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FREE EQ6 LESSON - NEW WAY TO DRAW NEW YORK BEAUTIES
Try our EQ6 lesson
on drawing arcs with PatchDraw. You'll love this new way of drawing pieced blocks because it's so easy. The arcs are all marked out for you, so you just connect the dots.
 FREE QUILTING DESIGNS FROM OUR NEW CD
Download a free EQ6 project containing
10 quilting designs from our newest and SECOND Quilting Designs CD (EQ6 project file). See
info about this just-released Volume 2 stand-alone CD we've done with Quiltmaker magazine. Volume 2 will be available for order August 1.
Collect them all! Volumes 3, 4 & 5 coming later in 2007.
DOWNLOAD MORE FREE FABRIC
This month's download is "I need Taupes!". Choose either to download a Library file or a Project file. Follow the easy steps provided. Then vote for next month's fabric while you're there.
CLUB EQ AND ROUND ROBINS
Looking for inspiration? See what others create with EQ. Check out the monthly clubEQ challenge page, this month featuring Inspired Color Schemes, and the recent Round
Robins.
FREE VIEWERS FOR YOUR EQ PROJECTS
Download EQ6 Show, read how to set it up, then sit back and enjoy a slide show of your own EQ-designed quilts (from any EQ version). Works only if you have EQ6 installed.
EQ5 owners can download EQ5 Show and do the same to show projects made in EQ5 and EQ4.
TIP FOR USING EQ6 SHOW
Long-time EQer Eileen Hoheisel has a great use for EQ6 Show --- she uses it to show photos of her quilts!
"I
open a new project, name it "my photos," import photos of quilts I have made, and add them to my sketchbook."
Then
she makes a custom set quilt for each quilt photo, setting the quilt photo
large on each layout, continuing until she has all her quilt photos set into
separate
quilt layouts.
"Now
if I want to show someone pictures of quilts I have made, I can just do an EQ6
show. This is a lot easier than doing it with my photo programs."
Great minds think alike. Sheila Williams used this same idea for one of her
clients:
" A client needed a rush slide presentation from some pictures
we took. My new Vista Laptop does not have MS PowerPoint 2007 yet. But it does
have EQ6 and EQ6 Show. So I used these two programs to create the presentation.
My Client loved the presentation and now wants me to teach him and his staff
how to use 'that slide show program'."
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MYSTERY QUILT STORY AND LESSONS
Read Episode
6, in which Mitzi poses as an apartment dweller in need of pest control, in order to investigate Donnie Delgado, the fifth of eleven suspects on the Trade Winds Museum Board. Then
do Lesson 6, in which you draw a Squared Chain and Nine-Patch block. Learn to use EQ5 or EQ6 as you solve the mystery and see
your final quilt after the 12th episode.
(If you are just joining us, start here with Episode
1 and Lesson
1.)
FREE EXCERPT FROM EQ6 SIMPLIFIED BOOK
Download a free lesson from our newest book, EQ6 Simplified by Fran Iverson Gonzalez. Fran helps you create Kaleidoscope quilts in EQ6 in the first lesson of her book. Here's a chance to try Fran's book before you buy. Download
the PDF and work through the lesson (PDF file).
WANT TO START AN EQ CLUB?
Download our "Planning an EQ Club" PDF file (PDF file). See what you need
to get started, how to organize, and get topic ideas. The Mystery Quilt would
make a great club project.
FREE DESKTOP CALENDAR
Download a free monthly calendar from Carolyn Laukkonen for your computer desktop. Find complete instructions on her site.
EQ CLASSES
See the hands-on classes EQ Company is sponsoring during International
Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas, beginning October 29, 2007. Also, Barb Gardner will give a lecture/demo in Houston on October 29, 6-9 PM. She brings a trunk show to demonstrate what it's like to go from EQ design to quilt.
See who else is teaching, and where.
FREE EQ6 WEB BUTTONS
Show your EQ spirit by adding an EQ6
button to your web site!
COMING NEXT MONTH
• Don't miss our interview with designer Angie Padilla, and get a free project from her upcoming new CD "My Dream House." |
