Some people don’t know that EQ has SO many Foundation Paper Piecing patterns in the library and you can easily edit them and the update with EQ8 vs EQ7 is that the foundation pattern prints in color now! Let’s start I have this quilt as a pattern in my shop called Starlight Starbright, I also …
Quilters often LOVE or hate Flying geese blocks! I don’t know why, maybe because it’s all triangles? a quarter square triangle and 2 half square triangles? that’s a lot of bias edges and easy to stretch or skew when sewing together?! I think Flying geese are fun and use them a lot, of course I …
I often get asked about what design program I use and if it’s “worth it” and the answer is always, YES get EQ8 you won’t regret it, it’s awesome and you can do so many things with it. First of all it has LOTS of blocks already in the library and there’s different categories too …
It’s time for another fun blog hop with “virtual fabrics” Tammy at Tamarinis has designed a new fabric line called “Just by type” and it’s a fun fabric line. These will soon be available in stores! Part of this blog hop was to import these fabrics in EQ (or other design program) and show different …
It’s election day! GO OUT AND VOTE!! I voted early but my husband wants to vote on THE day, so he’ll vote today! I figured I’d show a little tutorial on this VOTE table runner I just designed. Under Block library find section 03 which is foundation pieced There’s 4 different alphabet sections, I chose …
Have you tried the Dear Jane EQ add-on from Electric quilt yet? If you haven’t, get it now and enter EQBEAQUILTER as a coupon code and it gives you 20% off your order! EQ8 is required! So I’ve had a bit of time to look around at the Dear Jane blocks, so many cool ones! …
It’s official! I’m a homeschool mom now!! After being so disappointed with the school system and school board, I just HAD to do it. I took a while to research curriculums and different friends recommended Sonlight! it’s heavy on books, Sonja likes to read and we were both tired on Zoom meetings, so less on …
I’m trying to get back into my Tutorial Tuesday posts, where I post an EQ tutorial every other Tuesday! I’d like to do more videos but we’re still waiting on fiber optic internet so for now I’ll do screenshots, which is actually tricky in wordpress, just takes a bit longer. I often see this question …
EQ8 Tutorial Tuesday- how to write a quilt pattern with EQ and MS word! Read More »
Have you heard of a Dear Jane Quilt? You can read about it here It’s a very interesting read. It’s a very lovely sampler quilt and looks at those borders!! WOW! The Jane A. Stickle quilt is now available for EQ software! Inspired by Brenda Manges Papadakis’ book Dear Jane: The Two Hundred Twenty-Five Patterns …
A while ago I was playing in EQ8 and thought about some new yardage I had and that I hadn’t used the storm at sea die since it was released by Accuquilt (I designed and made the grey and pink quilt they show with the die- might be the cover pattern too, can’t remember) So …