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Importing Fabric Into EQ

February 6, 2012

My quilts are always designed in EQ and mostly I use fabrics already in the EQ libraries that are similar to the fabrics I intend to use.  Since so much of what I use is tone on tone, it’s real easy to get a close red or a close blue but for the Palette Challenge, [...]

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Flying Geese Tutorial

February 2, 2012

My second rant for the day (and what I was going to add to the first one but it got too long) . . if you’re doing something and you’re not happy with what you’re doing . . fix it!  If you’re making flying geese and they’re never turning out right, find a new way [...]

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Salad in A Jar – Start to Finish

November 13, 2011

There have been several posts about the salad in a jar and each time there are questions that were actually answered in previous posts so I’m going to label this post as a “Tutorial” so it will be easy to find and I’m going to go into great detail .. though this is a very, [...]

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Calculating Yardage

November 12, 2011

Yesterday we determined that we needed the following pieces to make the 12 blocks needed for the top. Green: 12 – 4-1/2″ squares Background: 48 – 2-1/2″ x 4-1/2″ rectangles Background: 144 – 2-1/2″ squares Blue: 96 – 2-1/2″ x 4-1/2″ rectangles Blue: 144 – 2-1/2″ squares This is a chart that I keep in [...]

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Total Block Pieces Needed

November 11, 2011

Now that we’ve figured out the pieces we need to make our block, we need to know how much fabric we need.  Let’s suppose we’re making the block from Wednesday’s post: Let’s suppose we want to put the block in a setting that has 4 rows with 3 blocks in each row, for a total [...]

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Dissecting a Block

November 9, 2011

When designing your own quilts, many struggle with enlarging or reducing a block, or an entire design, which often changes the border measurements, and figuring their yardage.  It involves a little math but it is very simple math — addition, multiplication and a bit of division.  Grab a calculator and stop groaning!    Seriously, if [...]

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