What is the EQ6 Block Book?
An illustrated guide to the 4,300 quilt blocks in EQ6.
The EQ6 Block Book helps
you locate blocks in the EQ6 Block Library.
The book is organized exactly
like the on-screen libraries of EQ6 blocks
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For example, you want to find the Fox & Geese block 1. Find the block on page 32 of the Block Book.
2. Open the EQ6 Block Library to 1 Classic Pieced and look at the Four Patch style.
3. Select the block and click Add to Sketchbook to put a copy of the block in your current project.
4. Now you can use it in quilt designs and print patterns for it.
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3 quilts designed with the Fox & Geese block
Also included are directions for using the EQ6 Block Library:
* About
the Block Library
* Searching
for Blocks by Notecard
* Searching
for Blocks by Category
* About
the Block Categories (which has all the info from the back of the notecard
explained)
Price: £13.75 Inc. UK Postage
Secure ordering now available
EQ6 Simplified - Perfect
for the beginning EQ6 user
By Fran Iverson Gonzalez
Attention EQ6 beginners! EQ6 Simplified, the newest and biggest of our best-selling “Simplified” tutorials is ready. Popular EQ teacher and author Fran Iverson Gonzalez holds your hand as you work through step-by-step instructions in eight fun lessons. Its like taking classes right in your own home. Fran has taught thousands of EQ beginners and she’ll teach you too as you design fabulous, yet simple, quilt designs.
Lesson 1: Turn a basic Kaleidoscope quilt into a starry sensation. Learn to modify your existing quilts, colour, and calculate fabric yardage. The basic steps learned in this lesson are the building blocks of EQ software.
New EQ6 feature: Rotate directional fabrics with a mouse click.
Lesson 2: EQ6 has pre-designed quilt designs! Create amazing quilts starting with a quick-quilt project and modifying blocks, fabrics and borders. Work with the new on-point layout style.
New EQ6 feature: Print setting triangles as clipped blocks.
Lesson 3: Begin drawing blocks with EasyDraw™. Fussy cut fabric right on your block while the fabric scales perfectly. Create stunning multiple border designs.
New EQ6 feature: Import fabrics from other EQ project files.
Lesson 4: Lesson 4 is packed! Convert a block into a motif, combine EasyDraw™ and PatchDraw designs, and create quilting stencils. Learn to use the Graph Pad for precise Layer 3 quilting stencil placement.
New EQ6 feature: Turn layers on and off to display individual design layers more clearly.
Lesson 5: Ready for some real fun? Play with the Symmetry and Serendipity tools which make instant changes to your quilt and block designs.
New EQ6 feature: Add pre-designed borders using the Auto Borders tool—there’re so many to choose from!
Lesson 6: More than a quilt top! Design a pieced quilt backing and add a personalized quilt label. Create beautiful flower patterns with the Wreathmaker. Print complex foundation patterns.
New EQ6 feature: Use the Set Appliqué Text tool to personalize a quilt label.
Lesson 7: Make designs move with a series of high impact borders. Create blocks and motifs with the new EQ6 Rectangle and Ellipse PatchDraw tools. Finish off your quilt with a Prairie Points border.
New EQ6 feature: Create a quilt layout from a block design.Lesson 8: Create dazzling appliqué with PatchDraw. Step outside the box, designing abstract quilts. Experiment with advanced fabric rotation.
New EQ6 feature: Use the Brush Stroke tool in PatchDraw.
Fran Iverson Gonzalez is a professional quilt designer and teacher who teaches Electric Quilt classes at QuiltUniversity.com. She is also the creator of the Mystery Quilts on the Electric Quilt Company website. She has taught for 17 of the 30 years she has been quilting, including EQ classes at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas as well as other quilt symposia across the country.
Price: £14.95 Inc.UK Postage
EQ6 Pieced Drawing - Great for Creating One-of-a-Kind Blocks
EQ6 Pieced Drawing allows EQ users to design unique blocks for any quilting need.
Authored by drawing expert Patti Anderson, this book will inspire you to draw blocks
like you have never done before!
Patti Anderson has taught thousands of EQ users how to draw.
Whether you're a beginning or advanced quilt block designer, you'll learn just what you need
from this popular drawing diva. She's back with all new techniques for creating unique block designs in EQ6.
Follow Patti step-by-step through her basic lessons. Then try out what you've learned,
making distinctive block variations using her "Show & Draw" block recipes.
