Who doesn't like to play with virtual fabric?
I love my Electric Quilt 7 software for that and so much more!
I can sit and play for hours and create some wonderful quilts. Will I ever make them? Yes, I do, well some of them... like the Farmers Wife blocks.
If I want to see what a particular fabric would look like before I cut my expensive fabric and thank goodness I do because what may look good sitting on the work table, looks horrid when it is made into a block. Case in point, the quilt to the left. I did not put the fabrics into EQ, the jelly roll looked beautiful, but when I got it together, well you see what happened! Jelly Roll Opps is the name of this quilt.
I was reading Facebook a few days back and came across a post by Electric Quilt for a 2 week block challenge. Thought, humm, maybe, but I just don't have the time right now to invest into a new block, so I just kept reading FB and forgot about the post.
Again, I was checking FB and found a post by EQ saying that there was only one week left in the challenge. Well, now I am sitting at home and in front of my computer... what the heck, downloaded the fabric pallet we are supposed to use and went to work. 2 hours later, I come up with this block. See. it does make a difference when you can play with the fabrics before you sew them!
The line of fabric is Fiesta by Michael Miller Fabrics. It was a challenge to do this in EQ as it is a directional fabric, the block, as you can see, is does not have a straight 45° angle anywhere.
BUT
Electric Quilt has a tool called "rotate fabric". You can rotate in a standard 90°, move the fabric to the edge of the design or the one I used, "Advanced" lets you rotate to any degree. So I manipulated the fabric in the center to the positions you see here.
So, if I win, I will make up one of the blocks and post it here so you all can see what the real fabric looks like made up.
I will leave you with this thought: I hate tacos said no Juan ever! LOL
Happy Fiesta!!
Susan
I can sit and play for hours and create some wonderful quilts. Will I ever make them? Yes, I do, well some of them... like the Farmers Wife blocks.
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| Jelly roll Opps! |
I was reading Facebook a few days back and came across a post by Electric Quilt for a 2 week block challenge. Thought, humm, maybe, but I just don't have the time right now to invest into a new block, so I just kept reading FB and forgot about the post.
Again, I was checking FB and found a post by EQ saying that there was only one week left in the challenge. Well, now I am sitting at home and in front of my computer... what the heck, downloaded the fabric pallet we are supposed to use and went to work. 2 hours later, I come up with this block. See. it does make a difference when you can play with the fabrics before you sew them!
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| Fiesta Challenge Block |
BUT
Electric Quilt has a tool called "rotate fabric". You can rotate in a standard 90°, move the fabric to the edge of the design or the one I used, "Advanced" lets you rotate to any degree. So I manipulated the fabric in the center to the positions you see here.
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| Un-rotated fabric |
This is the block un-rotated.. totally different look.
So, if I win, I will make up one of the blocks and post it here so you all can see what the real fabric looks like made up.
I will leave you with this thought: I hate tacos said no Juan ever! LOL
Happy Fiesta!!
Susan
I really loved your block, Susan.
ReplyDeleteSusan - thank you - this post saved me... I'm still learning EQ7 (by the seat of my pants) and needed to rotate a stripe on a border. You are a GEM!! Many thanks.
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