Friday, January 27, 2012

EQ Rocks! If you know how to use it......

I have been stalling for awhile on one of my quilts, Maverick (for my BIL).  My excuse was that I had to figure out cutting sizes for a churn block.

I saw directions for a  lap size quilt in a magazine that I really liked,,this was about 2 years ago. 



A couple of months ago (before Christmas) I was able to reconstruct the same design on EQ6 as a king size quilt (DH wanted his brother to have a BIG quilt).  But I didn't want to make 7" blocks.  I wanted my blocks to be larger.  I finally decided on 12" blocks..

At various times I thought about how to work the math so I could cut the pieces.  Even got a friend in the quilting group in on it.  She had a program on her iphone that she thought would help, but it didn't.

Today I got to thinking that EQ should have the dimensions of the block somewhere....so I started searching.  Sure enough, under "Double Monkey Wrench",  "Work Block" and " Rotary Cutting", there it was...all I had to do was put in the 12" dimension, and the cutting instructions were there.



To make the Maverick blocks all I had to do was flip the 4 corners of this block.  I have the basics now.

I am going to make a couple of sample blocks to see how they turn out, pick out my fabric and I will be on my way!  Maybe this will be February's goal.. a King size....56 blocks,,,well,, maybe March....

4 comments:

Vesuviusmama said...

You know, I have EQ and never use it because I just haven't quite figured it out yet - all the layers and such. I should give it a try some morning when I am fresh and awake. The problem is probably that I always try to use it at the end of the day, when I have time to quilt, but also when my brain has shut off from the long day!

Rosa said...

I haven´t tried EQ.The quilt looks beautiful.Happy quilting!

Vroomans' Quilts said...

Good for you - I too have EQ and have yet to get into one step of it. I think I need private lessons.

Denise :) said...

Isn't EQ wonderful!! I love how it does the conversion for me if I want to make a block bigger!! :)