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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

  • 1 Classic Pieced
  • 2 Contemporary Pieced
  • 3 Foundation Pieced
  • 4 Classic Appliqué
  • 5 Contemporary Appliqué
  • 6 Motifs
  • 7 Quilting Stencils
  • 8 Overlaid Blocks
  • 9 Border Blocks
Page 32 of Block Book
 
EQ6 Block Library
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.

Quilt 1

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: £14.00 Inc. UK Postage

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EQ6 Simplified Book

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: £15.20 Inc. UK Postage

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EQ6 Pieced Drawing
 

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

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Just Arrived !!

EQ6 Applique Drawing
EQ6 Appliqué Drawing

Learn to draw appliqué from a pro! Angie Padilla, creator of the My Dream House add-on for EQ5 and EQ6,
teaches you from the beginning how to draw and edit appliqué patches to create spectacular blocks


Chapter 1: Back to the Basics - in this chapter you'll learn how to:
• select and delete patches

• copy, paste and move patches around

• clone patches 

• flip patches

• resize patches many different ways

• rotate patches many different ways

• mix patches from different blocks


 
 
Chapter 2: Drawing Simple Lines and Curves - in this chapter you'll begin to customize your workspace and learn how to:
• Draw and edit lines

• Work with snapping options

• Draw straight lines

• Use guides

• Draw curves

• Draw curves and lines without changing tools

• Use building blocks as guides to develop a more realistic drawing

• Draw freehand and trace for the first tim


 
 
Chapter 3: Drawing Two Lines at Once - start using the new EQ6 Brush Stroke tool and learn how to:
• Change the brush stroke style, ends, taper, and thickness

• Draw vines and leaves with the Brush Stroke tool

• Use symmetry to create folk-art designs

• How to use the Precision Bar for brush strokes

• Import blocks from other projects


 
Chapter 4: Drawing with Pre-Defined Shapes - in this chapter you'll learn how to:
• Use pre-defined shapes to make quick patches

• Use the Precision Bar to do things faster

• Use the Precision Bar to round rectangles and split circles into wedges

• Make a wreath


 
 
Chapter 5: Putting it All Together - use everything you've learned so far to make more complex blocks. You learn how to:
• Import photos to trace

• Trace photos

• How to draw thread lines

• Make complex wreaths, folk-art crossing designs, 
and Hawaiian appliqué

• Flip and rotate open patches and snap them 
together to make a complex symmetrical closed patch

• Edit a focus block and create setting triangles, borders, sash blocks, and cornerstones to match


 
 
Chapter 6: Tips and Tricks - follow these quick lessons that show you how to:
 • Change from square to rectangular blocks

• Turn blocks with a background into motifs that can   float on layer 2

• Make overlaid blocks

• Use the wreath feature to make feathered quilting stencils

• Draw complex thread work designs


 
Angie Padilla was born in the USA and raised in Quito, Ecuador. A self-taught quilter,
Angie's initial interest in sewing actually lay in garment making. Quilting slowly started to
take over and eventually evolved into a passion. 
Angie's parallel love of computers and Internet technology naturally led to the creation of a website which continued to grow over the years 
and which today showcases her quilt patterns: www.ajpadilla.com
Angie created the My Dream House CD, won the EQ Anniversary contest,
and placed second in the Single Maker category for the Do You EQ? Contest.

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Software
Quiltmaker - Vol 1 - Cover


Quiltmakers Quilting Motifs Volume 1 is now available on CD produced by The Electric Quilt Company

Stencil 1

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 & Waves

Learn 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: £16.95 - Inc. UK Postage & VAT

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Quiltmaker  - Quilting Designs
Volume 2 - Software
Quiltmaker Quilting Designs Volume 2
What is included with Quiltmaker Volume 2?

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:


Learn 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 (NB - From EQ’s web site) 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: £16.95 - Inc. UK Postage & VAT
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Quiltmaker Quilting Designs Vol.3

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
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.

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: £16.95 - Inc. UK Postage & VAT
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Quiltmaker Stencil CD No.4
What is included with Quiltmaker Volume 4?

This CD features a beautiful variety of over 650 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.

Includes 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

Digitizing these designs for sale and mass production of these designs is prohibited.
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QMCD5 Cover
What is included with Quiltmaker Volume 5?

This CD features a beautiful variety of 840 of the most popular quilting designs and variations from past issues of Quiltmaker,
selected for you by the magazine's staff. That's less than 2p a pattern!
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.

Includes 10 Quilting Videos Videos show how to use your printouts for tracing,
pouncing and other quilt marking methods.
QM5 Video
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.
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Price: £17.95 Inc. UK Postage & VAT

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Quiltmaker Designs - Vol 6 Box
What is included with Quiltmaker Volume 6?

Over 375 CONTINUOUS LINE STENCILS -- plus 200 more!
This CD features the most continuous line drawings of any volume yet.
Over 575 of the most popular quilting designs and variations from past issues of Quiltmaker,
selected for you by the magazine's staff. That's about 3p per pattern !

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. T
hen print. Easily custom-size these designs to precisely fit borders, blocks, and sashes for every quilt you make.

Includes 10 Quilting Videos Videos show how 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.

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.

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Quilting Designs Volume 7
What is included with Quiltmaker Collection Volume 7?

This volume includes over 520 amazing quilting designs to print at any size.
Volume 7 is over 80% continuous line with hundreds of continuous blocks and borders.

This CD is so packed with beaufiul quilting designs, EQ's VP, Penny, says: "I love this CD! This is a VERY SPECIAL group of stencils -- by far my favorite CD of the series.
It's worth it just for the overall designs,t he best I've seen.
Love the holiday ivy and berries, and all the intertwining florals. Then add up the hundreds of continuous line designs for borders, blocks and corners.
These are designs you'll really use again and again. I don't rave much about quilting stencils, but I LOVED these!"

Categories include: Abstracts, Allover Designs, Critters, Feathers, Flowers, Hearts, Holiday, Leaves, and Stars & Sky.

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.

Includes 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.

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Price: £17.95 Inc. UK Postage & VAT



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