EQ6 Appliqué Drawing
Learn to draw appliqué from a pro! Angie Padilla, creator of the My Dream House add-on for EQ5 and EQ6, teaches you from the beginning how to draw and edit appliqué patches to create spectacular blocks.
Chapter 1: Back to the Basics - in
this chapter you'll learn how to:
• select and delete patches
• copy, paste and move patches around
• clone patches
• flip patches
• resize patches many different ways
• rotate patches many different ways
• mix patches from different blocks
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Chapter 2: Drawing Simple Lines and Curves - in this chapter you'll begin to customize your workspace and learn how to:
• Draw and edit lines
• Work with snapping options • Draw straight lines
• Use guides
• Draw curves
• Draw curves and lines without changing tools
• Use building blocks as guides to develop a more realistic drawing
• Draw freehand and trace for the first time |
Chapter 3: Drawing Two Lines at Once -
start using the new EQ6 Brush Stroke tool and learn how to:
• Change the brush stroke style, ends, taper, and thickness
• Draw vines and leaves with the Brush Stroke tool
• Use symmetry to create folk-art designs
• How to use the Precision Bar for brush strokes
• Import blocks from other projects |
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Chapter 4: Drawing with Pre-Defined Shapes -
in this chapter you'll learn how to:
• Use pre-defined shapes to make quick patches
• Use the Precision Bar to do things faster
• Use the Precision Bar to round rectangles and split circles
into wedges
• Make a wreath
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Chapter 5: Putting it All Together -
use everything you've learned so far to make more complex blocks. You
learn how to:
• Import photos to trace
• Trace photos
• How to draw thread lines
• Make complex wreaths, folk-art crossing designs, and Hawaiian
appliqué
• Flip and rotate open patches and snap them together to make a complex
symmetrical closed patch
• Edit a focus block and create setting triangles, borders,
sash blocks, and cornerstones to match |
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Chapter 6: Tips and Tricks - follow
these quick lessons that show you how to:
• Change from square to rectangular blocks
• Turn blocks with a background into motifs that can float on
layer 2
• Make overlaid blocks
• Use the wreath feature to make feathered quilting stencils
• Draw complex threadwork designs
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Angie Padilla was born in the USA and raised
in Quito, Ecuador. A self-taught quilter,
Angie’s initial interest in sewing actually
lay in garment making. Quilting slowly started to take over and eventually
evolved into a passion. Angie’s parallel love
of computers and Internet technology naturally led to the creation of a website
which continued to grow over the years and which today showcases her quilt
patterns: www.ajpadilla.com
Angie created the My
Dream House CD, won
the EQ Anniversary contest, and placed second in the Single Maker category
for the Do You EQ? Contest. Read
our interview with Angie.
Preview a free lesson (PDF format)
