Today’s Tutorial is more of a highlight or to refresh EQ skills and tools: using the wreath maker instead of copying and pasting and rotating blocks Last Winter I made an angel quilt for accuquilt’s blog So I had the basic idea of adding the angels in a circle with 6 of them. To make …
It’s time again for a EQ7 Tutorial Tuesday. This week I’ll show how to simplify a complicated block. As you know I’m doing my 3rd Women of the bible quilt. Some of the blocks are easy piecing and some are quite tricky! lately I did a block for Jael (Arab Tent) First I didn’t want …
This month’s DOYOUEQ challenge is making some with the double wedding ring blocks. If you search under blocks for double wedding You’ll get 13 blocks, each with different number segments in the rings and side blocks. I added some to the sketchbook with the regular block and the side block. (Plain, 5 and 7) If …
EQ Tutorial Tuesday–Double Wedding Ring DoYouEQ challenge Read More »
Inspiration comes from lots of places and I read a blog recently and thought her border was so neat, so it made me think about doing a tutorial on borders. I’m often guilty of just smacking a plain border or two on a quilt and call it done! but often quilts need more! I’ve made …
The theme for this month with Island Batik was April Showers. So I got the idea to make an embroidered block and then turn it into a pincushion. You will need EQ stitch for this!! I started off with a 4” hoop size ( really pincushions often aren’t that much bigger!) Under the stitch tab …
EQ7 Tutorial Tuesday- STITCH word art pincushion Read More »
Have you tried the new fad of Adult Coloring books?? I have and actually have some neat coloring books from when I was in art school and then recently got a book on amazon and one or two of the designs I recognized! I also (per request) started adding a blank coloring page with my …
Do you ever make or find a kind of complicated block you want to use in a quilt but it needs MORE but adding sashing around the blocks is not really what you want?! How about some sort of frame? Here I have a simple fish from the EQ library in a layout with other …
I don’t think I’ve shown how to WRITE on your quilt for appliqueing It’s actually very easy! Open up a quilt you want to write on. This one is my “Chicks Rule!” quilt that was in McCall’s a few years ago On Layer 2 You’ll see a button called “Set Applique text” (if the button …
You may have seen similar blocks on pinterest and want to make some yourself. First in EQ7 select Block/new block/ patchDraw block Then in the Grid box select eight pointed star Then trace every shape on there Now for piecing purposes, you can either do what it shows on the block OR split the triangles …
Remember how last month I had used a $10 gift card for some embroidery files!? I showed one pincushion already and here’s another fun one! I had fun playing with my camera! I was also in the mood last week to make a blazing star die and use up some of my “old” Island Batik …