I love EQ8. I'm pretty computer proficient; however, I don't find the EQ8 program intuitive. However, for a small $ but larger time investment in the program, you can save lots of costly mistakes in your quilt design. It is feature rich, to include allowing you design your own templates/foundations and to import/export into other file types (pdf, svg). You can also import img files of your fabrics (and mftr sites often have the designer's portfolio of a fabric group), and experiment with how they look in your quilt design. Thank you for creating this useful tutorial for your viewers.
For foundations, if you go to sections, you can choose sections which elements you want to group. You can then get rid of any pieces you don't want to paper piece. Accordingly, rather than making the block smaller to fit on the page, choose the center section as a group (as that is where the intricacy is). The side blocks are easily aligned without FPP. (I only recently knew that I could do this grouping thanks to a vid by Nancy at On Point TV--though clearly if I had read instructions I would have known!). Also, for those that like to use templates rather than random pieces of fabric for your FPP pieces, you can go to the templates section. Choose a wide seam allowance (.5-.6) to create templates to use for cutting your materials. I found that these settings were helpful, and if you honor the notches on angular pieces, it helps you stay inside your foundation lines when you set them. I recently tackled a FPP Pickle Dish block and found these features...I'm moving toward a New York beauty.
Thank you for your video - very helpful. I am BRAND NEW to EQ, just downloaded 8 last night. I noticed that when segments are deleted, the nodes are left behind. How do you get rid of those? Thanks again!
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This is a big help to decide about purchasing EQ8!
I love EQ8. I'm pretty computer proficient; however, I don't find the EQ8 program intuitive. However, for a small $ but larger time investment in the program, you can save lots of costly mistakes in your quilt design. It is feature rich, to include allowing you design your own templates/foundations and to import/export into other file types (pdf, svg). You can also import img files of your fabrics (and mftr sites often have the designer's portfolio of a fabric group), and experiment with how they look in your quilt design. Thank you for creating this useful tutorial for your viewers.
For foundations, if you go to sections, you can choose sections which elements you want to group. You can then get rid of any pieces you don't want to paper piece. Accordingly, rather than making the block smaller to fit on the page, choose the center section as a group (as that is where the intricacy is). The side blocks are easily aligned without FPP. (I only recently knew that I could do this grouping thanks to a vid by Nancy at On Point TV--though clearly if I had read instructions I would have known!). Also, for those that like to use templates rather than random pieces of fabric for your FPP pieces, you can go to the templates section. Choose a wide seam allowance (.5-.6) to create templates to use for cutting your materials. I found that these settings were helpful, and if you honor the notches on angular pieces, it helps you stay inside your foundation lines when you set them. I recently tackled a FPP Pickle Dish block and found these features...I'm moving toward a New York beauty.
Thank you for putting this video together. Would greatly appreciate more videos like this. Also just subscribed 😊
So excited for this series! EQ8 has been hard to navigate. Thank you!
Hope you enjoy it!
Thank you for your video - very helpful. I am BRAND NEW to EQ, just downloaded 8 last night. I noticed that when segments are deleted, the nodes are left behind. How do you get rid of those? Thanks again!
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