free webinar plus NEW TUTORIAL ON PRE-DESIGNED CUSTOM SET LAYOUTS

If you haven't signed up for the free EQ8 webinar, here is your last chance.  Even if you cannot attend live, sign up to receive the replay (which will be available for 48 hours).

Then scroll down to see the easiest way to use a custom set layout for your next quilt.  This is so fun, it may become your go to method for future quilt designs.

​Easter Egg Hunt Free EQ8 Live Webinar is Sunday and Monday

 Create a Fabulous Easter Quilt with Foundation Piecing and A Bit of Appliqué

How many times have you wanted to create a new quilt, but struggled with your own drawing skills?  That blank piece of paper (or blank computer screen) can seem super intimidating.  And often those initial efforts can cause us to give up.

But what if you could get beyond bad drawing skills?

• Design your own applique with simple shapes.
• Let the fabric (rather than the drawing) add interest to your quilt.

And create a single block that could be pieced with just one foundation section as the starting point for a set of perfectly coordinated blocks.

Let me show you how to quickly get past the challenges of drawing both applique and foundation blocks using Electric Quilt 8.  
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When you join my free Electric Quilt 8 webinar, I will take you step by step through the entire process to create your own Easter Egg Hunt quilt.  In this live webinar, you will learn how to: ​

Bonus for Attending Live

​Get a chance to win a kit that includes the fabric for the blocks and quilt drafted during the webinar.


One winner selected during each live webinar.  You must be present to win.

What are you waiting for?  Join us today.

PLUS all participants will also receive a guidebook that you will be able to use as a reference both during and after the video.  This will provide you with all the steps (complete with illustrations) to ensure that you can draft the blocks and quilt from the webinar.
 
I am super excited to see your future Easter/spring quilt (either the Electric Quilt version or the real quilt).

​Join us now. ​

Free Webinar Registration Information
Choose the time that works the best below and register for this amazing fun webinar.  You won't be disappointed.

​For all those that attend live, I will be offering a special bonus offer as well.  Make sure to join me.  I can't wait to see you there.

A replay will be available for 48 hours if you cannot attend live.​

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Pre-Made Custom Set Panel Quilt

What is Custom Set?

​A custom set quilt layout in Electric Quilt gives you a “blank canvas” on which to set your blocks. In other words, your blocks do not pop into pre-determined spaces like they do in the other quilt layouts.

​This means that a custom set layout takes more time to set up, but the flexibility in design is worth the extra effort!

I've found that EQ users have a love/hate relationship with custom set. 

On the plus side, we know that we can do virtually anything with a custom set layout. 

However, putting those layouts together can be time consuming and can result in those tiny white gaps where the blocks don't quite come together. 

​What are your opinions?  Let me know in the comments.

Did you know that Electric Quilt has a huge collection of pre-done custom set layouts? It gives us the benefit of being able to use unique designs for quilts that are not based on a standard quilt layout -- with a minimal amount of work.

One of my favorite collections of their pre-made custom set designs is Stars. 

You can find this in the EQ Libraries under Layouts by Style.  There are 57 different custom set Star quilt options under this layout.

Stars Custom Set Layout in the EQ8 Layouts Library

Stars 6 Layout from the EQ8 Library

For todays tutorial we will be using the Star 6 layout.  I know it is a pretty boring name -- but it is one of those layouts that has a lot of potential. 

Squares, on point squares, half square triangles, and quarter square triangles.  ​All of which can be filled with blocks, fabrics--or even photos for a stunning quilt.

In last weeks blog post, I introduced you to the Color Play fabric collection from Northcott.  In the blog we used the same free download collection of the fabric from the Do You EQ website.  This is the collection I will be using in my upcoming free EQ8 webinar - Easter Egg Hunt.  If this collection isn't your thing, you are welcome to select a different group of fabrics to your project.  This is truly one of the best things about EQ8. 

Watch the video shared last week to see how to download the Color Play collection from the Do You EQ website and the extra panel from the Northcott website.

FYI -- There will be a drawing for a collection of the Color Play fabrics at each of the live webinars.  But you must be present to win.  Registration information above.

Color Play Collection used in Easter Egg Hunt Quilt by Kari Schell

Color Play Panel from Northcott

When ordering the fabric to make my Easter Egg Hunt quilt, I saw there was an fun panel that that was not part of the free download. The panel won't be part of the the Easter Egg Hunt quilt -- however, it still intrigued me.   Last week I shared how to break up that big center flower.  This week my quilt will use the smaller blocks on the top and bottom of the panel.

When the panel arrived, I found those blocks measured 7-1/4" x 7-1/4".  Which seemed pretty bizarre.  Maybe the panels stretched in production.  However, as you will see in this video, it actually is pretty easy to accommodate  a custom set layout to work with those strange sized images.

In the video you may have noticed that when EQ puts a block in an on point layout, it does not rotate the fabric in block.  So it is necessary to rotate the fabric 45 degrees in the quilt. 

​When you save the quilt, it will save the revised coloring of the block as well.

Pieced Block from Color Play Quilt

Here is the final quilt from the video.  Pretty fun and can you believe there is only one pieced block in the entire quilt.

I would love to see what you do with the concepts from this video.  Consider trying it with a different set of fabrics or even a different layout.  Post a picture in the Learning EQ Facebook post.

Learning EQ Facebook Post for Color Play Quilt

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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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