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 …
I’ve been having some fun with EQ7 again 🙂 This is VERY picture heavy, so be patient I woke up the other day and thought of a block looking like a sunset so I created this one did an alternate pinwheel block thought that was too much so did a plain grey as alternate Then …
EQ7 tutorial Tuesday Striped tumbler block (having a block be your “fabric”) I woke up on Christmas Eve with this idea 🙂 I LOVE my Go! cutter and especially love my FUNKY dies One favorite is the TUMBLER block. I’ve seen many quilters make tumbler blocks with strips of fabrics and I want to make …
EQ7 Tutorial Tuesday- Feathered Stars This may not be so much a tutorial, but it’s more of a show and tell to high light the feathered star block and a few other tools. so first create a new project and name it feathered stars then in the block library, find the feathered stars and pick …
Hexie Baby Block fun! This may not be so much a tutorial, I just played around with the baby block setting. Hopefully it will inspired you to play with baby blocks too! Start off with a new quilt and have the setting be baby blocks. QUILTS/ new quilt, baby blocks it will look like this …
Again this weekend, I was “playing” with EQ7. And I saw “create quilt from block” – never noticed that before after trying different things, here’s what I came up with. First, add blocks that have boxes in the block, like the four patch or nine patch (no triangles) Here I added just the four patch, …
the other day I was playing with eq7 again- no surprise right?- well that’s how you learn! I noticed a PICTURE quilt, under new quilt option, so I played around a little more and figured I’d show you what I came up with. First start a new file, I named mine picture fun, then go …
I know it’s been a little while since I reached 400 followers, I’m now at 406!! I’m happy to have Electric Quilt Sponsor this giveaway They are giving away a copy of “Quilt Design Wizard” QDW is a quilt design software for beginning quilters and beginning computer users. It is an inexpensive way for you …
How to creat a Sampler Quilt in EQ7 I often wondered how “THEY” created sampler quilts. I’ve tried before and just didn’t quite get the look I wanted or exact blocks. This time I was determined to figure it out!! First start a new CUSTOM quilt where you just get this “blank” page. click the …