I was looking at old tutorials and I did one post for a review of the quilt design book and one is an optical effect! I won’t copy it exactly, but you’ll get the idea and it’s a lot of fun! Start a new project and right away start with a new block and make …
Have you ever wanted to make or design a sampler quilt with different sized blocks? Here’s a fun one I made a while back. I’ve also shown a tutorial in 2012 on how to create one here The technique is basically the same You start with a CUSTOM SET LAYOUT quilt and set the size …
thru the Accuquilt qube FB group I got a new online friend Renie and long story short, I talked to her about EQ and she bought it!! she’s working on this hexagon quilt and I wanted to show how you can quickly plan your layout in EQ and it shows yardage for your project. Doing …
Last week I got an email from Electric Quilt about the Dear Jane CD set being on sale, I’ve always admired it and I’m tempted to get it as I love QALs and BOMs etc. I was looking at the border and wondered how they did the blocks in the triangles and then I started …
This week is a quick tutorial on Accuquilt applique shapes! Did you know that Electric quilt provides a lot of the Accuquilt applique shapes as a download!? All you have to do it go here to DOyouEQ Follow the directions for downloading and download both files Now I did not have a download folder, but …
I just got more circle dies from Accuquilt and have some ideas already and wanted to show how to play with circles in EQ! When you start a quilt, start with a custom set quilt/ new quilt/ custom set and then set the size I chose a square 40” x 40” Then I created a …
Happy 4th of July – Independence day! I’ve always loved Red, white and blue quilts. Quilts of Valor. Lots of guilds donate Valor quilts and make extra red, white and blue quilts to donate. So I figured today I’d just show a bunch of Red, white and blue quilts to inspire you.
I wanted to show a quick thing I used EQ7 for- a deck design! Hubby and I have been planning to build a new deck in the back yard and of course hubby has done most of the work of doing the foundation, the sided, cross beam supports etc. Now it’s all about the top …
Sorry I totally forgot my tutorial was supposed to be last Tuesday! so I’m doing one today instead… This time I’ll focus on a block called Rob Peter to Pay Paul I looked up the meaning To take from one merely to give to another; to discharge one debt by incurring another. I guess this …
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 …