I really love using my EQ7 full program to design my quilts and different table runners and patterns. From designing these in EQ7 I am able to get exact measurements and know how much fabric I am going to need too.
I designed the Springtime quilt that Fresh Hope now has
- This is what I had in EQ7 done up and this is the finished quilt….
All the girls stitched their blocks and Dawn put the quilt together and the pattern was written up from EQ7 and is now available to purchase thru Fresh Hope. But of course you know all this.
A few other patterns that I have had published were designed in EQ7 and I really got to say ….I love this program!!
My Around The Christmas Tree pattern was designed in EQ7 too….
and I find that when I need to work out borders and blocks I put the design into EQ7 and let it work it out for me. So much easier than trying to figure out the maths. Never was any good at that in school. Now if someone had said…..Vicki, you need to learn maths and geometry because later on you will need to use it for patchwork then I might have enjoyed doing it way back then in school.
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Would you like to have an EQ7 full program too?
The Electric Quilt Company has so very generously given me an EQ7 program to give away.
Wow!! How awesome is that? Valued at $189.95 US you just got to agree with me on that.
Ok….here’s what you need to do to hopefully win your very own EQ7 program. This giveaway is open to all over the world.
Each one of these gives you an entry to hopefully win…..
1 entry - Leave a comment telling me why you would like to own your very own EQ7 program
2 entries - Become a follower of my blog and leave me a comment telling me you are or have become a follower
3 entries - Share on your Facebook page, then come back here afterwards and leave another comment
4 entries – If you put up a link to my The Pickledish Patch store on your blog (If you have this already just say in a comment on this blog post) - use this link….. http://www.thepickledishpatch.com/store
5 entries - Put my Giveaway button on your blog and let your readers know about my giveaway. Come back here and leave another comment on this blog post telling me you have done it.
Use this button…. Just right click and save to your computer.
(I will check your blogs so please do this or your comment won’t count. )
So you have 5 chances of winning this fabulous program.
This giveaway will run from today until 27th October. AEST
So good luck everyone and I hope that you win it.
Hugs to all……
Hi Vicki, I would love to have a program like this as I have ideas but I find it very hard to imagine what a finished item might look like in my colour choices..... thanks for the chance to win one...
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... and I am a follower of your blog...
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Hi Vicki I would love to be in your give away But I dont know how to do all these things on the computer But good luck to whoever wins it Have A good Weekend.
ReplyDeleteHugs Mary.
I've been wanting this program, but I'm currently on a spending freeze. I've beenplaying around with some small designs of my own, and this would save a lot of graph paper! And I'm terrible at guessing how much fabric I need to buy. thanks for the chance!
ReplyDeleteI've been a follower for some time now!
ReplyDeleteooooo me wants! I've been following you for ages Vicki.
ReplyDeleteI have been looking at this program since it came out, I just couldn't justify getting it because of the cost. How can I argue with free?
ReplyDeleteI am a follower!
ReplyDeleteThis would be so great. It always takes me so long to count all the details for a new quiltayout. And it would be so great to play with colours on the computer already!Thanks so much!
ReplyDeleteAnd I am already a follower of your lovely blog!
ReplyDeleteCount me in! I don't have EQ7 and I like techy stuff.
ReplyDeleteI'm a follower :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway.
This would be a fantastic prize to win...I currently use pen and paper with a calculator so this would be so good....I am a follower Vicki.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to win...hugs Khris
wow Would love to have won and not bought one but hey its fabulous that your giving one away.... I just love the quilts you designed and must say the Fresh Hope one was amazingly written, so easy to use...and came togther perfectly...
ReplyDeleteHugs Dawn x x x
P.S. Love your Christmas design...
Wow Vicki, I would just LOVE to win that one! Think of all the graph paper, maths headaches and mistakes I would save!!! Sounds wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI'm a happy follower!
ReplyDeleteI would love having the EQ7! I love designing quilts! I am a follower too!
