Originally Posted by sandyl
I'm using EQ7. Here's the block I'm trying to duplicate.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-50718-1.htm Ninnie has supplied a great picture of the block and I thought it would be easy enough to do. I am so anxious for the lessons in EQ to begin in Quilt University. I need them as I sure am not able to follow the manual.
I don't have EQ7 but I do have 6. I don't know how they differ but what I would do is set the grid for 8 lines across by 8 lines down. Then use the line tool (the arrow) and put in the lines for the HSTs where and the direction you need them to go. I am sure you have something that does the same thing in 7. Then add your colors to the quilt block.
You need to change the grid before you can do the size of blocks. It will stay with a grid of 4 until you fix that to 8. You don't want 16 you have 8 blocks to a row with 8 rows. so you need 8 as the horizontal and 8 as the vertical lines. In mine you set the size of the whole block not the individual blocks within the quilt block. Now that may be a differance between 6 and 7. I don't know.
I would
Check the size of the grid-- make it 8 x 8
Put in the lines for the HSTs
Put in the color and save it
Check to see where you choose the size of the quilt block and change it to the size you want which is 16" x 16"
These steps may vary a bit between 6 and 7 but I think they should be relatively the same just probably in a differant place in the program from one to the other. In 6 there is a grid tool at the bottom of the list of tools in the Block worktable. I just changed the number to 8 in both places and clicked on the corner of the grid box and drew the grid across the box to the bottom corner and let go and it set the grid.
Let me know if this helps any. There are lots of EQ7 owners on here and you will probably get others who can give you more precise directions for using 7