I have made another video (still getting the hang of recording and editing, so bear with me) Here’s the video I did a tutorial about the Quick quilt option in EQ8 and then chose the storm at sea quilts and recolored some and changed block sizes, added borders, used the magic wand and more Have …
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I finally got around to trying to make another EQ8 Tutorial video and post it on youtube. Usually I borrow my son’s gaming headset but recently it broke and we ordered him a new one, then when I placed the order, I ordered 2 instead so I could have my own. Uploading videos usually takes …
I finally got Open Live writer working again so now I can do screenshots and modify them etc and do easy blog posts! Have you ever looked at polydraw blocks?? Let’s take a look When you want to create a new block, most often you would make an EasyDraw block or maybe an applique? Have …
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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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 …