It’s not often that I get a request for a custom quilt but I recently did by someone at our church Our pastor’s son and Raul’s daughter recently got married and soon after that got pregnant and have a little girl now, so Raul asked for a simple quilt in grey and pink with the …
I finally got Open Live writer working again so now I can do screenshots and modify them etc and do easy blog posts! Have you ever looked at polydraw blocks?? Let’s take a look When you want to create a new block, most often you would make an EasyDraw block or maybe an applique? Have …
This week’s tutorial is about a fun and actually simple block The Kaleidoscope block! Here is a layout where I colored every other block and had the X inside dark and the background light, you do this by holding down ALT and with a new fabric selected you click the 2nd block and it …
EQ8 Tutorial Tuesday- Kaleidoscope rainbow quilt Read More »
I’m running out of ideas for tutorials but the EQ FB group is great for inspiration as someone asked a question about blocks designed in one file, how to copy it over to another file or another place, so I’m going to show you the way I do it by importing blocks into another file. …
I saw a question somewhere a while ago (probably the FB EQ group) about if you design a quarter of a block, is there a way to quickly make the other 3 quarters so you have a full block and I had to play a little to find out but it’s very easy! First I …
I’ve been doing these tutorials for so long that sometimes it’s hard to come up with ideas, sometimes I get inspired, sometimes it’s because someone emailed me and asked about something, this time it’s from the EQ Facebook group, a question was asked about how to add blocks to the sashing, and I don’t know …
Are you fascinated with mini blocks? They are SO cute and some make great mini quilts or pincushions! I don’t know if it’s much of a tutorial but just ideas for minis First let’s look around in EQ a bit for some fun blocks, my first place to look is under foundation blocks under crazy …
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Have you ever wanted to make a fun sampler with different sized blocks but still keeping it symmetrical and simple!? It’s EASY and fast! First you have to have a plan about what size you want the blocks and my layout has a large block then 4 blocks together that are the same size alternating …
EQ8 Tutorial Tuesday, Quilt from Block–sampler quilt Read More »
I’ve hosted a few Round Robins now and also participated in several, the rules can be different but I think the basic idea is the same. Start with a center block and work in rounds and let it grow! I’ve already made an EQ7 tutorial here and another one here They are always fun to …
EQ8 Tutorial Tuesday- Medallion Quilt or Round Robin quilt Read More »
I’m sure you saw it already on accuquilt’s blog I made this groovy star pillow (cover) in batik scraps from Island baitk! I made it using the 10” QUBE set so the pillow is 20” x 20” finished You may think that LeMoyne star blocks are hard, but they are not and ESPECIALLY easy with …