ReplyDeletehugs Karen
Vicki it would be wonderful to be able to design my own beautiful quilts with the EQ7.
ReplyDeleteThank you for a chance to win one.
I have been a follower for a long time and enjoy reading your posts.
ReplyDeleteHi Vicki, I would love one of those 'gadgets'. Having heard so much about them I can see just how often it would be oh so handy.
ReplyDeleteI am a follower and have your Pickledish Patch button on my blog.
ReplyDeleteI am back again from letting my blogging friends know about your offer, and putting up your button.
ReplyDeleteI would love to win this as my math is rubbish too! I also find it difficult to work out what colours to use and always find it easier when I actually see what a project would look like first. Thanks for the chance to win one. Linda
ReplyDeleteI already follow you. Linda
ReplyDeleteThank you for the opportunity to win EQ7!! I have recently finished my first quilt design and having EQ7 would have made it sooo much easier!
ReplyDeleteI have been a follower for quite some time. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the lovely giveaway! I would love to win the EQ7 so that I could translate my thoughts and ideas to actual quilts. It would be so much fun to have!
ReplyDeleteLong time follower of your blog
ReplyDeleteOh Vicki, you are too kind, I have been a follower on this blog before you were Pickledish Patch, I also have you as a friend on Facebook and have a button linking your blog on my blog, I currently own EQ6 and love it so would be silly not to upgrade to 7 and I am off to place a button on my blog to let everyone know about your wonderful offer....I have my fingers and toes crossed to be a winner
ReplyDeleteWow Vicki
ReplyDeleteWhat a great offer. To experience EQ7 would be amazing. Designing is something I dabble in now with graph paper & pencil EQ7 would sure change that.
Hope I am lucky.
Debra
HI Vicki
ReplyDeleteI have been a follower since the days of Tozz's Corner.
thanks for the opportunity.
Debra
Hi Vicki
ReplyDeleteI am back after putting your giveaway button on my blog.
Thanks again for the chance.
Debra
... and I am a follower, have been since Tozz's Corner days.
ReplyDeleteDebra
I have trouble getting the design from my head and then to paper and all the calculations done so I think this is a must! Thanks for the chance
ReplyDeleteI am also a follower. Thank you
ReplyDeleteOoooh Vicki, I would just LURRRVE my own copy of EQ7 because I've just started to branch out into quilting and would like to design my own blocks etc and whilst I did find a tutorial on how to make your own blocks in Word, EQ7 is just the Beez kneez lol It would make things sooo much easier for me with all the calcumalations too! Hugs Naomi
ReplyDeleteI'm a follower of your blog....of course, yes sirree I am! Hugs Naomi
ReplyDeleteI've shared it on my Facebook wall...albeit a cheeky post! Hugs Naomi
ReplyDeleteJust shared a link to the giveaway on my blog. Hugs Naomi
ReplyDeleteI just put a link to your store on my sidebar, just above the button for the forum. Hugs Naomi
ReplyDeleteI am presently doing a RR and this program would make life so much easier so I would be thrilled to pieces to win. Thanks for the chance .
ReplyDeleteI have been a follower for a long time :-)
ReplyDeleteHi - I've been a follower of your blog since I started blogging! I'd love to own the EQ7 as it would make it easier to transform ideas of quilts into reality. I love to quilt and would like to do more designing, but being time poor (with 8 kids!) it is a rare opportunity to be able to sit down and think of a new design. I love to make quilts designed by other people, but love to play with designs as well. Cheers
ReplyDeleteObviously, I was supposed to make this two comments - so here is the official "I am already a follower" comment. Cheers
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful opportunity. I wouldn't mind winning because it's something I just can't afford! I do all my 'designing' the old fashioned way (I prefer to use the term "traditional") and have reams of graph paper scribbles. Some are in notebooks, some are still on the pad, others are under this pile, or tucked in that book!!
ReplyDeleteOMG what a great program! I knew about the blocks layout, but I had not thought about stitchery blocks and settings for them, too!!!I would love this!!!!
