EQ Tutorial Tuesday

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 a section that looks like this, the red ones are single repeats, the orange are double repeats, next is yellow and it keeps going from 1-6 and there’s another 7-12 section.

I added all triangle in a square blocks and the matching repeats to the sketchbook

Now to play with panels, the first fabric section I came to in the new 2018 fabric downloads #2 was this collection called Jolly Santa by Andover, I can tell the first fabric is a panel

So I added all these to the sketchbook, now it’s time to find out how big the panel is!

I added it to the quilt layout which has 9” blocks by default and look it tiled twice, so I’m guessing it’s 4” tiles!

here they are set to 4” – perfect!

Now Let’s try 2” sashing

When it’s 2” wide the block would be 2” x 4” so the blocks we imported would work with the 2x repeat (the orange)

Here I rotated every other one

Then color them

instead of clicking the spray can, I chose the SWAP fabrics and picked a fabric then at least it’s only 2 clicks!

here’s the result

or like this with the spray can

or this with the paint brush

Now if you want the sashing to be 1” the math would be better with the 4 triangle blocks (green)

looks like this with fabrics

Here I added 2 drop diamonds and did the sashing 4” just like the blocks

here it’s colored

and with blue in the cornerstones

It’s fun to play with border blocks, not JUST in the borders but as sashing blocks too

Hope you like it!