Special Offers!
Package deals are available if you are wanting to buy a combination of EQ
products. Click here for details!
(If you are looking for EQ5 books, please click here).
EQ6 Simplified - Perfect for the
beginning EQ6 user
Attention EQ6 beginners! EQ6 Simplified, the newest and biggest of our
best-selling “Simplified” tutorials is ready. Popular EQ teacher and author Fran
Iverson Gonzalez holds your hand as you work through step-by-step instructions
in eight fun lessons. It’s like taking classes right in your own home. Fran has
taught thousands of EQ beginners and she’ll teach you too as you design
fabulous, yet simple, quilt designs.
Lesson 1: Turn a basic Kaleidoscope quilt into a starry
sensation. Learn to modify your existing quilts, color, and calculate fabric
yardage. The basic steps learned in this lesson are the building blocks of EQ
software.
New EQ6 feature:
Rotate directional fabrics with a mouse click.
Lesson 2: EQ6 has
pre-designed quilt designs! Create amazing quilts starting with a quick-quilt
project and modifying blocks, fabrics and borders. Work with the new on-point
layout style.
New EQ6 feature:
Print setting triangles as clipped blocks.
Lesson 3: Begin drawing blocks with EasyDraw™. Fussy cut
fabric right on your block while the fabric scales perfectly. Create stunning
multiple border designs.
New EQ6 feature:
Import fabrics from other EQ project files.
Lesson 4: Lesson 4 is packed!
Convert a block into a motif, combine EasyDraw™ and PatchDraw designs, and
create quilting stencils. Learn to use the Graph Pad for precise Layer 3
quilting stencil placement.
New EQ6 feature:
Turn layers on and off to display individual design layers more clearly.
Lesson 5: Ready for some real fun? Play with the Symmetry
and Serendipity tools which make instant changes to your quilt and block
designs.
New EQ6 feature: Add
pre-designed borders using the Auto Borders tool—there’re so many to choose
from!
Lesson 6: More than a quilt top! Design a pieced quilt
backing and add a personalized quilt label. Create beautiful flower patterns
with the Wreathmaker. Print complex foundation patterns.
New EQ6 feature: Use
the Set Appliqué Text tool to personalize a quilt label.
Lesson 7: Make designs move
with a series of high impact borders. Create blocks and motifs with the new EQ6
Rectangle and Ellipse PatchDraw tools. Finish off your quilt with a Prairie
Points border.
New EQ6 feature:
Create a quilt layout from a block design.
Lesson 8: Create dazzling appliqué with PatchDraw. Step
outside the box, designing abstract quilts. Experiment with advanced fabric
rotation.
New EQ6 feature: Use
the Brush Stroke tool in PatchDraw.
The author, Fran Iverson Gonzalez
is a professional quilt designer and teacher who teaches Electric Quilt classes
at Quilt University.com. She is also the creator of the Mystery Quilts on the
Electric Quilt Company website. She has taught for 17 of the 30 years she has
been quilting, including EQ classes at the International Quilt Festival in
Houston, Texas as well as other quilt symposia across the country.
Note: Prices include postage within
Australia - please email for a quote
if overseas.
(13 July 2007: Please note that the book has not yet arrived at Gecko Gully.
An order will be placed on 16 July, and is expected to take approximately two
weeks to arrive. Your credit card will not be charged until we are ready
to ship).
EQ6 Block Book
An illustrated guide to the 4,300 quilt blocks in EQ6.
The EQ6 Block Book helps you locate blocks in the EQ6 Block Library.
The book is organized exactly like the on-screen libraries of EQ6 blocks:
