I recently resurrected an old project that was created in Electric Quilt 4. In an attempt to find the inspiration for that project, I ended up opening a number of my old projects. Although I never found the quilt I was looking for, I did discover the quilt I am sharing with you today.
The quilt has blocks on Layer 1 and Layer 2. And two different heart blocks. I was actually pretty impressed that I was able to do it in EQ4. However the EQ4 fabric options weren't very pretty (i.e. they were ugly in those days). And I did see a few flaws in my design. So I decided to redo the project in EQ8. This ended up being a quilt that I made from my EQ4 design-- because I thought that was what I was suppose to do with my EQ designs. Fabrics
Heart Blocks
While EQ does have a heart under Shapes in the Applique toolkit, I don't actually love the shape of the heart.
Rather that editing that heart, I decided to pick a heart block from the EQ library that better reflected the style of heart I wanted in my quilt. In the video, I cover finding and editing the block from the library and creating two different heart blocks that were used in the quilt. The blocks will be set in an on point quilt, so don't worry about adjusting the fabric rotation on the block worktable. Hearts Quilt
The 2nd heart block was placed on Layer 1 with a single click in each of the block spaces.
The remainder of the quilt was colored (with the exception of the four squares and sashing in the center). Not coloring the blocks under another block, will improve the fabric yardage calculations. The 1st heart block will need to be dragged onto Layer 2 and the size set with the adjust tool. There are no predefined spaces on Layer 2 -- so we get to decide both size and placement of any blocks.
Check out the full tutorial in the video.
Create your own heart quilt in Electric Quilt. If you would like to challenge yourself, consider using a different applique element in the blocks.
I would love to see your design. I've set up a separate post in the Learning EQ Group where you can share your designs. (Or even your favorite heart quilt). Hearts Quilt Construction
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