Are you fascinated with mini blocks? They are SO cute and some make great mini quilts or pincushions! I don’t know if it’s much of a tutorial but just ideas for minis First let’s look around in EQ a bit for some fun blocks, my first place to look is under foundation blocks under crazy …
EQ8 Tutorial Tuesday mini blocks for pincushions Read More »
Have you ever wanted to make a fun sampler with different sized blocks but still keeping it symmetrical and simple!? It’s EASY and fast! First you have to have a plan about what size you want the blocks and my layout has a large block then 4 blocks together that are the same size alternating …
EQ8 Tutorial Tuesday, Quilt from Block–sampler quilt Read More »
It’s time for another tutorial, and I couldn’t think of anything until I thought about the log cabin quilt I made with Island Batik recently for their monthly challenge! Log cabins are SO much fun and it was super easy with the Accuquilt log cabin die too! Here’s my initial sketch in EQ for this …
Have you ever started a project in EQ and noticed the “start with a quick quilt project” option? Have you clicked on it to see what’s there? There’s 11 options But each option has lots of different quilts in it too! under “Easy quilts” There’s a simple layout with ohio star blocks then a quilt …
I had a recent request about adding 60 degree triangles around a panel, I’m sure what she is looking for but it’s a great idea to play with panels and border blocks! So here’s what I came up with In EQ8 under libraries/ Blocks there’s section 09 that’s called border blocks, under single blocks there’s …
If you’re like me, addicted to fabrics and love playing with them in EQ, then you might have tried the digital fabric stash sets from Electric quilt? Or you could find new fabrics from whatever fabric company and often have to sit and download each individual fabric into EQ or maybe if you’re lucky a …
I made a quick little video about the quick quilt layout option and auto borders and color swap brush and random recolor tool Have a look
I made another tutorial in EQ8 showing briefly how to write patterns using meta files and MS word. I made this simple runner and show you how to look at yardage/ cutting directions and then export meta files and write the directions. (Basic ideas)
Here’s another tutorial I made in EQ8 about creating a hexagon quilt in one patch Hope you can see it.
Have you seen the NEWS?? Electric Quilt is releasing EQ8 soon!!! -I’ve been fortunate to Beta test for them and EQ8 is SOO different vs version 7! As you may know I started with version 6 and then upgraded to 7 and later EQ stitch, but I remember hearing how 6 was so different from …