I was working on a hexagon quilt this weekend and thought about the amazing fussy cut hexagon quilts I’ve seen online lately and thought I’d come up with a simple tutorial on how you can design your own! First you need to create a one patch layout Quilt-new quilt- one patch layout Then I created …
This week’s tutorial is simple but good to know Do you ever TURN or rotate your fabrics in EQ? I do a LOT especially on borders or with a striped fabric! Here’s a simple on point layout I imported IN BLUE that was part of the new 2017 fabric stash and then put it into …
Last tutorial I showed you how I downloaded the newest STASH from Electric Quilt’s website Now it’s time to PLAY with the fabrics!! Here I have a QUBE sampler I designed for Accuquilt’s blog and made a yellow baby version But Let’s see what different fabrics will look like! Once you’re in the fabric library …
Did you see the newest STASH downloads from Electric Quilt?! I just had to try it!! (I got it for free from them) After you purchase it and enter all your personal information (if you don’t have an account yet) You then have to go back and download the file- it will take several minutes! …
On facebook I saw this fun “challenge” for crocheting. a row a day for 365 depending on the temperature outside Then I thought about a way to make a quilt this way! well 365 days doesn’t really equal into a rectangle, but doing a 16 x 24 grid then you have two rows for each …
I won 34 leaf blocks at my local guild right before Christmas and decided to wait to make something until the new year. In EQ I had to create the block from scratch as there’s no the right one in there. Here I start off with a 10×10” block Then because it’s a lot of …
This is all for you CARLA!! -Carla requested ideas for the Accuquilt GO! Log Cabin and I’ve made one quilt and one quilt top (RSC16)-yet to be quilted. The Log Cabin die by Accuquilt is a fun die, at first I thought I could easily cut a bunch of strips 1 1/2” wide and then …
As you may have noticed, I love doing scrappy backs for quilts, sometimes I sort of plan what I want to do, sometimes I just go for it and sew pieces together, here’s a few ideas of how to plan a quilt back. Often long arm quilters want the backing to be at least 8” …
Everybody LOVES Fat Quarter bundles!- I know I do and have quite a few too many now that I need to use up! As you know I love Accuquilt and their new QUBE sets and I have the 8” QUBE set, which I use a lot! So I’ve been playing around with blocks and then …
Do you ever touch the default export settings? It’s not something I do a lot, but it CAN make a big difference when you want to see what a quilt will REALLY look like! So here’s a quilt I designed in EQ If I were to export it I have a small size and checked …