I lost my mom and through inheriting her machine and stash found the love of sewing. I adore y’all’s relationship and it tears me up a bit. Love how loving yall are I wish I had sewn with my mom. 😊❤
Thanks! Chelsi, my daughter is like you and does amazing things under a deadline- and I’m more of a plodder! Love your medallion quilt! Another great podcast thanks to all three of you!
My copy of Family Favorites arrived 2 days ago, and I just LOVE the book. The quilts are gorgeous, and as usual, the team at It's Sew Emma did a fantastic job with the layout and the photography. This may sound silly, but my very favorite page is page 3. It is a photo of stacks of the 10 different colors making up both Strawberry Lemonade and Laguna Sunrise. Those fabrics take me to my happy place. I just love sewing with these beautiful, colorful fabrics.
Morning girlies! I am excited to see your full medallion quilt pattern. Both of your new patterns are just stunning and caught my eye every time. I also am anxious to hear about EQ8! ❤❤
Have purchased Sweet Adventure and two other patterns from you and hope to start sewing in the near future. Your episodes are so entertaining as well as informative such as today with quilt design explanations. Thank you Sherri, Chelsi, and Billy for the great job you do each time you put up a new episode. 👏👏👏
💖 Chelsi I love your Sweet Adcenture quilt My friend and I are going to make this next year as our’block of the month’ project. So excited to see how they look
Love you all! This was an amazing episode. I have considered buying the software for quite some time now, I think you have convinced me. I’ll click on your link. ❤
I love starting off my week and day with a new video from you guys! Beautiful quilts as always and fabrics, can’t wait until I get my new fabrics from your line!
Thank you so much, Billy, for telling us about the eq tutorials on UA-cam. Does anyone know if I can use it on my android phone, or do I need to get my computer out that I haven't used for over 7 years. Wonderful show and tell 👏. Thank you to you all and the people who help you make all you design. ❤🎉😊
I’ve been using EQ8 for a couple years now. I use it mainly to re-color with fabrics, but can use it to “re-create” anything. I had a great quilt teacher tell me once, when you are at Quilt Festival (I live in Houston), a show, see a pattern or quilt. Concentrate on the components of the quilt, the blocks, not the quilt as a whole. I always take a notepad with me everywhere and a 6” x 1” ruler in my purse. 😂
speaking of starting with ideas of wanting to combine blocks a different way, let me say how much I love the way the stems and leaves in "Harbor" run horizontal to the flower blooms as opposed to vertical. I have loved that so much since I saw it and its on my short list now, either the whole quilt or at least that row in a combined pattern row quilt yet to be determined.
Enjoyed learning about your pattern design process. I also won a copy of EQ 8 from my local quilt shop but I’m still quite a novice at using it. This podcast gave me the incentive to try using it again!
I wanted to try a different background color for a quilt pattern but was unsure the original pattern would shine through with a different color. I used to print the pattern cover and use colored pencils to try to get an idea of what changes would look like. This time I used a photo editing app on my phone to “remove background” using the AI technology. Then I replaced the background with a jpeg I had saved of the fabric from the manufacturer website. I tried a few different options and it was so easy and fun! I ordered the background fabric and I am so happy with how the quilt is turning out.
And now I know I'm on the right track. I also stroll through the encyclopedia of quilt blocks and find something new. For example the friendship star used to just strike me as primitive and not my style. Lately I've seen a version of a modified version everywhere. I think someone must be doing a series project but it's turning up a lot and I like the uses . I also sort through all the steps. Like fabric choices if I'm on the ball I put the fabric in eq library when I order it. I have a file box I call finishes. Where I collect all kinds of quilting methods and designs like the last two pages of AQ magazine has free motion designs I might tear those two pages out and put them in the file. I haven't wrecked the magazine it's often ads on back pages. My machine broke down this weekend. Bright side you organize all of these elements when you can't sew.
Chelsi I am the same way. I work better under pressure! In college for nursing school when I had papers to do. I was printing my paper when it was time to go out the door to class!
am not interested in designing quilts, but would EQ8 help me to see a quilt with fabric placement? Like could I pull up a pattern and color it in with fabrics? I can’t “see” a finished quilt in my head and I am so overwhelmed with what colors to put where. I usually choose a quilt I like, buy the pattern and fabric and make it exactly the same. Sorry my message is so long!
