This week in pattern writing I want to show how to do templates. Templates were one of the last things I tackled when I tried to write patterns. Again you’ll need EQ, MS Word and CutePDFwriter Here’s a quilt I designed for McCall’s when I was pregnant with Sonja (need to write it into a …
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Today I’m showing how to write a pattern for a bit I have made a kaleidoscope quilt and I will just show one of the blocks as the other block is similar but more complicated. If you select the kaleidoscope block and print the foundation pattern (or preview it) You’ll see this Here it looks …
I have been asked several times if EQ can help you write a pattern!? Of course it can!! it doesn’t do it for you, but it helps a LOT! Here’s how I often do it. I start with a simple layout (or whatever you want the quilt to look like, just for this I’m doing …
So Last time I did a flying geese tutorial using the patch draw arc grid. It’s really a fun grid so I figured I’d do some more. Again start off with a new patchdraw block and do ARC and 8 rings x 8 spokes select the polyarc pen on the left then pick a ring …
This week’s tutorial is inspired by page 168 in the EQ7 Manual. Patch drawing is something I rarely do, but it gets great results! I’ve been part of a geese in a ring block swap once and always wanted to draw one myself so I can make the block any size I want. It finally …
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Angela at Soscrappy/supearscrappy has posted another “rainbow” scrap challenge for 2016 I had all intentions of joining this year, but never even GOT started! I realized my problem was inspiration! I’m determined to join in 2016 and figured I needed to have a back up plan of lots of scrappy quilts in rainbow colors. So …
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When I was washing baby clothes, I found a few plain white onesies and then got the idea of embroidering something on one of them. Like our church’s (Calvary Chapel) Dove. So I found the file online and saved it. In EQ Stitch you have to “work on stitching” and then click the trace image …
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This week I figured I’d show my “thinking” behind the Planned Round Robin I’ve now hosted twice and where we just had a GREAT finish this month. First you start of with a horizontal layout and only 1 x 1 block and in this one the block is 12” x 12” Now it’s all about …
Today’s tutorial is going to highlight the GRID tool. It’s a handy tool but I think often neglected. When you work on a block it’s on the left side at the bottom of the row. Start off with a 9 x 9 block and no graph paper. click the little red square on the grid …
Recently I checked out the quilt book section at my local library and found several “new” ones that I hadn’t seen before. One was a book about String quilts! Have you ever done string quilts? I’ve done a few and they are quite fun! –either do the strips “planned” with the same width or colors, …