Equilateral Triangle Quilts Made Easy with EQ8

Equilateral Triangle Quilts Made Easy

12/30/2017

In one of the Electric Quilt Facebook groups this week, someone was asking about creating non-rectangular blocks for a quilt designed with equilateral triangles.

My recommendation was to design a pieced equilateral block in either Pieced Patch Draw or in the Applique section of the program. But after thinking about this, I decided there is a much simpler option -- one which I will share with you in this weeks free video tutorial.

Here are the blocks and my designed quilts presented in this video..

EQ Default 9 Patch Chain Block

Equilateral Triangle Quilt Designed from EQ Default 9 Patch Chain Block - by Kari Schell

Quarter 7 Log Cabin Block from the EQ8 Library

Equilateral Triangle Quilt Designed from the Quarter 7 Log Cabin block - by Kari Schell

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Kari

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Cathy

12/30/2017 02:18:17 pm

Nicely done Kari.

Cheryl Keil

12/30/2017 04:48:45 pm

I was able to do the Hexagon blocks but not able to put the hexagon motif behind it for the binding. It kept wanting to cut in behind one of the triangle sections. One of the section would come forward but the rest of the motif would stay up front, if that makes sense. Like the block was coming apart.

Kari Schell

12/30/2017 05:09:29 pm

You might be picking up one of the other blocks instead of the binding block. Try moving the binding block to the right and then select move to back with the adjust tool. Then move it back in place. Also use the refresh tool -- as sometimes those "shadows" can be deceiving.

12/30/2017 05:33:26 pm

Thank you, that worked. I had to bring in the motif to the side, which it did not want to do, and then bring it to the back before I adjusted it. Thank you. This was fun

Toni Leggate

12/31/2017 07:14:10 am

Brilliant video Kari - many thanks - I have tried many times to achieve something similar without such good success and far move convoluted!

Happy New Year Kari....

Mary

1/3/2018 01:26:17 pm

Hi Kari,
I think I did everything right and had no issues until I got to the place where you were working on the cheater binding. When I moved it to the back, I couldn't see any of the backing outlined around the top. When I tried to make the block that had the hexagon on it bigger, I really messed myself up. Do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong? I followed every one of your steps carefully until that point. Thanks!

1/3/2018 04:15:53 pm

Mary -- When you saw that it was too small you should have click on undo to bring it back to the top. Then fix the size issue before bringing it back to the bottom. Or you could have selected each of the pieces on the top and send them to the back -- which brings the back piece to the top.

1/3/2018 05:44:23 pm

Thanks, Kari. That helped. I finally got it. Great project! I learned a lot!

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