I joined the yahoo group for EQ stitch and someone emailed about a “fix” for the old PED basic. it’s a weird work-around but it works!! yay… so I installed this program yesterday and started playing! I’m always JUST done embroidery on my Brother machine, but never tried applique in the hoop well…… it’s SEW …
Tutorial Tuesday! Hexagons (Ahhhh’s) If you follow my blog, you’ll know my latest quilting obsession : Ahhhh’s So this is for you Tonya! 🙂 (someone in the group sent us both the beginning ahhhh blocks in EQ, but as a simple block, so I went a little further) Tonya has been designing these neat hexagon …
BIG NEWS!! 🙂 Since I got such great feedback on the chick block and after talking with sewcalgal I’m happy to announce this great BLOG HOP! EQ (Electric Quilt) Appliqued Animals- Blog Hop April 22nd- 26th If you own EQ and like to “play” with it. This is the BLOG HOP for you!! There …
I got an email the other day about fabrics for the quilt along. OF COURSE you pick whatever fabrics YOU want. Here’s the “original” design” But just by using the random tool in EQ7 I got some different ideas- not all are pretty, but you get the idea 🙂 I wanted to show the progress …
I finally got a squishy package in the mail!! My Quilt u be mine quilt is back and it’s a gorgeous runner! I love it!! truly worth the wait 🙂 look at these small pieced hearts too and a flange, everyone did such a great job! I just sent off the next round of MMRR2 …
How to make CHICK block Last week I showed my quilt in McCall’s here and I got a comment from sewcalgal and she sort of gave me the idea to do a tutorial about this chick quilt/block. This was designed last spring so I tried to remember HOW I did the chick block 🙂 If …
Uhhh, it was so hard to keep this a secret! I’m in McCall’s again AND on the front page!! (well my quilt of course- not ME) I’m so THRILLED! I totally didn’t expect that Here’s the quilt: Chick’s RULE! click here to see it on McCall’s site to puchase the magazine and here to see …
Tutorial Tuesday Fat Quarters- continued I thought I would show some more on figuring out FQs in EQ- hey say that 10 times in a row1? FQ in EQ, FQ in EQ… lol You remember how I made this one a while ago, and made it into a tutorial too with a Riley Blake FQ …
I had a “conversation” with a fellow blogger who said she had a hard time trying to figure out Fat quarter friendly patterns in EQ. here’s MY tip 🙂 So I have this file already- I made a quilt using Riley Blake FQs a while ago Of course you know how to preview fabric yardage??!! …
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This is something I really never played with. Quilting designs/ stencils Do you do that a lot in EQ?? Here’s a quilt I actually made a top for and I was stumped for quilting designs. So I went into block library Then chose stencils there’s cool border designs and filler designs or block designs I …