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 …
This week’s tutorial is more of a block inspiration post. As you can tell, I’ve had a “thing” for sunbonnet sue lately, so here’s some layouts I’ve made. First, if you search for Sunbonnet under the block search you’ll see these the ones with a stippled/dashed line around them are actually MOTIFS (applique) so the …
An online friend was asking me about EQ7 and the friendship star and modifying it and I said YES to all her questions, so Terry; this is for you! First find the star block under Libraries/ Block library I just search for FRIEND and these came up add the first one to the sketchbook Now …
I was stumped as to what to show this week, but then I was looking at recent quilts and published quilts and I figured I’d show the Monkey wrench quilt that was published in Fons and Porter recently Once I downloaded the fabrics in EQ it was easy to design. I found the monkey wrench …
This month I used the BIG Snail Trail Die to make a quilt top for a customer who wanted a quilt for her grandson. She had already bought a bunch of fabrics, her grandson loves army tanks. we agreed on the die (since she saw the blocks on the recent batik quilt I made for …
someone from the electric quilt user FB page asked for help designing this quilt that was a free design First, the quilting lines are “deceiving”, the blocks are ON point, not straight. I didn’t find the block in EQ so create a new 9” block (or anything divisible by 3) use the easy draw block …
ele I didn’t have any ideas for a tutorial this week, so I opened up my EQ7 manual to a random page (155) and it was about line drawings and the arc tool and already I learned something new. When you are designing a block (easy draw+patch draw) be on the appliquéapplique tab,you can pick …
This month’s Club EQ Challenge is to design something with thirties prints and it’s EASY to find fabrics for that already in the EQ library. If you look in the fabric library under 36 Antique is Thirties prints click on fabric and hold down CTRL and A and click the add the sketchbook, to add …
Since it’s a few days before Easter, I wanted to create a fun little Easter table runner in EQ. First start a new file and name it Easter, then do the layout 1 x 1 blocks and have the block be 9” tall by 12” wide Don’t worry about the borders just yet. On layer …
I was looking at my old EQ files and for once started at the bottom of my list and went backwards and found the X and Plus quilt file I did a while ago. First we need to design the block Because of the design of it, it has to be made in kind of …
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