Carole, Your kona solids will make a beautiful quilt. Not sure if I am going to join in on this project
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Gayle, Love your bird version of the magic garden. Your stitching looks great. the beads on the edge
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I finished my magic garden. This was not my usual colour palette and I am not fond of gnomes so I took creative license...
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Just lovely! I like your flowers too. They fill up the background nicely.
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Beatuiful choices of colors. Fun and whimsical. Nicely done!
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Really fun embroidery choices. It looks great!
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I LOVE the black additions to your piecing. They really attract attention and look great.
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I still have many fans to finish as I’m hand piecing the outside curve. My preference is appliqué and embroidery. For...
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Helen, Thank you so much for your ideas! You have great EQ8 skills! I have 2 Becky Goldsmith books that I have been using...
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Nice work ! Can I ask, did you use stem stitch on the bluebells ? Or have you whip stitched over a back stitch?
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Not a question, but wanted to share the Kona solids I picked out today for the summer version. Excited to start work on...
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SueMar, I took about 6 months of lessons from Kari Schell. I am now
working with what I learned, and this fall or winter, I will go back and continue on with lessons.
I think she is the best teacher I have ever had in quilting. You can go to her blog and learn a lot just from all the free blog videos she does. But going about it
systematically with her program is almost fool proof for learning how to do what ever you want to do. I highly recommend her.
HelenW
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Originally posted by "Suemar" post=149536To HelenW and pines: I have a question for the 2 of you. I have EQ but need to learn how to use it. Recommendations, please.
Thank you.
The website has a couple of areas where information is shared DoYouEQ? https://doyoueq.com/ and the blog https://doyoueq.com/blog/ . Plus, there is usually a monthly challenge.
When I first got EQ it was EQ4 and the first windows version of the program. I bought the book equivalent of the now EQ8 Lessons for Beginners, and went through it page by page trying each of the lessons.
This program can do so much. My best advice is to read the reference manual, try the video tutorials, and printable lessons, but mostly play with designing blocks and quilts…. You don’t have to make them. It is okay if you don’t like them. You will not break the program.
pines/elaine
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Thanks for advise, I was pretty sure I just need to sit down and go thru tutorials. It's nice to know you started with EQ4. I have EQ8. Since I'm trying to use the Jaybird quilt's, Hex n More ruler for my quilt. I printed out a triangle grid from EQ which helped with my layout. I know EQ could do more, but I need to play with it. Thinking the Kaleidoscope add on might be helpful.
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Here’s my quilt I’ve named 2Q-Squared (Qaffe Qovid Quarantine Quilt) – 2020.
Designing from scratch was new for me so I appreciated Alex’s guidance in selecting and making the pieced blocks. I enjoyed using the Kaffe fabric as a basis for picking the fabrics for the pieced blocks using the color wheel. I’ve never used a color wheel before, but I’m sure I will again. One of my rules was to use some white in each block. I found that I wanted to put it in less predominant places the more blocks I made.
My accountant’s brain kicked in when I was finishing so you’ll notice symmetry in the placement of the “solid” Kaffe blocks, the setting triangles and the borders. I needed a solid border to stop my eye so I used orange and purple 1-inch finished strips. I think black would have looked nice too. I ran out of the pink border fabric so I pieced some of the orange in the middle to match the blocks in the middle. I also used the “half-square triangle in the corner to make it look like a mitered border” trick, and I think it worked because of the solid fabric and the busy-ness of the printed fabrics. If I were to do this again, I’d piece the Kaffe six-inch blocks using a quarter square triangle block, but the fabric is so busy it’s ok.
Thank you, Alex. I was ready to pack it up for the long arm quilter until I heard you say you were going to straight-line quilt yours. I’m looking forward to seeing what you plan to do with this. I may try it.
I’m looking forward to the baskets.
Lindi Overton
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Here is the top of my Kaffe Mystery quilt . Love the colors and am happy with the border that I made for it. Lots of color which I love!. This was my first time doing these types of blocks so I learned a lot. Loved working with the color wheel and will use it again as I piece together the leftover fabrics for my backing. What a great discovery to use the glue stick sometimes! Thank you Alex for an enjoyable experience.
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Carole, Your kona solids will make a beautiful quilt. Not sure if I am going to join in on this project
or not. If... -
Gayle, Love your bird version of the magic garden. Your stitching looks great. the beads on the edge
with the blanket... -
I'm not sure if I will add anymore embroidery....
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I finished my magic garden. This was not my usual colour palette and I am not fond of gnomes so I took creative license...
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Just lovely! I like your flowers too. They fill up the background nicely.
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Beatuiful choices of colors. Fun and whimsical. Nicely done!
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Really fun embroidery choices. It looks great!
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I LOVE the black additions to your piecing. They really attract attention and look great.
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I still have many fans to finish as I’m hand piecing the outside curve. My preference is appliqué and embroidery. For...
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Helen, Thank you so much for your ideas! You have great EQ8 skills! I have 2 Becky Goldsmith books that I have been using...
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Nice work ! Can I ask, did you use stem stitch on the bluebells ? Or have you whip stitched over a back stitch?
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Not a question, but wanted to share the Kona solids I picked out today for the summer version. Excited to start work on...
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