EQ6 frustration resolved! Mostly…

In our last episode, I was tearing my hair out trying to draw a scalloped border for the unnamed quilt. This exercise really illustrates how math-challenged I am, because this is obviously a math test.
I dug around in my bookcase and came up with Patti Anderson’s EQ5 Drawing book. Guess what? It has a chapter [...]

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EQ6 frustration

I should emphasize here that my frustration is with myself, in the fact that I have ZERO artistic vision and can’t seem to draw something in EQ6 that I can see with my own eyes. Heaven help me if I ever thought I could draw something original.
Here’s my problem:
The unnamed quilt definitely needs a border. [...]

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Help me with my next project

I was gifted with a bundle of 30’s fat quarters a few years ago and they have sat in my stash while I agonized over how to use them. (I agonize over everything, it’s a wonder I get anything started or completed.)
I finally decided that this process could last until the end of days so [...]

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Quilting Adventures New Year’s Day haul

I went to Quilting Adventures today for their New Year’s extravaganza and look what I came home with:

I installed the software as soon as I got home and am ready to play, play, play with these Electric Quilt add-ons.
I’ve been wanting Kaleidoscope Kreator for several years and finally just decided to go for it. Holy [...]

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Cyberbees badge

You may have seen this before, I posted this to the Cyberbees list several years ago, but I thought I’d resurrect it so that you can be ready with your ID badge for the next retreat. (Is there a retreat planned? I don’t remember)
 

 
Finished size: 4.25″ x 3.5″
Each square of the checkerboard is 1.25″ unfinished, [...]

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Create Custom Colors in Electric Quilt

When you sit down with EQ to design a new quilt, how do you color it? Do you always use fabric swatches? Do you ever use solid colors? For either choice, do you pick colors randomly or do you have a color palette in mind?
I’m imagining that your answers might skew more to fabric swatches [...]

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Freehand drawing in EQ6

I went to Quilting Adventures yesterday intending to buy one of the five Electric Quilt’s “Quiltmaker Quilting Designs” software packages, but they aren’t carrying any of them at the moment. So instead, I bought Angie Padilla’s “EQ6 Applique Drawing.” Am I glad I did. Besides all of the wonderful tips and insight Angie has about [...]

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“I can’t visualize something unless I see it first”

I read that line in a detective novel of all places, but it describes me to a “T” (and where does that saying come from, I wonder?). I must have some kind of cerebral short circuit that doesn’t allow me to imagine what something could look like without seeing it. That’s why I’ll never be [...]

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