A while ago I showed a tutorial for EQ stitch on how to trace this dove (The calvary chapel dove) I actually stitched it out on a onesie before I gave birth to Anja but didn’t want to show it until she could wear it to church 🙂 Which she did this Sunday. Here she …
Angela at Soscrappy/supearscrappy has posted another “rainbow” scrap challenge for 2016 I had all intentions of joining this year, but never even GOT started! I realized my problem was inspiration! I’m determined to join in 2016 and figured I needed to have a back up plan of lots of scrappy quilts in rainbow colors. So …
EQ7 Tutorial Tuesday- So Scrappy rainbow colors for 2016 Read More »
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 …