This week I’m reviewing Electric Quilts new book QUILT DESIGN it’s awesome!! I learned SO much from this! Here’s a quick review Chapter 1 Basic Quilt and Block Design tricks (neat way to do leaves and borders) Chapter 2 instant blocks and borders – here it adjust a house block and merged with other blocks …
I’m super excited about this new book from Electric Quilt EQ with me: Quilt Design Lesson book for Electric Quilt 7 (EQ7) software. This is the book you’ve asked for! EQ experts show how to design circular quilts, hexagon blocks and quilts, landscapes, t-shirt and photo quilts and MORE. Learn Custom Quilt secrets, and how …
Thanks for a suggestion of doing a FPP block in EQ7. It’s really something I haven’t done much with, so I had to learn this by trial and error this time around and here’s the result that I’ll share with you. How to make a cute owl FPP block with applique I tried to do …
I read on Michele’s blog that she finally got or is getting EQ7. I’m SEW happy for her – I think I’m an enabler when it comes to quilting, she just recently bought the same long arm machine as me…. I was thinking about a “theme” for this tutorial and someone else had asked me …
It’s Tutorial Tuesday Again! Yesterday I showed a quilt I made with an embroidered block in the middle and I figured I’d show HOW you design that in EQ7 First you have to take a picture of your embroidery And measure it. Now open up EQ7 and create a new file My block was 8” …
I’m in McCall’s Quick Quilts October/ November 2013 “Crazy for Daisies” using fabrics from the Mellow Yellow collection by Red Rooster fabrics Here’s the article about it online I had some extra fabrics and made a matching pillow which is a BONUS pattern here You also saw how I used my leftover scraps to make …
This week’s tutorial tuesday is using EQ stitch to make this cute Christmas quilt label Start a new file or open an existing one. Look under Libraries/ stitching Under holidays you’ll find the wreath with a bell in it. Add to sketchbook click Work on stitching button Then click the ARTWORK tab Use the pick …
Since I was recently in Quilt it today with a quilt called Moon glow, using the Go cutter and of course EQ7 to design it, I figured I’d show how I did it. Here’s the picture from the magazine And here’s the EQ pic First You’ll need to download the Go! shapes from accuquilt’s website …
This week’s EQ Tutorial is to show how you can easily modify embroideries from EQ Stitch and create this CUTE baby girl quilt Once you have EQ stitch installed a few buttons change on the top bar. Under Libraries there’s a STITCHING library Select the BABY section and add all 12 blocks to sketchbook Now …
I’m so glad I got an email this weekend with a REQUEST for a tutorial, as I’ve been doing this for a while now and I’m sort of running out of ideas…. The request was this a recipe card quilt. I’m not going to copy the whole thing but instead show how “hidden cards” or …