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Folk Art Dreams
by Sue Spargo

Sue Spargo was born in Zambia. She received her education and trained to be a nurse in the nearby country of South Africa. Shortly after, she moved to England; it was this shift between two very different environments and cultures that inspired many of her designs. Obviously, Southern Africa has had a considerable influence on Sue Spargo's life and creativity.

The stark contrasts between the arid beige and browns of the African bushveld and the lush greens of the rolling hills of Southern England have continued to be a rich source of ideas. Sue is influenced especially by the energy and color of traditional African designs. All these early experiences combined to stir her love of “primitive” arts and crafts and grew into her focus on folk-art.

Throughout Sue's life, the United States beckoned and in 1989 that dream was fulfilled, she Sue moved to Connecticut and subsequently to Tennessee, Utah and Ohio. Each new State presented sharp contrasts and stirred new ideas. With each move she met many new and wonderful quilt enthusiasts and through them added abundantly to my knowledge and creativity.

Sue Spargo's folk-art imagery, melding African mystery with English charm, reflects her multicultural roots in Africa and England.

Her projects can combine wools and cottons, with beads, button and embroidery embellishment. Learn to blend wool, cotton and embellishments, creating easy folk-art appliqué projects using this stand-alone software. Fuse, needle-turn, or print the designs right onto fabric!

Make it like Sue or make it you!

• 16 projects
• 190 blocks
• 1300 fabrics
• over 1500 design elements
• dozens of quilt layouts
• quilt design tools
• sewing instructions
• video interviews with Sue
• quilt photo gallery
• endless fun!

Select from 190 blocks. Fill your layout, or modify Sue's. Mix & match, rotate, rearrange, choose from 1300 fabrics and recolor.

Recolor your blocks with fabrics from Sue's special palettes. Find fabrics by color, or in ready-made color combinations arranged in special "Sue Spargo palettes."

Print perfect patterns for your quilt. Print templates, rotary cutting charts, yardage estimates and more. You can also print colored pictures of each block, and of the whole quilt. The Quilt Info sheet will give you the information you need on quilt, block, border and sash sizes, plus any notes you keep in the program.

Watch video interviews with Sue. See embroidery and embellishment tips, plus a gallery of quilts for color ideas.

Electric Quilt Company

Flagship Software Programs

EQ6 Companion Books

Quiltmaker Magazine
Quilting Designs on CD

Stand Alone & Compatiable with EQ

Using with EQ6

All Quilting Designs patterns can be used in EQ6. This lets you use EQ's design tools on the patterns to:

• color them with thread
• set them into quilt layouts
• edit and combine parts to make new designs
• the Quiltmaker Library links automatically to your EQ6 Block Library

EQ5 &/OR EQ6 Libary Blocks or Design CDs

Foundation Paper Piecing @ the Electric Quilt Company
Software, CDs & Foundation Sheets

EQ Printables
Foundation Sheets
25 Sheets

Sew Precise Collections

**EQ5 or > Required

Kaleidoscope Collection
Designed by Andrea Bishop

Stand Alone

Sew Precise! Col. 3, Shirley Liby Designs

Stand Alone

Sew Precise! Collection 4, Donna McDade Designs

Books with Electric Quilt Companion Software

Stand Alone

Stitched with Love
By Robyn Pandolph
Book with Folk Art theme
Includes Design CD

Other Authors who have created CDs with Blocks for Electric Quilt inspired by books

Quilted Diamonds 2 with DVD
by Linda Franz
Optional EQ Blocks CD

EQ Printable Colorfast Printer Fabric

More EQ Printables for Appliqué, Quilting Overview and Foundation Piecing

Folk Art & Primitive

Applique & Pieced

Wool Appliqué & Wool Folk Art

Also See Needle Felting

Pretty Little Felts
by Julie Collings

Art Girlz Wool Felt
Shapes & Squares

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