ReplyDeleteI would love this program, how much easier things would be.
ReplyDeleteI am a follower.
Thanks for the chance to win!
What a great giveaway! I would love to have EQ because I've seem to design my own quilts all the time and I know it would be easier if I had this to help. Thanks for the chance! :0)
ReplyDeleteAnd of course I'm a follower of your blog! Thanks again! :0)
ReplyDeleteWht a fun win...I am a follower....and I will post your button on my blog....thanks for this awesome opportunity.
ReplyDeleteWow! I would love to try EQ7 as I have so many designing ideas poppint into my head these days, and it just takes so stinkin' long to draw them all out by hand. And then you can't manipulate them.
ReplyDeletehello, wy I like to win....becaus I am a "quilter for a good year and completly addicted to it" so this program will give me the oppertunnity to create the things that areturning, and turning with idees in me
ReplyDeletebut good luck to all who takea chance to win this lovely give away
hugs from belgium
quitingmieke
I am a follower - plus, I keep you on my blogroll. :)
ReplyDeletehello I am following you now
ReplyDeletehug quiltingmieke
I currently have EQ5 and would so like to upgrade to EQ7 with all of its advances. Thanks for the opportunity to enter your great giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI'm a little sad right now as I cannot stitch, due to a thumb injury.. I just need to create somehow. This would let me still create, even if it were to create patterns for future use.
ReplyDeleteI would love this program because I have all kinds of ideas popping into my head but have no idea how to go about making them a reality.
ReplyDeleteI am already a follower.
ReplyDeleteI just posted about the giveaway on FB.
ReplyDeleteI have your blog button and link in my 'Quilting and Stitching Links' tab.
ReplyDeleteI have posted about your giveaway and also put your button at the top of my left sidebar.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the five chances to win this wonderful giveaway!
I would love to win EQ7. I want to start designing my own patterns. Thank you for the chance to win. Take care and God bless, Cory
ReplyDeleteOh I would love this - my math leaves a lot to be desired, I missed a lot of school as a kid [hospital visits] and never really learned it - I've dreamed of getting EQ! Especially since I'm designing quilts now...Your around the christmas tree quilt is GORGEOUS!
ReplyDeleteI'm a follower!
ReplyDeleteAnd I have your button on my blog, have had since you got it!
ReplyDeleteI have used previous versions of EQ and find it to be a wonderful program! Would love a chance to win this!
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I am a follower of your blog through my google reader, can send screen shot if needed!
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I have posted about this giveaway on my Facebook account...would really love to win!
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I have posted the photo with a link back to you and posted a message on my blog! thanks for a fantastic give-away!
ReplyDeleteentry #4, and #5!
have a delightful day!
Hello Vicky,
ReplyDeleteI am a follower since , I don't know. I have you in my favourite Link-List, but I am not with facebook and don' t want to either.
So do I still count as a follower? *g*
Hello From Doris in Germany :o)
...again Hello, Vicky,
ReplyDeleteI just would love to win the EQ 7, because it' s so much fun to design your own patterns and see how it looks like later done in real, istn't it?
xxx Doris
Hi Vicki! I've been a follower of your blog for quite a while now...always enjoy it! Sandy sxygrndma48@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteI am now a new follower.Trish
ReplyDeleteI would love to get my hands on EQ as I am still working old style and planning all my quilts using graph paper and pencil - it works but is slow and isn't easy to change or experiment with colour. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI also follow you using Google Readers.
ReplyDeleteIt would be a thrill to design my own patterns without all the math that's involved. Your pattern the Springtime quilt is so nice. Trish
ReplyDeleteI would love to win this program. I've been designing on graph paper for a while now. I always struggle with fabric requirements. This would help me so much! Thanks for the chance to win!!!
ReplyDeleteThe reason I would love to own my very own EQ7 program is because I love to design things whether it is quilts, table runners, clothes or even baking. This program will help me to put my ideas into the computer and out into my sewing room. Thanks, Elizabeth
ReplyDeleteI follow your blog!!!
ReplyDeleteI have been a follower of your blog for I think 2 years. I enjoy your designs and the easy to follow instructions you provide. Thanks, Elizabeth
ReplyDeleteI would love the chance to win the EQ 7 then I could really have fun designing lots of things.
ReplyDeleteI am a follower of your blog
ReplyDeleteI'd love to win a copy of EQ7. It would be great to start designing and have a picture to see what it would look like.
ReplyDeleteI'm a follower. Thanks for the chance.
ReplyDeleteI would love to win. It would give me the chance to play around with colours and patterns while taking away the fear and guesswork.
ReplyDeleteI'm a follower of your blog
ReplyDeleteI would love to learn how to design my own quilts. I have tried with graph paper but am too impatient.
ReplyDeleteI am a follower
ReplyDeleteI posted your giveaway on FB
ReplyDeleteI would love to have my own EQ7 program! I always change patterns and then I get to the borders and don't know how to add a beautiful pieced border. I bet EQ7 would help me figure it out! And I would love to try my hand at designing blocks. Oooh, and it can help me decide on fabric! My fabric choices are alwasy questionable. I would play with EQ7 everyday!
ReplyDeleteI am a follower!
ReplyDeleteI am one of your many followers. :)
ReplyDeleteI shared on my Facebook page!
ReplyDeleteI`d like to have one EQ and try designs quilts.
ReplyDeleteI`m a happy follower.
ReplyDeleteI posted about your giveaway on F/B and gave your blog addie. :)
ReplyDeleteI posted your giveaway on my blog. Trish
ReplyDeleteI don't do facebook. Trish
ReplyDeleteI am already a follower.
ReplyDeleteI would love to win the EQ7 so I could design my own pattens for quilts and things.
ReplyDeleteYour store link is already on my blog.
ReplyDeletePosting about your giveaway on facebook with the addy.
ReplyDeletePosting about the giveaway on FB, thanks for the chance to win. Sometimes I have designs in my head but can't get them on paper... maybe EQ will help me
ReplyDeleteI like designing my own quilts on the computer and would love to use a program specifically for that.
ReplyDeleteIm already a follower.
ReplyDeleteI'm a "visual" learner, so having this would let me actually see what the fabric and colors I'm considering would look like wih the pattern I'm choosing. What a treat THAT would be! I'd LOVE to win this. Thanks!!
ReplyDeleteI'm a new follower.
ReplyDeleteI am a follower of your blog
ReplyDeleteI have a link to The Pickledish Patch on my blog.
ReplyDeleteI have blogged about your giveaway and added the button.
ReplyDeleteI would love to win a copy of EQ7as I have a lot of trouble picking colours and design layouts. I thing this would be very helpful.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you -This is AWESOME.
ReplyDeleteI would love to have EQ7 as I love designing quilts. I know that this version has so many features that make designing a breeze.
I am following for a second chance to win this Awesome Prize - the EQ7 program!
ReplyDeleteI would love to win the EQ7 so that I could put some of my designs that are in my head on the computer. Maybe I would actually make a quilt.:)
ReplyDeleteI would love to win an EQ7 program, because I just can't bring myself to paying for one. Thank you for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI am a new follower to your blog
ReplyDeleteI would really like to win an EQ7 program! First of all I would not have to wrack my brain about math anymor, sometimes it just wants to make me scream! Also I would be able to attempt things with designing my own quilts that I am unable to do at the present time. So count me in and thanks for taking you time to do this for all of us.
ReplyDeleteI would love to win the software. I have seen it used at my LQS and thought it would be fabulous for designing quilts.
ReplyDeleteI've just signed up as your newest follower.
ReplyDeleteWhy I want to win this program? It's awesome! Yes, designing quilts on graph paper, doing the math, etc, is do-able.... but I designing and changing colors around? Printouts? Yardage? Awesome!
