quiltingshorttimer

Watch for those books to go on sale on their website--about every 2-3 months they seem to run a sale and they will drop them down to $20/each. I don't have the applique one but if you plan to draw your own applique designs I think from what a friend said, it would be really helpful.

Probably one feature that has paid for the program for me is the ability to design a quilt with different size blocks--which I use all the time for t-shirt quilts. Just don't color the final design and you leave with the grid and you can print it and actually use the grid to figure your cutting sizes.

justflyingin

That's exactly what I mean. None.

But by asking more experienced quilters than I am, or by perusing the internet, it is possible to find how to make most blocks--well, maybe.

I guess I could paper piece them, but I really don't like that idea!

justflyingin

But it is great fun and opens up new doors. I can't imagine spending all that time drawing on graph paper when you can change colors with the click of a mouse and move blocks around in a flash!

Battle Axe

I bought EQ7 and trying to learn to use it. I can't find a Bear Paw block. Can someone please help me.

Marcia

Clay

Mine should be here by Friday. If no one else has an answer for you, I'll try and find it. It will be good practice for me.

Vistacruise

This is the feature I bought it for, and I just get more and more frustrated when I try to use it I end up using Excel, of all things. It has not been worth the $$$$$ for me.

Clay

I did several Goooglie searches and found nothing on T-Shirt quilts with EQ on Utube. I found videos on T-Shirt quilt making but not on using EQ to do it. I found that strange actually, I thought that I would find something. I also went on the website: DoYouEQ and looked through stuff there and on the EQ site itself and the only thing that I found was a reference to a book:
EQ with Me: Quilt Design

Requires EQ7


Item #: B-QUILT


Lesson book for Electric Quilt 7 (EQ7) software. This is the book you’ve asked for! EQ experts show how to design circular quilts, hexagon blocks and quilts, landscapes, t-shirt and photo quilts and MORE. Learn Custom Quilt secrets, and how to design for Accuquilt dies or pre-cuts. Each lesson teaches basic skills you’ll use and reuse in designing your own quilts. Perfect for all EQ7 skill levels.

I have a copy of the manual and did an electronic search under T-shirt and it came up with two references. One of which was on page 45 and talked about scanning pictures and resolution and the next t-shirt reference was on page 190 and it was really talking about a quilt worktable.

I even checked Craftsy to see if there was a Craftsy class available. I'm usually pretty good with my googlefu (computer kung fu) and I was woefully wrong on this one.

Kept digging and so I Edited to add this link: http://doyoueq.com/blog/2016/09/quic...t-shirt-quilt/

quiltingshorttimer

In the EQ7 book Designing with EQ7 there is a lesson on designing a quilt with different size blocks--that is the feature that you often use with t-shirts when different size logos. So in the manual look for design with different size blocks.

Onebyone

A guild member makes t shirt quilts for others. She uses EQ7 to put in the t shirt square sizes and moves them around until she finds a layout she and her customers likes.

Clay

This thread is now beyond "Are there any EQ7 competitors?".

I took delivery of EQ7 just a couple of hours ago. I've been thinking about this ever since I ordered the program. I started to wish for a section of the board or a subforum specifically on EQ7. I realize that would involve finding someone to moderate that subforum. I'm not the guy, my program just arrived today.

I think that I will start a new thread, hopefully a long lived one. There we can share ideas, ask questions and hopefully have someone willing to shed some light on the subject. To find the thread please Search for: "EQ7 Questions, Answers and Comments".