EQ Appliqué Drawing
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EQ Appliqué Drawing
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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 time
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 threadwork designs
Pages 248
Size 7×9
Softcover, sewn, black & white
About the Author
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 also 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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“The Pieced Drawing book is great and the Appliqué Drawing book is exceptional. I’ll be recommending both in classes.
The Appliqué book is probably the best EQ book I have used so far because it mentions every little box that will show, every time. Starting from page one, that can be repetitious, but that’s how some of us learn best. Yet, each section is fairly independent if you think you already know what you want to do.”
– Barb Gorges, Cheyenne, WY
“This is one book I’ll finish all the lessons in. The wording is so, that I can understand, not like most computer books. The lessons are enjoyable, even if I can’t draw very well, maybe with practice it will improve. Just had to let you know, I really like EQ, have learned a lot of how to move around to perform the different functions with this book. If I get much better, maybe I will be able to let your readers see one of my quilts.”
– Sandy Shuttleworth
“This fourth companion book from The Electric Quilt Company is targeted at those who want to get the absolute most from this appliqué portion of EQ6 quilt design software. It brims with tips and shortcuts which when applied will truly open up the programme to its full potential. Follow the lessons from cover to cover and the book is a comprehensive, graduated series of lessons. Dip into it but by bit and it serves as a detailed reference of appliqué drawing tips. Following the lessons in this book will help EQ6 owners get more pleasure out of the software and to create a wider breadth of designs with ease.”
-British Patchwork and Quilting, October 2008 issue