ReplyDeleteCan't join again, becasue I've been following you ever since I discovered blogging!
ReplyDeleteJust posted to Facebook...
ReplyDeleteI would love to have EQ7 to design my own quilts. Thank you for the chance in your giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI'm a new follower. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI put up a link to your The Pickledish Patch store on my blog.
ReplyDeletehttp://salliessampler.blogspot.com/
I put your Giveaway button on my blog and let my readers know about your giveaway. http://salliessampler.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteI'm a new follower, what a awesome giveaway, thanks!
ReplyDeleteEQ7 would be fun to use to design quilts, thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI enjoy using software to accomplish my tasks and would like to design more readily than pencil/paper take me. This would be especially helpful for resizing blocks and using colors to give me an improved sense of how my quilt will look. Plus, having a forecast of fabric requirements, applique / foundation shapes -- oh, I would be in hog heaven! Thanks for the chance to win EQ7 - couldn't afford it otherwise.
ReplyDeleteHey there, just wanted to let you know I posted a message on my Face Book page. I am not very good at using facebook but I think I did it right. Thanks for the opportunity to win. I do not have a Blog as yet so this is it. Thanks, Elizabeth
ReplyDeleteI would like to win an EQ7 because I am aweful at putting colors together. This would really help me see how the finished product would look. Thanks or the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI am a new follower.
ReplyDeleteI blogged about your giveaway at:
ReplyDeletehttp://new2quilting.blogspot.com/2011/10/drunkard-path-roly-poly-owl-and-block.html
I put The Pickle Dish Store button on my blog!
ReplyDeletehttp://new2quilting.blogspot.com/2011/10/drunkard-path-roly-poly-owl-and-block.html
I'd love to win this software! I spend so much time sketching and scribbling on graph paper - this would be so much quicker for designing quilts and figuring out fabric requirements.
ReplyDeleteI'm a new follower -
ReplyDeleteI would love to win a copy. I have another program and I never use it, too confusing and never does what I want it to. I have windows now, so I can use the good programs;)
ReplyDeleteDebbie
I would love to win your giveaway. I dont have the best imagination so I'm always having to draw out what I "imagine" a layout of a quilt would look like. This software would make that so much easier.
ReplyDeleteI am now a follower of your blog. I think. The sign-up to be a follow is different from any other "follow me" I've done so I'm not sure.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to win this software to help design quilts - would be so much fun to play with. I need it because I have real trouble visualizing how things are going to look and don't like to end up hating a quilt!
ReplyDeleteYour button is on my blog sidebar: http://quiltyascharged.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to win it for my friend Carol C.
ReplyDeleteI follow your blog.
ReplyDeleteI put your store button on my blog also: http://quiltyascharged.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteI would love to win the program. I do all my designing on graph paper and would really like to move into the modern world :)
ReplyDeleteI would love to win this so I can create my own designs or variations of others. I use good old graph paper and usually calculate something wrong. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI'm following now!
ReplyDeleteI have been looking at this program since it came out, I just couldn't justify getting it because of the cost. How can I argue with free?
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing with us.
Kids Bed Linen
I am just dying to try this program out - everyone in blogland seems to be raving about it!
ReplyDeleteTracey
thepeonyteacup.blogspot.com
I'm also a new follower of your blog :)
ReplyDeleteHello, I would use the EQ7 to design my quilts and other patchwork stuff. I love to have the EQ7.
ReplyDeleteHugs
I am your a follower too.
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I have put your shop button on my blog ..
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I have put your button of Giveaway EQ7 on my blog.
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Hugs
I shared your Facebook page!
ReplyDeleteIt's great to have so many opportunities! Thanks!
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I have heard about EQ program for such a long time but I've never been able to experience it so I would love to try it. With limited time for sewing, I am sure it would be a very valuable tool rather than calculating on pieces in paper. I liked maths at school but I am rusty now!
