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 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 …
It’s election day! GO OUT AND VOTE!! I voted early but my husband wants to vote on THE day, so he’ll vote today! I figured I’d show a little tutorial on this VOTE table runner I just designed. Under Block library find section 03 which is foundation pieced There’s 4 different alphabet sections, I chose …
Have you tried the Dear Jane EQ add-on from Electric quilt yet? If you haven’t, get it now and enter EQBEAQUILTER as a coupon code and it gives you 20% off your order! EQ8 is required! So I’ve had a bit of time to look around at the Dear Jane blocks, so many cool ones! …
I’m trying to get back into my Tutorial Tuesday posts, where I post an EQ tutorial every other Tuesday! I’d like to do more videos but we’re still waiting on fiber optic internet so for now I’ll do screenshots, which is actually tricky in wordpress, just takes a bit longer. I often see this question …
EQ8 Tutorial Tuesday- how to write a quilt pattern with EQ and MS word! Read More »
Are you ever inspired by quilts in a book and want to change it or copy it or change the block size/ colors/ number of blocks etc? I am OFTEN! and this is where EQ is SEW handy!! The other day I was flipping thru a scrappy quilt book, just because I wanted a new …