Since I’m doing the Accuquilt monthly Challenge this year, I love to try and design quilts in EQ7 first to get ideas. One of the new dies in the fall of 2013 were the bow tie die! The finished block size is 4”- kind of small but GREAT for scraps!! This is the picture from …
As you may know, I’m doing an Accuquilt GO! Challenge each month in 2014 and I figured I’d show how to design quilts with the hunter star die. Each section is 6” but finishes at 12” for a star (4 part block) First if you search for “HUNTER” in EQ blocks You’ll see these. Add …
Last week I was sorting my Go! dies and I really want to use them more (just wait and see- hint hint) anyways, I figured I’d do a tutorial on some of the dies! First, I bought the mix and match set with my Go! cutter and and then downloaded the patch block idea chart …
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 …
Today I’ll show you a fun little way to add your applique (or embroidery) designs from EQ Stitch onto a quilt. First I started with a basic log cabin quilt layout here the blocks are 16” so the center is 4” Then I found a few applique leaf blocks (search for LEAF) added those to …
Christmas is near, so I was thinking of starting Teacher gifts, I asked my son and he has 7 teachers this year! wow…. mug rugs it will be and I was thinking of embroidering the middle part and designing it using EQ Stitch. So here we go! To easily stitch out something you want to …
This week I’m reviewing Electric Quilts new book QUILT DESIGN it’s awesome!! I learned SO much from this! Here’s a quick review Chapter 1 Basic Quilt and Block Design tricks (neat way to do leaves and borders) Chapter 2 instant blocks and borders – here it adjust a house block and merged with other blocks …
Thanks for a suggestion of doing a FPP block in EQ7. It’s really something I haven’t done much with, so I had to learn this by trial and error this time around and here’s the result that I’ll share with you. How to make a cute owl FPP block with applique I tried to do …
I read on Michele’s blog that she finally got or is getting EQ7. I’m SEW happy for her – I think I’m an enabler when it comes to quilting, she just recently bought the same long arm machine as me…. I was thinking about a “theme” for this tutorial and someone else had asked me …
It’s Tutorial Tuesday Again! Yesterday I showed a quilt I made with an embroidered block in the middle and I figured I’d show HOW you design that in EQ7 First you have to take a picture of your embroidery And measure it. Now open up EQ7 and create a new file My block was 8” …