EQ7 Tutorial Tuesday–review of one patch

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 fun to use!

When you open EQ, start by creating a new quilt:

Quilt/ new quilt/ one patch

My last quilt I worked on was hexagons, so that’s what it shows

When you click the layout tab at the bottom left, there’s a pop up box that shows your one patch design- here again it’s hexagons

When you open up the patch style, there’s LOTS of options

Custom,

Hexagons (H)

Hexagons (V)

Lightning

Trapezoid (H)

Trapezoid (V)

House

Diamonds

Kite

cobblestone

Thousands pyramids

Tumblers

Rectangles

Custom (glide)

Under custom, it shows a cobblestone design

You can actually go in and drag the dashed line of the sketch in the pop up

here I dragged the top line all the way up and moved the vertical lines a bit too

here I created a chisel

Next there’s hexagons H –horizontal

so the straight edge of the hexagon is horizontal

Hexagon V is the vertical version

You can adjust the edge length of course, default is 1” (1” sides) that’s how you buy the paper pieces or if using Accuquilt dies, they measure the side of the hexagon NOT the widest part.

Next is lightning

You can also change the width and the height

here I did a 4” x 2” that’s a good size for a flying geese shape!

Or a 4”x4” is like the isosceles triangle (I think)

Next is Trapezoid, that’s like a tumbler!

Horizontal vs Vertical

If changing the measurements again it looks like the wedge die from accuquilt!

But notice on both of these, that they are the exact same rows, they face the same way.

Next is the house shape

Of course you can change the size of that too

Next is diamond

If you change the width and height to be the same, it’s like an ON point layout

Or you can make then shorter and wider

Next is the kite shape

looks quite different when it’s made wider

Cobblestone is pretty basic, it’s octagons with matching squares.

Great for english paper piecing!

next is thousand pyramids

it’s different than lightning, as here the sides match up together, so the wide bottom touches another wide bottom or top and the tips touch each other.

This is a nice layout to do the equilateral triangle layout in!

Next is the tumbler.

Just like the lightning and pyramids go together, the tumbler goes with the trapezoid, depending if you want the rows to mirror/match each other or you want the rows to be the same as the one above!