Last week I got an email from Electric Quilt about the Dear Jane CD set being on sale, I’ve always admired it and I’m tempted to get it as I love QALs and BOMs etc. I was looking at the border and wondered how they did the blocks in the triangles and then I started …
This week is a quick tutorial on Accuquilt applique shapes! Did you know that Electric quilt provides a lot of the Accuquilt applique shapes as a download!? All you have to do it go here to DOyouEQ Follow the directions for downloading and download both files Now I did not have a download folder, but …
I just got more circle dies from Accuquilt and have some ideas already and wanted to show how to play with circles in EQ! When you start a quilt, start with a custom set quilt/ new quilt/ custom set and then set the size I chose a square 40” x 40” Then I created a …
Happy 4th of July – Independence day! I’ve always loved Red, white and blue quilts. Quilts of Valor. Lots of guilds donate Valor quilts and make extra red, white and blue quilts to donate. So I figured today I’d just show a bunch of Red, white and blue quilts to inspire you.
I wanted to show a quick thing I used EQ7 for- a deck design! Hubby and I have been planning to build a new deck in the back yard and of course hubby has done most of the work of doing the foundation, the sided, cross beam supports etc. Now it’s all about the top …
Sorry I totally forgot my tutorial was supposed to be last Tuesday! so I’m doing one today instead… This time I’ll focus on a block called Rob Peter to Pay Paul I looked up the meaning To take from one merely to give to another; to discharge one debt by incurring another. I guess this …
It’s funny how inspiration hits me about doing these EQ7 tutorials, last week I got several emails about an old post I did about tumblers and then comments about the last tutorial on one patch quilts, so I figured I’d do a sort of review on the one patch quilts, as it’s a lot of …
I always try to make tutorials that are either inspired by my current work or from inspirations I’ve seen online! This week I figured I’d show how I make a ROW for the upcoming Row Along (which are always very popular) I don’t do the whole row the same and tend to work simple with …
I was working on a hexagon quilt this weekend and thought about the amazing fussy cut hexagon quilts I’ve seen online lately and thought I’d come up with a simple tutorial on how you can design your own! First you need to create a one patch layout Quilt-new quilt- one patch layout Then I created …
This week’s tutorial is simple but good to know Do you ever TURN or rotate your fabrics in EQ? I do a LOT especially on borders or with a striped fabric! Here’s a simple on point layout I imported IN BLUE that was part of the new 2017 fabric stash and then put it into …