ele I didn’t have any ideas for a tutorial this week, so I opened up my EQ7 manual to a random page (155) and it was about line drawings and the arc tool and already I learned something new. When you are designing a block (easy draw+patch draw) be on the appliquéapplique tab,you can pick …
This month’s Club EQ Challenge is to design something with thirties prints and it’s EASY to find fabrics for that already in the EQ library. If you look in the fabric library under 36 Antique is Thirties prints click on fabric and hold down CTRL and A and click the add the sketchbook, to add …
Since it’s a few days before Easter, I wanted to create a fun little Easter table runner in EQ. First start a new file and name it Easter, then do the layout 1 x 1 blocks and have the block be 9” tall by 12” wide Don’t worry about the borders just yet. On layer …
I was looking at my old EQ files and for once started at the bottom of my list and went backwards and found the X and Plus quilt file I did a while ago. First we need to design the block Because of the design of it, it has to be made in kind of …
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Today’s tutorial is using EQ Stitch! I’ve always loved Sunbonnet Sue, but never made a quilt with her nor do I have the GO! die- one day I want to make one! In the block library I searched for Sunbonnet and this is what came up For stitching you want a block that’s appliquéd so …
This weekend I got a new laptop and it of course takes some time to convert everything over and now my EQ7 doesn’t want to activate, but I managed to get EQ6 working, so I’ll be showing that today. I was looking at pinterest to get ideas for this tutorial and then found several spider …
I’ve been cutting into my BLUE scraps lately because of the monthly rainbow challenge. I pulled out my bin of blue scraps I didn’t care about if it was light or dark blue, I cut them all with my 3” HST die on my new GO! big!!! (which I didn’t want to show until my …
On the Electric Quilt facebook group, we’ve been discussing strip quilts like the Chinese coin quilts, so SUE this tutorial is for you! This is my easy way of creating the Chinese coin quilt First you create a new quilt ; Quilt/New Quilt/ Vertical strip quilt Then select Pieced blocks and I had 7” wide …
In November I show this quilt that I designed for McCall’s I was inspired by one of my favorite sweaters The design is pretty easy, as it’s all squares, but I wanted to show also how I expanded the design when I realized I needed more columns and rows. First I started a quilt layout …
Many of you saw the JESUS table runner project on EQ’s Countdown to Christmas. I know it’s a free file and if you haven’t already done it, you can download it here. Here’s how I made it First I did a new layout with 1 x 5 blocks (default 9” blocks are fine) Then I …