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, …
I’ve been really inspired by Turid’s Hexagon project that’s from Grit’s blog called LA PASSION I’m going to show the start/ middle of this and then how it can turn into something else in EQ once you start playing with hexagons. Start with a ONE patch layout of hexagons (H) and do it 31 x …
It’s time to kick off the ROW A LONG with EQ7. At first I was going to do a REAL row, but time got the better of me and I had to step back and instead just do filler rows, where I didn’t have to sew anything. Thanks to Marian for organizing this! Designing filler …
I was looking at my old projects and found an OLD but good one, I think it was because I had made a quilt for my husband years ago and we used it for a picnic the other day outside on the lawn. It’s Tessellating leaves! it’s actually easy to design! First start with 9” …
This week I wanted to show some tumbler quilts in EQ7 inspired by the tumbler dies from accuquilt You can create a tumbler quilt in EQ under ONE patch and pull down the menu and select tumbler. I chose both height and width to be 6” like the large tumbler die. and an 8 x …
I recently had a request on how to create BASIC blocks in EQ, maybe even some that aren’t in the EQ library. It’s “hard” to think about that, as the library has SO many blocks, but here’s a little bit 🙂 Start by going to the “Work on block” section and create an Easy draw …
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This time I want to show a fun “Illusion” quilt with just two blocks. a “garden patch” block and a snowball block First search for a block using “garden” and you’ll find these. and pick the second one highlighted. then search for snowball and find the 9 patch snowball here Then let a layout to …
This week’s tutorial is more of a block inspiration post. As you can tell, I’ve had a “thing” for sunbonnet sue lately, so here’s some layouts I’ve made. First, if you search for Sunbonnet under the block search you’ll see these the ones with a stippled/dashed line around them are actually MOTIFS (applique) so the …
An online friend was asking me about EQ7 and the friendship star and modifying it and I said YES to all her questions, so Terry; this is for you! First find the star block under Libraries/ Block library I just search for FRIEND and these came up add the first one to the sketchbook Now …
I was stumped as to what to show this week, but then I was looking at recent quilts and published quilts and I figured I’d show the Monkey wrench quilt that was published in Fons and Porter recently Once I downloaded the fabrics in EQ it was easy to design. I found the monkey wrench …