EQ8 Lessons for Beginners
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EQ8 Lessons for Beginners
Item #: B-8LESSON
ISBN #: 978-1-893824-92-8
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 templates, rotary cutting charts, and foundation paper piecing 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 color book has a convenient spiral binding that allows pages to rotate 360 degrees and lie flat.
Details
Details
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″
Softcover, spiral binding, full-color content
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.
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 EasyDraw blocks
- Create an applique motif
- Use the PosieMaker 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
Chapter 2-4 offer 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 color
- Insight on rotary cutting charts in EQ
Which Book to Buy
Which Book to Buy
Which book should I buy?
The EQ8 Lessons for Beginners is the best book for going step-by-step through lessons to learn the ins and outs of the program. The first chapter covers all 3 worktables, and Chapters 2 and 3 get more into different features of the quilt designing and block drawing. Chapter 4 is full of some fun, popular topics in EQ. The book is 128 pages, so it's easy to go through, and a great way to get started.
The EQ8 Designing Quilts book will teach you to design with the most popular tools and features in EQ8 software! 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. Learn tips on designing circular quilts, hexagon quilts, t-shirt quilts, custom quilts, and more! It is recommended that you work through the EQ8 Lessons for Beginners book before moving onto this book.
The EQ8 Deep Dive: Fabrics, Panels, and Photos booklet contains everything you need to know for importing your own fabrics and photos into EQ8 software. Whether you want to create a t-shirt quilt, a panel quilt, or any quilt that uses your choice of fabrics, this booklet is for you! Bonus videos are included with purchase!
Translations
Translations
EQ8 Lessons for Beginners Translations
Spanish Translation Available
Lessons for Beginners in Spanish, or "Lecciones para Principiantes", was translated by Marga Jackson, but it was completed thanks to the collaboration of her namesake Margarita Gutierrez, the person who prompted her to translate the book.
Marga has tried to keep the soul of the design of the original edition, whilst constantly having to create more room for the extra lengthy Spanish words! She has also kept the English words that were necessary to keep the flow of work in English, and added a small booklet, included with the book, that contains the translation and some more information about those words or phrases, plus she signs all of the books with a "Thank you" note.
You can buy the book directly at https://buttonpic.es/ or contact Marga at her email: cisesjs@gmail.com; phone +34633110325; or Facebook at "El club de Buttonpic" group.
Dutch Translation Available
Heleen Pinkster provides workshops, demos and free projects for both EQ7 and EQ8. To order the EQ8 Lessons for Beginners book in Dutch, please contact her directly at Heleen Pinkster Quilt Design.
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The book easily guided me through how to design my own blocks and applique motifs, showing me how to use several of the different tools as I worked through. I also learned that I could edit any of the many blocks featured in the EQ8 block library to personalise them.
It’s handy that the screenshots have zoomed in bits showing you exactly where to click and what to type or select. This makes the lessons in the book fool proof to follow. Having the book is not only a useful guide but it shows you things you wouldn’t realise you can do with the software so I think it’s definitely worth purchasing alongside EQ8.
I can also see it would be handy if I don’t use the software for a while and need a refresher on how to do things. Plus I liked the fact it’s spiral bound so it easily lies open on the page you want next to your computer.
This is my first foray into electronic design and I am working through Section 1, Learning the EQ8 Basics. The illustrations accompanying the text are excellent. Directions go through each step to accomplish a task. The ease of accomplishing basic quilt layout and trialing different color schemes in a quilt is just a few minutes away instead of the hours spent manually drawing a design, copying the design and coloring it multiple ways. What a time saver for design! Drawing and modifying simple pieced blocks was easy. The concept of a personal block favorites location is brilliant with the huge number of pieced blocks available to us. There are a few things I didn’t quite understand from going through 50 pages of lessons but that’s only about a third of the book.
I have had EQ for several upgrades but still found this book helpful as a review and needed with the new format with EQ8. I would have stayed with EQ7 using it for only the blocks in the program but wanted to go beyond that and the more I learned working my way through all of the books the more I realized what EQ8 could do for me. If you want to design your own quilts EQ8 is the way to go.
I really love the Lessons for Beginners workbook for EQ8. There were a significant number of upgrades between EQ7 and EQ8 and I found that I needed some assistance in learning the new platform. I particularly love the changes made to the Custom Quilt Layout. The ability to design with multiple shaped blocks is just what I needed!
I recently purchased the “EQ8 Lessons for Beginners” workbook which has greatly improved my learning curve. I was able to input a quilt design from a magazine which contained several different block sizes, scan in my fabric choices and have a visual of my project within an hour. This gave me the assurance that the quilt would turn out as I had envisioned it to be, and I am confident that I will be able to create my own designs as easily in the future.
I highly recommend EQ8 and “Lessons for Beginners.” Great products!