Great episode. I have EQ8 but haven’t really used it yet. The encouragement helps me get excited to try. Chelsea your Sweet Adventure pattern is gorgeous as are all the quilts. What is the quilt behind Chelsea at the very top. It looks like sunshine. ❤
Love the Medallion quilt🧡 I have discovered EQ8 is terribly expensive😭 If I were a pattern designer or business selling my quilts, I could justify the cost of the program and a computer to run it. I’ll just continue to use my great books as tools💕🧵
If you answered this question in the video I apologize, but when you’re designing quilts for an upcoming fabric line, do you have images of the fabrics that you can use in EQ8 so you know how they will look in that fabric, or do you have another method to approximate the look? This is a great discussion! I admit I have EQ8 but haven’t used it much. I found it kind of hard to navigate but I haven’t taken the time to really study it. I keep saying someday….. 😀
Sweet Adventure Quilt is gorgeous and surely will be made by many, so well done Chelsi. Always love your fabric lines. Thanks for sharing with us. 👍❤️🙂
I am interested in using something like the EQ8 program that you talk about but right now I don’t have access to a good computer. It would be fun to play with a design program. I have a panel called “Press On” I bought and I am trying to design blocks and borders to go with it. I enjoy working on my Apple IPad. Wonder if there are any good apps that I could use on that? Do you know of any?
So I like purchasing random fat quarters from my local fabric store. Sometimes the salvage edge is still on the fabric so that I have the name but sometimes not. I have thought many times about purchasing EQ8 software to help me use those fabrics in a pattern. I think I have heard that fabric can be downloaded/uploaded into the program. Could someone tell me whether what I am wanting to do is possible? I don’t want to create my own patterns per se, I just want to see how my random fat quarters may look together in a pattern. Also can patterns we have purchased be uploaded in the program? Thank you Sherri, Chelsi & Billy. Love your podcast!!
I lost my mom and through inheriting her machine and stash found the love of sewing. I adore y’all’s relationship and it tears me up a bit. Love how loving yall are I wish I had sewn with my mom. 😊❤
sorry for your loss. i just lost my daughter/33/to suicide....remember, take care of you....
@@MelanieClaire61 sorry for your loss as well. Lost my parents 5 weeks apart 10 years ago. Only thing that would be worse is losing a child.
Thanks! Chelsi, my daughter is like you and does amazing things under a deadline- and I’m more of a plodder!
Love your medallion quilt!
Another great podcast thanks to all three of you!
Good morning guys! I just love watching your podcasts first thing in am with my coffee. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts with all of us.❤
My copy of Family Favorites arrived 2 days ago, and I just LOVE the book. The quilts are gorgeous, and as usual, the team at It's Sew Emma did a fantastic job with the layout and the photography. This may sound silly, but my very favorite page is page 3. It is a photo of stacks of the 10 different colors making up both Strawberry Lemonade and Laguna Sunrise. Those fabrics take me to my happy place. I just love sewing with these beautiful, colorful fabrics.
Morning girlies! I am excited to see your full medallion quilt pattern. Both of your new patterns are just stunning and caught my eye every time.
I also am anxious to hear about EQ8! ❤❤
Have purchased Sweet Adventure and two other patterns from you and hope to start sewing in the near future. Your episodes are so entertaining as well as informative such as today with quilt design explanations. Thank you Sherri, Chelsi, and Billy for the great job you do each time you put up a new episode. 👏👏👏
I love to see how you have finished projects! I watched Thursday at 7:47.
I love it too ❤. Chelsi medallion quilt. As a beginner I feel I can do this one.
I love your Sweet Adventure Quilt. I am a fan of Medallion quilts and row quilts. I have patterns from both of you.
💖 Chelsi I love your Sweet Adcenture quilt
My friend and I are going to make this next year as our’block of the month’ project. So excited to see how they look
Love you all! This was an amazing episode. I have considered buying the software for quite some time now, I think you have convinced me. I’ll click on your link. ❤
I love starting off my week and day with a new video from you guys! Beautiful quilts as always and fabrics, can’t wait until I get my new fabrics from your line!
Sheri you carry on your quilts!!! Never know!!!!! You are such a good mom!!!❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much, Billy, for telling us about the eq tutorials on UA-cam. Does anyone know if I can use it on my android phone, or do I need to get my computer out that I haven't used for over 7 years.
Wonderful show and tell 👏. Thank you to you all and the people who help you make all you design. ❤🎉😊
I’ve been using EQ8 for a couple years now. I use it mainly to re-color with fabrics, but can use it to “re-create” anything. I had a great quilt teacher tell me once, when you are at Quilt Festival (I live in Houston), a show, see a pattern or quilt. Concentrate on the components of the quilt, the blocks, not the quilt as a whole. I always take a notepad with me everywhere and a 6” x 1” ruler in my purse. 😂
great advice!
speaking of starting with ideas of wanting to combine blocks a different way, let me say how much I love the way the stems and leaves in "Harbor" run horizontal to the flower blooms as opposed to vertical. I have loved that so much since I saw it and its on my short list now, either the whole quilt or at least that row in a combined pattern row quilt yet to be determined.
This makes me want to try EQ! Its always seemed so intimidating, but Chelsea 😘 yep thanks girl 😁 thanks for the little pep talk!
