This week’s tutorial is about a fun and actually simple block The Kaleidoscope block! Here is a layout where I colored every other block and had the X inside dark and the background light, you do this by holding down ALT and with a new fabric selected you click the 2nd block and it …
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I’m running out of ideas for tutorials but the EQ FB group is great for inspiration as someone asked a question about blocks designed in one file, how to copy it over to another file or another place, so I’m going to show you the way I do it by importing blocks into another file. …
I saw a question somewhere a while ago (probably the FB EQ group) about if you design a quarter of a block, is there a way to quickly make the other 3 quarters so you have a full block and I had to play a little to find out but it’s very easy! First I …
I’ve been doing these tutorials for so long that sometimes it’s hard to come up with ideas, sometimes I get inspired, sometimes it’s because someone emailed me and asked about something, this time it’s from the EQ Facebook group, a question was asked about how to add blocks to the sashing, and I don’t know …
Are you fascinated with mini blocks? They are SO cute and some make great mini quilts or pincushions! I don’t know if it’s much of a tutorial but just ideas for minis First let’s look around in EQ a bit for some fun blocks, my first place to look is under foundation blocks under crazy …
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Have you ever wanted to make a fun sampler with different sized blocks but still keeping it symmetrical and simple!? It’s EASY and fast! First you have to have a plan about what size you want the blocks and my layout has a large block then 4 blocks together that are the same size alternating …
EQ8 Tutorial Tuesday, Quilt from Block–sampler quilt Read More »
It’s time for another tutorial, and I couldn’t think of anything until I thought about the log cabin quilt I made with Island Batik recently for their monthly challenge! Log cabins are SO much fun and it was super easy with the Accuquilt log cabin die too! Here’s my initial sketch in EQ for this …
Have you ever started a project in EQ and noticed the “start with a quick quilt project” option? Have you clicked on it to see what’s there? There’s 11 options But each option has lots of different quilts in it too! under “Easy quilts” There’s a simple layout with ohio star blocks then a quilt …
I had a recent request about adding 60 degree triangles around a panel, I’m sure what she is looking for but it’s a great idea to play with panels and border blocks! So here’s what I came up with In EQ8 under libraries/ Blocks there’s section 09 that’s called border blocks, under single blocks there’s …
If you’re like me, addicted to fabrics and love playing with them in EQ, then you might have tried the digital fabric stash sets from Electric quilt? Or you could find new fabrics from whatever fabric company and often have to sit and download each individual fabric into EQ or maybe if you’re lucky a …