and the fun) send in a project file. These projects are displayed together on the Web. Participants receive projects from all the other challenge participants that month. So send in one project file, and receive many more in return! No sewing necessary!
This month's challenge!
Current Challenge: Jacob's Ladder!
This year's challenge for "New Quilts from Old Favorites" at the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY, is "Jacob's Ladder." Let's design with any of the variations of the Jacob's Ladder block. You're welcome to use the traditional Jacob's Ladder block or an interpretation. There are many possibilities!
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It's About the Angels
There are angels that descend and climb Jacob's Ladder during his dream, according to the Old Testament story in Genesis.
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Stars and Ladders
I used the traditional block from Grandma Dexter. The six-point stars seem appropriate for the Old Testament reference to Jacob's Ladder in Genesis.
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You can submit EQ6 or EQ7 designs for the challenge. Keep in mind, EQ7 users can open EQ6 and EQ7 files. EQ6 users can only open EQ6 files.
The deadline for this challenge: March 1, 2012
Monthly Challenge Rules:
Please follow the rules. Following these steps helps us post the quilts to the albums and give participants the files faster. Each time we have to try to figure out what you meant to send or do, it slows us down and delays the release.
If you project does not meet one of the criteria, we will correct the issue, post it that way on the web, and will not take further corrections. For instance, if you send a project with 12 quilts, we will pick our favorites and only post the minimum. Or, if you don't name your project or put anything on the notecards, we will only put the file name on the albums and your quilt will be lonely without its story.
To participate in this challenge:
- Create an EQ6 or EQ7 project file based off the current challenge description.
- Submit up to two quilts. Projects should be in the EQ6 or EQ7 format.
- Name the project after yourself and follow our naming convention. My name is Andrea Bishop, so my project would either be called: 201202AndreaB or 201202ABishop. If you have a popular first name, please use the last name version instead.
- Include information on the notecards:
- Quilt name
- Your name
- Where you are from
- Your e-mail address and/or website
- Include as much other information as you'd like.
- Please do not submit any copyrighted work that should not be shared.
- Keep the number of fabrics (scanned or otherwise) to a minimum and make sure they are in the 8-bit/256-color bitmap format. We ask this to keep the size of your project reasonable. (Under 300KB is amazing, under 600KB is ok, anything 700KB-1MB is a bit excessive, and anything over 1MB is too much.)
- Eliminate the following before sending:
- all quilts other than the 1-2 you wish to submit
- unused quilt blocks
- unused block colorings!!
- unnecessary scanned fabrics
- unused fabrics
- Submit the file by attaching your project file to an email to penny@electricquilt.com
- All entries will be displayed in the Albums section of our website.
- When you send the email, please include the words Club EQ in the subject line and in the body somewhere. Too often we get emails with no message and just an attachment which looks more like a virus email than a Club EQ project file.
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