Electric quilt 8 tutorials how to#

You might want to pay attention to how the pieces look where they connect. Now she has a halo and a head and the body and wings still need shaped. I used the dotted lines to drag the lines down to create the wings shapes. Here you can see the black box where you can click on it to move the lines on each side of the head to shape the head. I tried the circle but the teardrop has a better shape to change to make it look more like a head. Then I used the teardrop shape for the head. Here I used the leaf shape to start my wings for the angel Just use the dotted lines and move them any direction. Here I wanted to show you how you can twist this in any way you want to. Click on that box to move that end of the line and then you can also shorten the dotted line and or move up and down with it to change and shape your line. It makes it a bit easier to move and shape the lines.Įach dotted line has a small box on the end. In EQ7 you will have more black boxes in the middle of the lines too. You will see a dotted line coming out from each box. Just click on a line and you will see two black boxes appear at the ends of that line. This tool allows you to move a line any way you want. As you play with it you will get a feel for how big or how little you want it to start.Īfter you have your shape find the Bezier Tool

On the worktable left click and hold it down and pull the shape across the worktable. Click on the little black arrow beside the bottom box where you will see a shape. In EQ5 you will see your tools in your right side tool bar. I had trouble getting mine to pop out so just play with clicking and I tried holding down the left click and dragging it out. I think the swath and brush stroke buttons are fun to play with.Ĭlick on the shapes to be able to pop out the shape bars. If you don't see all of the tools then click on any tool and this menu will pop up. Here you can see the Patchdraw tools in your left tool bar in EQ7. In EQ7 go to the bottom of your block and click on Applique to get your Patchdraw tools to pop up on your left tool bar In EQ5 you will see the Patchdraw tools in the tool bar on the right side of your screen Then click on patchdraw in the menu that pops up.

Electric quilt 8 tutorials how to#

Here is an Angel I made with the tools and I am going to show you how to do this yourself.įind Block in the top tool bar and click on it This is a great place to play and explore your creativity! It isn't piecing but it is exciting to see what comes out of playing with the tools. If you are going to do applique you can print off templates to use to transform them into applique pieces. They could be used to trace off for quilting designs or you can applique a quilt block with them or you can use them as motifs. This is a group of tools that allow you to create some applique or stencil designs.

This week we are going to look at PatchDraw.