UK Quilters
Quilt-Pro is a quilt design program for your computer. It works in similar way to EQ8 but there are a few differences particularly in the drawing functions. Both have pre-loaded blocks and fabrics and both offer further blocks and fabrics via their websites or blogs. Both have excellent technical support – you can email them…
The last blog gave a brief introduction to EQ8. As EQ8 is software produced for quilters it is capable of a lot more than drawing blocks. When you open the software, it gives you options under 3 headings, when you click on the heading it will then give you further options. Design quilts Design a…
Why do we put borders on quilts? I think it all depends on the quilt itself and where it is going to live when finished. As mentioned before – the border doesn’t have to be the same all the way round the quilt either, sometimes a border is used simply to make the quilt large…
I’m trying not to write a book here, but it is difficult as my head is buzzing with ideas. So, this time we’ll look at using blocks – traditional blocks, altered blocks and your own designs. Using traditional blocks is where we all start when designing a quilt and, having chosen our block we then…
Have you ever made a Vision Board? I paid good money to go on a workshop for one and most of the time was spent sat on the floor with our eyes closed, being told to picture what we wanted to achieve in our lives. We then had to find pictures in magazines to match…
This quilt probably isn’t the easiest to write about as it was made from random scraps and left-over units – one of those designs that ‘just grew’. However, I will attempt to show how, armed with just a picture and no indication of scale, you can deconstruct it and work out how to make one…
We’ve all been there – you see a quilt in a show, on Facebook or Instagram, on the cover of a magazine and think “I’d like to make one like that, but how has it been done?”. At a show, with the quilt in front of you, it can be easier to work out than…
Before computers I used to design my quilts and blocks with pencil and graph paper, but I have been playing with Electric Quilt since its first incarnation and I’ve upgraded every time since so it never seems quite so expensive, although over the past twenty-plus years it probably has been. I must confess I’m not…
