Jan T is the EQ guru!
Electric Quilt tutorials for you to download and enjoy.
Excerpts from Jan T's Computer Quilts column in Down Under quilts — free for you.
Let Jan T — the EQ guru — show you how to design quilts using Electric Quilt software. You can ask her for solutions to your EQ problems.
New tutorial on pantographs and stencils
in EQ 5, 6 or 7
- Quilting stencils made easy
- I've always loved the stencils in Electric Quilt, but I have recently acquired a mid-arm frame quilting table, and now I can use the stencils as pantographs or pattern guides.
One of my favourite features of Electric Quilt has always been the ability to print a block in exactly the size you have designed. This is especially true of quilting patterns, as you can print the exact dimensions for the quilt block or border that you have drawn. That means that the stencil is custom made for your quilt.
Print preview of the finished pantograph
Border stencil preview
Playing with EQ7
Image worktable fun
- Playing with the new Image Worktable
- One of the new features in the latest version of Electric Quilt
There's a fabulous new version of EQ
EQ7 is here!
Way too many features to write about in one lens. I'll keep adding as I discover what's exciting. There are 75 new features in EQ7.Photo Patchwork layout, Image worktable, eyedropper can find colour in photos, 10 automatic layouts, over 540 pre-designed layouts, 5000 blocks, more than 5000 fanrics ...
Watch this space!
EQ Lesson
on Free Patchwork & Quilting Lessons website
- Blocks in any size from EQ
- Electric Quilt can give you blocks any size: When I travel around teaching quilters how to get the most out of EQ, I love the reaction to getting a block to be any size or shape, regardless of what size it was drawn. If you draw (or choose from the library) a block and then set it into a quilt layou
Get your copy of EQ 7
buy from Amazon
Electric Quilt 7
Amazon Price: $189.95 (as of 05/26/2012)
The best and most amazing quilt design software on the planet! You'll love using this programme.
I have been plying with it for nearly twenty years, and I just love it!
Using a previous version of EQ?
Buy your upgrade from Amazon
Electric Quilt 7 Upgrade (EQ7 Upgrade)
Amazon Price: $89.89 (as of 05/26/2012)
Upgrade to version 7.
The extra features and capability of EQ7 far out weigh what other versions had.
A breakthrough upgrade.
Great beginner's EQ book
buy at Amazon
The Electric Quilt Co. EQ6 Simplified Book-
Amazon Price: $96.51 (as of 05/26/2012)
Not sure how to use EQ?
Then buy this simplified book, work your way through all the lessons, and you'll be up there with the best!
EQ 6 Block Book
buy from Amazon
The Electric Quilt Co. EQ6 Block Book-
Amazon Price: $9.29 (as of 05/26/2012)
All of the blocks (over 4000 of them) are shown in sections, to help you locate them in Electric Quilt
New EQ lesson
Make new quilt layouts
- Make a quilt layout from a block
- Save quilt layouts in Electric Quilt 6: In EQ 6, you can make a new quilt layout from a block in your sketchbook. The process is simple, copy some blocks into your sketchbook, and ask EQ to make a quilt layout from one of them. You've designed a new layout. You can save the layouts into a library us
Updated lessons
of the PDF tutorials
Many of the lessons below have been updated and expanded on the Free Patchwork and Quilting Lessons website.Check them out here:
Free Patchwork and Quilting Lessons
Download free Electric Quilt tutorials
(You may need Acrobat Reader)
All the following tutorials are in PDF formFrom my column—Computer Quilts—in Down Under Quilts magazine
- Borders on Borders
- Colourwash Designs In EQ
- EQ Gets A New Look
- EQ's New Tools
- Isn't EQ6 Clever
- Make Your Own Quilt Layouts
- Serendipity Revisited
- Erica's Challenge for Me (and EQ6)
- Favourite Features in EQ5
- Help for EQ
- Issue 100 Contest
- Lift Your Design IQ in EQ
- Scan Your Fabrics in EQ? YesYou Can!
- Change Your Preferences in EQ5
- Trace Photos in EQ5 (or any version from 3)
- Why Use Quilt Design Software?
Show and Tell your EQ projects
at The Quilt Club
- The Quilt Club
- Online quilters' community for quilters worldwide to share anything related to quilts and quiltmaking
Great intermediate to advanced EQ book
buy at Amazon
The Electric Quilt Co. EQ6 Pieced Drawing Book-
Amazon Price: $12.00 (as of 05/26/2012)
I recently wrote a review of this excellent book for my column in Down Under Quilts magazine.
Great instructions, and easy to follow. Buy it and learn.
Another great intermediate to advanced EQ book
buy at Amazon
EQ6 Applique Drawing Book
Amazon Price: $11.00 (as of 05/26/2012)
I learned so much when I reviewed this book. I'm not an appplique person, but I enjoyed the book immensely!
The List of all Jan T's helpful EQ tips
and tutorials on Squidoo
EQ companion CD
Stars and Sets from Judy Matheison
Electric Quilt's Judy Martin's STARS & SETS software
Amazon Price: (as of 05/26/2012)
Reviewed this CD for my column some time ago. I enjoyed it, especially as I like Judy's work.
It's classic and really easy to use.
Another EQ companion CD
get your copy from Amazon
Electric Quilt Company Angie Padilla My Dream House CD ROM
Amazon Price: $19.99 (as of 05/26/2012)
Angie Padilla has some quirky home style patterns for you in this CD.
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for more free lessons
- Quilts at Jan T's Utopia
- ...heaven for quilters
Browsing through Quilts at Jan T's Utopia, you'll find quilt galleries — showcasing quilts by Jan T (Urquhart) Baillie and by her students over the past twenty-odd years. Rea
See Jan T's patchwork school
Learn to make great quilts with Jan T
- Jan T's Patchwork School
- Would you like to learn how to make a quilt? Do you want to improve your existing patchwork skills? Challenge yourself more?
Learn with Jan T Urquhart Baillie, one of Australia's leading patchwork and quilting writers, tutors and columnists. Jan T makes learning about quilting great fun!
Quilting Stencils from EQ
on Amazon
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- I have an older version too. The software looks wonderful!
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- Wow! I'm a little behind. I have EQ4. 8))
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- And why couldn't you? It's so simple. and so much fun!
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- You bad girl! Time to get you up and running. Tell me what you need to be able to do and I'll write a tutorial on the topic. There's some new excerpts from my DUQ column in pdfs on Jan T's Utopia. Have fun!
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Fabulous new version of Eq.
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