EQ Tutorial Tuesday, Nov Doyoueq challenge

Do You EQ??

Do you do the EQ Challenges too??

This month’s challenge is to ALTER a block,

and actually I was stumped as to what to do with this tutorial, so this is perfect!

this time I’m writing the tutorial AS I’m doing it, where normally I do something “neat” and then think of a tutorial to show how I did it.

Let’s find some traditional blocks.

I added a “priscilla” block- Hey I just did that block in the bible quilt I was working on, duh! why didn’t that click that it was a category here.

variable star

and some more simple blocks

under 02/ contemporary pieced

That’s enough for now

look in the sketchbook and pick a block to ALTER, then click EDIT

I did the priscilla block and quickly drew lines down the middle and across the middle

I want something MORE though to make it “different”

How about lines at a diagonal

Let’s color it and see what it looks like

it’s cool, add it to sketchbook, but let’s try MORE- though I might go back, we’ll see

from the diagonals intersecting the triangles I drew lines toward the center

and in color.

a BIT much maybe, let’s go back and DELETE some lines

use the pick tool and select the lines and hit DELETE

and in color

I like this A LOT

Let’s turn it into a quilt

now this block would be tricky to piece

but if I drew a line back in the middle it would be fine

it would split it into more pieces, but doable

now with the other block as an alternate it looks good too

look how funky THAT block wants to print!

This is how to “fix” it.

Click the START over button

then click one quadrant of the block and click GROUP

keep doing that with the remaining 3 quadrants

How click the PREVIEW button

Now it shows triangular sections

click CLOSE and go back and it shows the sections now, if you want to number them you can re pick these triangular sections and click the sections in ORDER to number them

here you see the numbering, do you see how the middle triangles, the trapezoid shape has a different number on some of them.

go back to >sections and select “ I want to number myself” and START over

and it prints without numbers

OR you can go under numbering and START over there and number them in order, you’ll see the cursor turn into a “#” sign just click in the right order and finish before printing.

under OPTIONS you can select “print as many as fit” great for applique, but have that unchecked for FPP otherwise you can’t move the pieces on the screen before printing

This way wouldn’t be good to print.

click the MOVE button and move the pieces to fit on two sheets of paper

like this

have fun!!

join the challenge this month, it’s fun!!