Originally Posted by craftyjulz

I have a question. I’m building a quilt with 12” blocks, all different, but every one of them is going to be surrounded by a 1” border in a variety of colors. I would prefer to design my blocks on a 12” worktable & add the 1” border in later. It’s also going to have sashing so I can’t add the borders that way or is there a way to do more than one thing of sashing? I see under Serendipity there’s a “Frame block” & I chose the smallest option but I don’t see it being able to be adjusted to 1”. Also, does that cut down the interior of my block so it’s no longer 12” because it adds it with the frame to the final choice of block size? I hope what I’m saying is making sense. Should I just make my blocks 13” & add the border around it myself so the size comes out accurately? I’ve already made most the blocks, not from EQ7 but on my own & am going to try to go back & draw & add them into the program. They’re almost all paper pieced so that’s another problem. If the program skews the inches off if I add the frame then any foundation I print will be off for next time so it’s imperative the blocks stay at 12”.
I am going to try to upgrade to EQ8 after playing around with 7 for the last week & working through one of the books. 7 just has too many glitches where I’ve suddenly been missing lines or things won’t select without me having to refresh. Thanks for any help in advanced. I’m a real newbie at EQ but am pretty computer smart so hopefully I can figure it out with a little assistance here. Maybe someone knows of a tutorial or video even?

Originally Posted by eparys

I would use the "merge" option rather than "frame the block". First create a separate block 14x14 with the one inch border only. Then merge the two together. You should get what you want that way.