EQ7 Tutorial Tuesday–Go! Value die

I was looking at my booklet from accuquilt and thought about dies I haven’t tried in a while or not at all.

Then I came across the Value die that you get with the Go! cutter when you buy it and I don’t think I ever designed a quilt around it, so why not!?

It makes a 4” and 2” finished square and 2” finished half square triangles

So immediately I thought of a 8” block.

I started with an 8” block in EQ and made the grid and snaps at 16

and started playing.

Now this would JUST include the squares, no triangles

but still a fun block

and fun quilt

Let’s go back to the block

how about a simple star block

and a quilt with this block

I would probably make it scrappy then

going back to the original block and adding triangles in just the corners

and a quilt with the block again

how about a mix of blocks

or this one

Let’s go back and do another block that’s not symmetrical.

Start by splitting the block into a four patch

Easy to make a simple double four patch block

Can’t remember what this block is called

in a quilt layout

and every other block rotated

and having the four patch alternating with the block

After downloading some monthly fabrics from DOyouEQ

I colored this in with April 2014’s fabrics.

And this one using the July 2014 Tonga batiks

(If you don’t know how to download fabrics into EQ, I did this tutorial on it)

Have you tried to make a quilt or designed a quilt using the Value die?

Link up either a quilt made or an EQ sketch.