When I was washing baby clothes, I found a few plain white onesies and then got the idea of embroidering something on one of them. Like our church’s (Calvary Chapel) Dove. So I found the file online and saved it. In EQ Stitch you have to “work on stitching” and then click the trace image …
EQ7 Tutorial Tuesday EQ stitch Tracing/ importing an image Read More »
This week I figured I’d show my “thinking” behind the Planned Round Robin I’ve now hosted twice and where we just had a GREAT finish this month. First you start of with a horizontal layout and only 1 x 1 block and in this one the block is 12” x 12” Now it’s all about …
Today’s tutorial is going to highlight the GRID tool. It’s a handy tool but I think often neglected. When you work on a block it’s on the left side at the bottom of the row. Start off with a 9 x 9 block and no graph paper. click the little red square on the grid …
Recently I checked out the quilt book section at my local library and found several “new” ones that I hadn’t seen before. One was a book about String quilts! Have you ever done string quilts? I’ve done a few and they are quite fun! –either do the strips “planned” with the same width or colors, …
I’ve been really inspired by Turid’s Hexagon project that’s from Grit’s blog called LA PASSION I’m going to show the start/ middle of this and then how it can turn into something else in EQ once you start playing with hexagons. Start with a ONE patch layout of hexagons (H) and do it 31 x …
It’s time to kick off the ROW A LONG with EQ7. At first I was going to do a REAL row, but time got the better of me and I had to step back and instead just do filler rows, where I didn’t have to sew anything. Thanks to Marian for organizing this! Designing filler …
I was looking at my old projects and found an OLD but good one, I think it was because I had made a quilt for my husband years ago and we used it for a picnic the other day outside on the lawn. It’s Tessellating leaves! it’s actually easy to design! First start with 9” …
This week I wanted to show some tumbler quilts in EQ7 inspired by the tumbler dies from accuquilt You can create a tumbler quilt in EQ under ONE patch and pull down the menu and select tumbler. I chose both height and width to be 6” like the large tumbler die. and an 8 x …
I recently had a request on how to create BASIC blocks in EQ, maybe even some that aren’t in the EQ library. It’s “hard” to think about that, as the library has SO many blocks, but here’s a little bit 🙂 Start by going to the “Work on block” section and create an Easy draw …
EQ7 Tutorial Tuesday – Simple blocks to create and resize Read More »
This time I want to show a fun “Illusion” quilt with just two blocks. a “garden patch” block and a snowball block First search for a block using “garden” and you’ll find these. and pick the second one highlighted. then search for snowball and find the 9 patch snowball here Then let a layout to …