I’m not really sure if you’d call this cross stitch quilting, but you’ll get the idea, and this was inspired by the EQ FB group, where someone had designed a pixelated quilt design and then realized it was not centered and asked how to fix it, as you can’t insert rows or columns like in …
I’m finishing up the RSC16 blocks and one of them is the Accuquilt Fleur de lis block. Honestly, I’m not LOVING them now. This block so far is 6 1/2” but I decided to add a 1” black border around each one. So then I wanted to play around with ideas in EQ7 and see …
I was thinking about this lesson (I believe I missed one, two weeks ago) I got the idea of stars! There’s so many star blocks out there and if you’re designing a quilt, often a star block is a good block as an alternate block. But then which one do you choose? I’m going to …
EQ7 tutorial Tuesday- Star blocks, which to choose? Read More »
I’m sure you may have seen my Graceful Flower’s quilt blog post and pattern on accuquilt! I’m going to show you how I ended up coming up with this idea for Accuquilt. Since I have the 8” QUBE set, I of course made the quilt layout 8” blocks and a 5 x 7 layout The …
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You saw my recent quilt in Quiltmaker. a fun scrappy flying geese quilt that I designed in EQ7 My scrappy finished top isn’t quite the same but the geese are flying right, I just moved the colors around a bit. Since I knew I wanted to use the GO geese die, that one is 6” …
I’m part of an EQ user FB group and Darlene asked what kind of tutorials people are looking for and also just by looking at the wall there’s questions, and sometimes it’s on of those DUH- why didn’t I think of THAT! questions and answers. (Not meaning anything bad by it, I get like that …
I forgot to do the tutorial Tuesday last week, but it kind of works out as I can show my tumbler quilt in EQ7. (Splash that was in McCall’s) You start a new quilt and make it ONE PATCH it may default as hexagons, but just change that in the layout tab you pull down …
Last week you saw the post about my recent KITE quilt in Quiltmaker So I figured I’d show how I designed it in EQ7 The block is actually called hummingbird in EQ and since I had the 4” kite die, I made the block 8” and did a 4×5 layout I then added it and …
I was looking at my old EQ files and don’t think I’ve shown some of my log cabin quilts. This one is a fun rainbow one I designed a long time ago and it’s easy to create in EQ! What makes it COOL –apart from the rainbow colors of course- is that the log cabin …
Today’s post is about the triangle in a square block. If you follow me regularly you’ll know what I’m participating in the RSC16 Challenge and came up with this block and quilt layout using my GO cutter and die. This was my main idea in EQ but you’ll notice that I flipped the triangles in …
EQ7 Tutorial Tuesday–Triangle in a square blocks and quilts Read More »