The company offers hands-on EQ education in Perrysburg, Ohio at EQ Academy, each year. Since 1991, it has produced many software editions, published numerous books, and a whole line of downloadable block patterns called Boutique Blocks.īut equally important is education and customer support. Today, The Electric Quilt Company is the leading quilt design software company in the world. Viewers from across the country called the television station. So as Penny worked on a new television series, Dean spent spare time teaching himself programming, then developed the first Electric Quilt software program.ĭean’s program debuted on a segment of Penny’s “Great American Quilt” program (WBGU-TV) in 1991. And Dean had an idea he hoped might help quiltmakers develop their design ideas on-screen. The Electric Quilt Company started as Dean Neumann, then a math professor at Bowling Green State University, married Penny McMorris, a corporate art curator and producer/host of several PBS series on quilting. Today, I continue to help test our software and make decisions about projects and products, but mostly I manage and oversee the financial affairs of The Electric Quilt Company.īecoming a grandmother has been one of my greatest joys in life. I have loved the autonomy and personal growth that a small company can offer. I even helped Penny launch our first website, and assisted Dean with minor programming tasks. I learned to design brochures and advertisements, write user manuals and online help. Then came order taking, tech support and always, always, beta testing the latest EQ. And what an amazing opportunity this has been for me! As the first employee, I started out packing product and running to the post office.
I was in the process of renewing my teaching certificate.
Neumann” for a college math class the previous fall. I didn’t hesitate about becoming The Electric Quilt Company’s first employee when I received a phone call from Penny McMorris in the spring of 1992. The former marathon runner and now active walker can be seen with camera in hand on any given day in Bowling Green, Ohio…………and the EQ staff loves when she ‘pops in’ to cheer on her former teammates! She enjoys photography and travelling with her husband and EQ co-founder, Dean Neumann. Penny retired from EQ office-life in 2016. To her staff, her enthusiasm and cheerleader-style customer service has been a model to follow even though she’s no longer in the office. At EQ, she was the friendly voice on the phone or in email, the newsletter writer, lesson writer and much more. Her real passion was helping contemporary quilt artists have their works be seen. She convinced the local PBS station (WBGU-TV) into letting her produce and host several television shows about quilt history as well as contemporary quilts. Penny enjoyed art history and especially quilts. Penny was the corporate art curator for Owens-Corning Corporation headquartered in Toledo, Ohio for many years.
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