What will I learn from EQ5 Quilt Design?

Posies and Prairie Points - from Lesson 12. Learn how to design a Prairie Point edge as well as a checkerboard border.

EQ5 Quilt Design will give you a firm grounding in quilt design basics, including using Custom Set and the Graph Pad. You'll also find it filled with illustrated border, layout and setting ideas you'll refer to again and again as you work on your own.

Choose from easy, intermediate and advanced lessons

Lesson 1: Designing a Quilt 101 - The perfect "beginner's first lesson." Start clueless! Finish knowing how to overlay appliqué, embroidery and quilting as you design fourteen quilts!

Under a Blanket of Love - from Lesson 16. No wonder Barb won "Viewer's Choice" awards with this quilt! What child wouldn't love sleeping under quilt-tucked Teddies?

Lesson 4: Streak of Lightning - Barb shows you how to offset strips, creating a versatile zig zag setting to use and reuse with different blocks.

Lesson 6: Showcase of Fabrics - Make the ideal "I Spy" layout for your favorite novelty fabrics.

Lesson 14: Groom's Wedding Ring - Learn the secret to creating a scalloped Wedding Ring border. Discover how to draw stunning new blocks the easy way - by superimposing one ready-made drawing on another.

Barb has written step-by-step lessons for designing twenty-nine quilts - from crib quilts to tree skirts.

Deep Blue Sea - from Lesson 10. Make waves (by editing a Drunkard's Path block). Then set blocks and fish afloat.

Includes a "Design Idea Sourcebook" containing hundreds of quilt design ideas

The Design Idea Sourcebook is meant to be your quilt design reference, to use as you design on your own. It illustrates over 100 stunning border examples, plus tells you how to:

Make a simple Center Medallion quilt
Use Custom Set
Plan border corners
Make a Garden Maze setting
Use photos in your quilt
Create Irish Chain quilts
Combine blocks to create secondary designs
Work with asymmetry for exciting effects
Design pieced sashing
Set long sashing without cornerstones
Print setting triangle templates
Design vine borders
Work with tilted blocks

Barb Vlack, is known as a popular Chicago area quilting teacher as well as an EQ expert, teacher and author of two previous books published by The Electric Quilt Company: Too Much Fun! (1997) and EQ4 Magic (1999). She is currently an EQ Forum moderator, as well as the ClubEQ monthly "challenge master."

Known for her enthusiasm, wealth of quiltmaking knowledge and humorous delivery, she has taught hands-on Electric Quilt software classes at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas, the American Quilt Society show in Paducah, Kentucky, and other national quilt shows. She also designs and creates church altar paraments and clergy vestments under the name Wild Rose Designs.

Electric Quilt ® 5 Quilt Design Book Overview

Electric Quilt ® 5 Quilt Design Book

What will I learn from EQ5 Quilt Design?


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