ReplyDeleteI am a follower of your blog and have been for a very long while. I have your blog on my blog roll as well.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a wonderful programme, count me in please
ReplyDeleteI have just stumbled onto your blog, and would love to win the EQ programme to help organise all the ideas floating around my head!
ReplyDeleteI am just at the point in my quilting journey where I find myself wanting to make a change to a design. I'd love to give EQ7 a try. Thanks so much for hosting this giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI am a new follower of your blog! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteEQ7 would sure help me decide how to put certain fabrics together and how much I need to buy.
ReplyDeleteI'm a follower :)
ReplyDeletewould love a chance to win a copy....perhaps with all that technology i could start designing some beauties to share!!!!
ReplyDeletethanks sweety
Sugary hugs
WEndy XXX :O)
...and I'm a follower too!!!!
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I've FB'd it too!
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You're button's featured on my blog as well!..top right! hope you like! will blog about it later and get back to you!
ReplyDeletexxx hugs
just blogged about the giveaway....didn't really want to cause I wanna win!!! tee hee. But, anything to support a fellow blogger and friend!!!!
ReplyDeleteXXX big hugs
Wendy :O)
I have been trying to be a quilter for years, & have been collecting all the supplies needed for a long time too. I am currently on a spending freeze myself, but If I win, this will help me out greatly, & save me time to create,as I am math challenged. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
ReplyDeletenew follower! Thanks~
ReplyDeleteyour link posted on my blog about the giveaway!
ReplyDeletebutton added top left margin!
ReplyDeleteshared on my FB Fan Page...Yay!!!
ReplyDeleteHaving EQ7 do all the math would be amazing. Thank you so much for the opportunity.
ReplyDeleteI am a follower!
ReplyDeleteI have put your giveaway button up on my blog.
ReplyDeleteHi Vicki, I just have to be in this, so I can have my very own EQ7. Thanks for the give away.
ReplyDeleteI have been a follower for a very long time. Hugs.
ReplyDeleteI have blogged about this give away as well.
ReplyDeleteBeing able to work up instructions for designs and look at color options would be awesome for teaching. I'd love to have this program. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI've been a follower for quite awhile.
ReplyDeleteBeen following for a while :)
ReplyDeleteBesides having so much fun with it, the EQ7 would help me decide on colours. Takes me forever to choose fabrics.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to have this program , count me in please
ReplyDeleteI enjoy looking at quilts that people dsign in EQ7 and would love to play with one too!
ReplyDeleteEQ7 would be so much faster than coloured pencils and graph paper! Plus I could tweak and twaek without having to either lose work by erasing or copying the whole thing out again. And did I mention the chore of figuring out yardage? I'm sure you have figured out that I would love to win a copy of EQ7...
ReplyDeleteI've just become a follower.
ReplyDeleteI just blogged about your giveaway and posted your button. Thanks for the extra chance to win.
ReplyDeleteOh Vicki! I'd love to have this program. If I did, rather than having all these ideas running around inside my head, I could actually put them on my computer! Perhaps I could focus on something other than fabric, patterns & colours. LOL
ReplyDeleteI'm now a follower of your blog, and would still love to win this!
ReplyDeleteThis is my first entry, and would like to say that I'd love to have this program because it would help me figure out what fabric amounts I need. The first quilt I made for my mother for her birthday, I ended up getting WAY to much fabric for the quilt and ended up with 2 yards of fabric of each print left over. Let's just say that I didn't want too much left over but didn't mind either.
ReplyDeleteThis program would help me tremendously!!!
I'm following you, and I'm glad to because I noticed you have some great tutorials and freebies too! Thanks!!
ReplyDeleteI notified my friends on my facebook about EQ7 and this contest, not sure they'd know what EQ7 was but hey some may!!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
I have your store link, linked on my blog at the bottom of my page. You can see it here: http://my-sewing-journey.blogspot.com/ in the shops section. :)
ReplyDeleteAdded your button my blog!
ReplyDeleteI just realized I may be late on entering this comment. Hopefully I'm not too late. :(