Enjoyed learning about your pattern design process. I also won a copy of EQ 8 from my local quilt shop but I’m still quite a novice at using it. This podcast gave me the incentive to try using it again!
I received your new book today, “Family Favorites”! It’s beautiful!!!
Another great podcast! I look forward to theses.
I wanted to try a different background color for a quilt pattern but was unsure the original pattern would shine through with a different color. I used to print the pattern cover and use colored pencils to try to get an idea of what changes would look like. This time I used a photo editing app on my phone to “remove background” using the AI technology. Then I replaced the background with a jpeg I had saved of the fabric from the manufacturer website. I tried a few different options and it was so easy and fun! I ordered the background fabric and I am so happy with how the quilt is turning out.
My mom did my hand binding on a small runner. I just hate to hand bind but she loves it. I prefer machine sewing and do all of her machine sewing 😊
See you in Utah!! 😊
Chelsea your quilts are beautiful!
And now I know I'm on the right track. I also stroll through the encyclopedia of quilt blocks and find something new. For example the friendship star used to just strike me as primitive and not my style. Lately I've seen a version of a modified version everywhere. I think someone must be doing a series project but it's turning up a lot and I like the uses . I also sort through all the steps. Like fabric choices if I'm on the ball I put the fabric in eq library when I order it. I have a file box I call finishes. Where I collect all kinds of quilting methods and designs like the last two pages of AQ magazine has free motion designs I might tear those two pages out and put them in the file. I haven't wrecked the magazine it's often ads on back pages. My machine broke down this weekend. Bright side you organize all of these elements when you can't sew.
Chelsi I am the same way. I work better under pressure! In college for nursing school when I had papers to do. I was printing my paper when it was time to go out the door to class!
Does EQ8 also help you with writing the quilt cutting and construction directions, or do you do that yourself after the design is complete?
I wondered the same thing.
I have read all of them ,there great books.
am not interested in designing quilts, but would EQ8 help me to see a quilt with fabric placement? Like could I pull up a pattern and color it in with fabrics? I can’t “see” a finished quilt in my head and I am so overwhelmed with what colors to put where. I usually choose a quilt I like, buy the pattern and fabric and make it exactly the same. Sorry my message is so long!
Very motivating episode! I hope EQ gives you a commission
Great episode. I have EQ8 but haven’t really used it yet. The encouragement helps me get excited to try. Chelsea your Sweet Adventure pattern is gorgeous as are all the quilts. What is the quilt behind Chelsea at the very top. It looks like sunshine. ❤
Harbor by Sherri
Thank you
Love the Medallion quilt🧡
I have discovered EQ8 is terribly expensive😭 If I were a pattern designer or business selling my quilts, I could justify the cost of the program and a computer to run it. I’ll just continue to use my great books as tools💕🧵
If you answered this question in the video I apologize, but when you’re designing quilts for an upcoming fabric line, do you have images of the fabrics that you can use in EQ8 so you know how they will look in that fabric, or do you have another method to approximate the look? This is a great discussion! I admit I have EQ8 but haven’t used it much. I found it kind of hard to navigate but I haven’t taken the time to really study it. I keep saying someday….. 😀
Chelsea don’t stop putting hearts. I love hearts and stars.
Put an apple AirTag in each of your suitcases. It definitely is reassuring to know where your bags are at all times.
I just purchased EQ8 which book did you purchase to start to learn on? please help I want to design my grand daughter a quilt.
Sweet Adventure Quilt is gorgeous and surely will be made by many, so well done Chelsi. Always love your fabric lines. Thanks for sharing with us. 👍❤️🙂
I am interested in using something like the EQ8 program that you talk about but right now I don’t have access to a good computer. It would be fun to play with a design program. I have a panel called “Press On” I bought and I am trying to design blocks and borders to go with it. I enjoy working on my Apple IPad. Wonder if there are any good apps that I could use on that? Do you know of any?
So I like purchasing random fat quarters from my local fabric store. Sometimes the salvage edge is still on the fabric so that I have the name but sometimes not. I have thought many times about purchasing EQ8 software to help me use those fabrics in a pattern. I think I have heard that fabric can be downloaded/uploaded into the program. Could someone tell me whether what I am wanting to do is possible? I don’t want to create my own patterns per se, I just want to see how my random fat quarters may look together in a pattern. Also can patterns we have purchased be uploaded in the program?
Thank you Sherri, Chelsi & Billy. Love your podcast!!
Curious ... how many hours a day do you folks spend sewing/piecing .... quilt making/designing ... ?
Do you know if EQ8 is iMac compatible?
I have it on my Mac. If I remember correctly, you have to specify Mac or Windows when you purchase.
@@kimhensley4543 thanks!!!
I still haven't figured out a lot of the tools nor how to access them all. Maybe I'm just overwhelmed by the program.
I have the actual quilt block pattern book.
Me please