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**EQ8 Lessons for Beginners**
	EQ8 Lessons for Beginners Step-by-Step Exercises for Learning EQ8 Software This step-by-step lesson book is the best starter book for learning EQ8 software. The lessons are easy to follow and cover the basics of each of the three main worktables of EQ8. You will design quilts, draw blocks, import fabric scans, print patterns and calculate yardage estimates. Even if you've owned earlier versions of EQ, this book will introduce new features, while refreshing and energizing your approach to quilt design. This 128 page fully illustrated colour book has a convenient spiral binding that allows pages to rotate 360 degrees and lay flat
Step-by-Step Exercises for Learning EQ8 Software Filled with illustrations, you'll have no trouble following the steps of this lesson book. Pages: 128 Size: 8½" x 11" Soft cover, spiral binding, full-colour content PRICE: £24.95 inc. UK Postage

Chapter 1

Chapter 1 gives an in-depth look at each worktable.

Learn how to name projects and see the contents of your Project Sketchbook.

Learn to use the Home screen and how to find help

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On the Quilt Worktable

Select quilt layouts

Make changes to a layout

Add, remove and resize borders

Set blocks and fabrics into the layout

Use the quilt tools and speed keys

Print quilts, yardage, foundations and templates

On the Block Worktable

Learn the rules of EasyDraw for drawing pieced blocks

Draw new Easy Draw blocks

Create an applique motif

Use the Posie Maker tool

Create a custom library of blocks

Edit blocks from the library or sketchbook

On the Image Worktable

Import photos and fabric scans

Straighten and crop fabric scans

Apply the correct scale to fabric

Fussy cut fabric into position within a patch

Build a custom fabric library

Chapters 2 - 4
16 short and easy lessons that are just what you need to take you beyond the basics.
In this information packed section you'll find topics like:

Understanding layers in EQ

Creating a custom quilt from a block drawing

Using pre designed quick quilts

Creating blocks with Serendipity

Drawing blocks with the eight point star grid

Searching for blocks by category

Searching for fabrics by colour

Insight on rotary cutting charts in EQ

PRICE: £24.95 inc. UK Postage

**EQ8 Designing Quilts**
	Quilt Design Tricks from EQ8 Experts Back by popular demand! This customer-favourite lesson book has been re-released! If you own this book from the first release, you do not need to repurchase. This book will teach you to design with the most popular tools and features in EQ8 software! Learn EQ8 quilt-design secrets directly from EQ experts. Each step-by-step lesson is like taking a class in your home. Perfect for EQ8 users at any learning stage—beginning, intermediate, or advanced. Increase your knowledge of the tools and features, discover new tricks to help make your creativity a reality, and then use all of this information as inspiration to plan and design your own amazing quilts! .
Filled with illustrations, you'll have no trouble following the steps of this lesson book. Pages: 136 Size: 8½" x 11" Soft cover, spiral binding, full-colour content Written for EQ8 Windows and Mac users. PRICE: £24.95 inc. UK Postage

**EQ8 Designing More Quilts**
	More Quilt Design Tricks from EQ8 Experts Each of the 8 chapters is a stand-alone lesson, in that you can work through the chapters in any order you want. Follow the author's instructions to create eight extraordinary quilts. You will be drawing blocks based on photos, designing a quilt with digital fabric panels, using a mathematical formula and special layouts to create amazing optical illusions, and so much more! Use the knowledge from the techniques you learn and make each quilt your own. After going through these lessons, you’ll feel like a quilt-designing genius!
This 136-page fully illustrated book has a convenient spiral binding that allows pages to rotate 360 degrees and lie flat. Written for EQ8 Windows and Mac users. PRICE: £24.95 inc. UK Postage

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Updated on 5th May 2024 by The Man From Rio