I finished this quilt a few weeks ago and I think it’s actually part of a block for an add-on for Electric quilt EQ8 I really don’t remember now I used some leftover black and white fabrics from my Bee collection and also the 8″ QUBE The quilt ended up being 34″ x 34″ and …
Accuquilt has released a new die called the Fractured Tumbler die and it’s FUN!! It has 2 shapes on there, I used just the A shape and designed this fun pink and red quilt! It’s 36″ x 42″ Here’s the EQ sketch with pink and red It would also be fun in rainbow …
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Today you can find the Oct/Nov 2022 issue of Quick and Easy Quilts on the newsstands! Or you can buy the digital version here. My quilt is made using the fall leaf die by Accuquilt and the 8″ QUBE set (plus strip dies) Fabrics are are Adamstown by Jo Morton from Moda Fabrics. (I used …
I’m in Quick and Easy Quilts magazine Oct/ Nov 2022 Read More »
The other day I was playing around in EQ and I was kinda bored, then I had an idea to find a random blocks and design something with it! I counted the sections in 01 classic pieced and found it had 39 categories, so I entered that into random.org and got the number 21, which …
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It’s EQ8 Tutorial Tuesday! Do you ever design “on-point” quilt layouts in EQ? It’s not my favorite style because the border measurements are odd, but I do design on point quilts once in a while, it’s actually easier to “trick the eye” with that kind of a layout. Here is a simple layout with diamond …
Have you ever designed a tumbler quilt in EQ? To design a tumbler quilt, you have to start in the One Patch Layout, by default it starts with a hexagon layout On the left there’s a Patch Style pull down menu and there’s lots to choose from- play around! Tumblers are near the end When …
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 …