Chapter 1: Learn to draw pieced blocks using Pieced PatchDraw and the special grids. Design quick Kaleidoscopes, Eight-Point Stars, and New York Beauties using a click-and-snap method of drawing!
Chapter 2: Dive into EasyDraw™ learning pieced drawing basics. Learn to set up your drawing board with correct snap settings and graph paper divisions to make workable blocks
Chapter 3: Use your new knowledge of EasyDraw™ to create beautiful Giant Dahlia blocks, Curved Geese, and Prairie Braid Strips. Draw blocks you've always been too afraid to try!
Chapter 4: Step outside the box and design the most unbelievable blocks in minutes! Learn to trace images, transforming them into foundation patterns. Draw 60° grids, then design 3-D and tessellating blocks. Oh, and have you heard of Node Select All? You won't want to miss that lesson!
Patti R. Anderson is a professional quiltmaker, quilt teacher and pattern designer from West Virginia. Along with regular quilt classes,she currently teaches beginner EQ classes
around her home state and intermediate and advanced EQ classes at QuiltUniversity.com
Price: £14.95 Inc.UK Postage
New Software
Quiltmakers Quilting Motifs Volume 1 is now available on CD produced by The Electric Quilt Company
What is included with Quiltmaker Volume 1?
This CD features a beautiful variety of over 550 of the most popular quilting designs and variations from past issues of Quiltmaker, selected for you by the magazine's staff.
For more creative fun, print various designs, then combine and repeat them on your quilts, resulting in your own innovative quilting patterns. Helpful design instructions on positioning motifs are included.
Using the designs on this CD is a snap. Browse through the collection, find the design you want, then specify the size - any size at all. Then print. Easily custom-size these designs to precisely fit borders, blocks, and sashes for every quilt you make.
Categories include:
* Abstract Look
* Animals
* Celtic & Woven
* Charm Tacks
* Feathers
* Flowers
* Food
* Hawaiian Look
* Holiday
* Leaves
* Southwestern Look
* Stars & Sky
* Swirls & WavesLearn to use your printouts for tracing, pouncing and other quilt marking methods.
No other software is needed. EQ6 Compatible - link to EQ6, use on your quilt designs. Or modify in EQ6. Download an EQ6 project with 10 free quilting stencils from this new CD.
Price: £16.75 - Inc. UK Postage
This CD features a beautiful
variety of over 560 of the most popular quilting designs and variations
from past issues of Quiltmaker,
selected for you by the magazine's staff.
For more creative fun, print
various designs, then combine and repeat them on your quilts,
resulting in your own innovative
quilting patterns. Helpful design instructions on positioning motifs are
included.
Using the designs on this
CD is a snap. Browse through the collection, find the design you want,
then specify the size -
any size at all. Then print.
Easily custom-size these
designs to precisely fit borders, blocks, and sashes for every quilt you
make.
Categories include:
Permission to use the designs
is granted for personal and professional purposes, as well as permission
to digitize the
designs for use in a computerized
quilting system.
Digitizing these designs
for sale and mass production of these designs is prohibited.
Price: £16.75 - Inc. UK Postage
Quiltmaker's Quilting Motifs
Volume 3 book is now available on CD
What is included with Quiltmaker
Volume 3?
This CD features a beautiful
variety of over 700 of the most popular quilting designs and variations
f
rom past issues of Quiltmaker,
selected for you by the magazine's staff.
For more creative fun,
print various designs, then combine and repeat them on your quilts, r
esulting in your own innovative
quilting patterns. Helpful design instructions on positioning motifs are
included.
Using the designs on this
CD is a snap. Browse through the collection, find the design you want,
then specify the size -
any size at all. Then print. Easily custom-size these designs to precisely
fit borders,
blocks, and sashes for
every quilt you make.
NEW! 10 Quilting Videos
Videos show how to use your printouts for tracing, pouncing and other quilt
marking methods.
Categories include:
No other software is needed.
EQ6 Compatible - link to EQ6, use on your quilt designs.
Or modify in EQ6. Download
an EQ6 project with 10 free quilting stencils from this new CD.
Permission to use the designs
is granted for personal and professional purposes,
as well as permission to digitize
the
designs for use in a computerized quilting system.
Digitizing these designs
for sale and mass production of these designs is prohibited.
Price: £16.75 - Inc. UK Postage
