Are your scrap bins flowing over? Mine are!! and often when I cut a project, I put the scraps of fabrics to the side on my counter by my Go BIG cutter and when the pile gets too big so it’s in the way, I sort the colors and put them in my bins. The …
I’ve made these before and I think I’ve shown how to make them too, but if I haven’t, here’s a quick tutorial on making nursing pads! A friend requested these as I’ve made them for her before- but I don’t think I’ll charge her for them and I’m going to send her a quilt too- …
I guess I’m on a kick about using scraps and making baby quilts! I wasn’t sure if I wanted to turn this into a pattern or not, after it’s done I think I’ll just show it and not turn it into a pattern. The whole thing started because I had 4 orange FQs and didn’t …
The other day I was playing around in EQ and I was kinda bored, then I had an idea to find a random blocks and design something with it! I counted the sections in 01 classic pieced and found it had 39 categories, so I entered that into random.org and got the number 21, which …
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It’s time for another fun blog hop! This time it’s hosted by Carla at Creatin’ in the Sticks When I signed up to do this I thought about something “stripey” and my scraps! and I realized I hadn’t done a string quilt in a while, so I played in EQ8 for a while and came …
It’s EQ8 Tutorial Tuesday! Do you ever design “on-point” quilt layouts in EQ? It’s not my favorite style because the border measurements are odd, but I do design on point quilts once in a while, it’s actually easier to “trick the eye” with that kind of a layout. Here is a simple layout with diamond …
Have you ever designed a tumbler quilt in EQ? To design a tumbler quilt, you have to start in the One Patch Layout, by default it starts with a hexagon layout On the left there’s a Patch Style pull down menu and there’s lots to choose from- play around! Tumblers are near the end When …
Some people don’t know that EQ has SO many Foundation Paper Piecing patterns in the library and you can easily edit them and the update with EQ8 vs EQ7 is that the foundation pattern prints in color now! Let’s start I have this quilt as a pattern in my shop called Starlight Starbright, I also …
Quilters often LOVE or hate Flying geese blocks! I don’t know why, maybe because it’s all triangles? a quarter square triangle and 2 half square triangles? that’s a lot of bias edges and easy to stretch or skew when sewing together?! I think Flying geese are fun and use them a lot, of course I …
I often get asked about what design program I use and if it’s “worth it” and the answer is always, YES get EQ8 you won’t regret it, it’s awesome and you can do so many things with it. First of all it has LOTS of blocks already in the library and there’s different categories too …