More EQ Doodling

It can be fun to play with with blocks by adding a few lines in EQ – no one says you actually have to make them but if you do want to make this block you can download the templates for 6 inch and 9 inch blocks here. As we have looked at the Big and Little Trees block earlier I have been playing with this one – just one result today but you can play along by drawing lines on the block to colour included in the download earlier in the month.

This is just a simple alteration as I have just drawn a couple of diagonal lines across the big tree and straight ones across the little tree. I could have done it the other way about or done both the same but I thought I would leave those to your imagination or let you try it on paper.

You can use both the blocks in a quilt or in a table runner – it can be effective to flip a block or two as well.

I have a new computer and thus a new download of EQ and haven’t yet played with the settings – the black ‘seam’ lines look quite heavy in this mock-up and have made the block look like stained glass, so there’s another idea for you!

EQ Doodling

Our block this month over on chrisandbarbaraquilts is called Big and Little Trees.

These are the default colourings of the block in EQ but we can play around with those a little – here we have just changed the greens and added in a few seasonal fabrics – as it is that time of year we have assumed these trees are conifers / Christmas trees. But they could be any tree so you could make your trees more autumnal and colour them in shades of yellow, orange and russet.

You can download the templates for 6 inch and 9 inch blocks here as well as colouring pages for the block and a quilt.

EQ Doodles and more

The EQ Doodle block this month on our sister site – chrisandbarbaraquilts – is Birds in the Air. But, just as we did with last month’s block, you can split this one into four as well and get two potentially interesting new ‘blocks’ to play with (as well as one not quite so interesting one).

If we put four of the first of these new blocks together and turn them around these are a few of the ideas EQ came up with

And then the second one gives us these possibilities (among others).

And then we decided to try distorting the original block by exaggerating the triangles

then put a few together to see what a quilt might look like

And we didn’t even start on recolouring the blocks . . .

If you want to make the original block, the quarter blocks or the distorted block, or just colour some quilts you can download all the cutting instructions and colouring pages here.

More doodling

Peach Cobbler is this month’s doodle so once again we split it in four and turned those quarters around to see what happened.

From all the different variations we chose number 8

and these quilts we made with it

Then number twelve

and some of its quilts

Finally here’s number 15

and some of its quilts

September EQ Doodles

This month’s block over on chrisandbarabaraquilts is Peach Cobbler. You can download the instructions for both 6 inch and 9 inch blocks here.

This are the default colours and greyscale block from EQ

And then we asked EQ to recolour the block at random. It gave us these (among many others).

More block play

Having done the poor Ohio Star to death we thought we would turn our attention to the blocks that have been appearing in our EQ Doodles series.

Last month’s block was Illusion

But let’s divide it in four and then turn those four quarters around – or in this case just reverse top left and bottom right

Then put that block into a quilt and turn the blocks around.

We can do the same with this month’s Electric Fan block (slightly easier to get a quarter of this block as it is a four patch so you will automatically have four quarters to play with.

August EQ Doodles

This month’s doodle block is Electric Fan – we’re rather hoping it is not so hot that we need to use one of these too often this month. These are the greyscale and default colourings in EQ8.

You can download the instructions to make either an 8 inch or a 12 inch block here. Electric Quilt also came up with some different colours for the block.

You will find more ideas on our sister blog – chrisandbarbaraquilts.

Ohio Star?

We discovered a way to distort blocks in EQ the other day and it seemed mean not to go and play with the Ohio Star blocks we’ve been messing about with the rest of the year.

Just a gentle distort of the star points to begin but then we gradually went more wild!

Not sure we would want to make any of them and the resulting quilts weren’t anything to write home about either – but we had a fun half-hour!

EQ Doodles

Our doodle over on ChrisandBarbaraQuilts this month features a block called Illusion.

This is the original default colouring and greyscale from EQ and you can download the templates to make 8 inch and 6 inch blocks here along with a block and a quilt to colour in.

A brief play with the EQ magic wand gave us these three different colourings

Which make quite different looking quilts

More EQ Play

One of the buttons in EQ8 is ‘Clip and Flip’. This takes a quarter of a block and then flips it in a variety of ways. So going back to our favourite block – Ohio Star – what happens if we use this magic button? These are the first four

But do these look any good in a quilt? Here’s some 4 x 4 block settings to give you an idea

They do look a bit the same. But what if we combine them in pairs?

Slightly more interesting. I think it could be even more interesting with a different block or more adventurous colouring, and also more random turns and flips of the quarter as I didn’t get round to using the random button. Something for another time perhaps. Meanwhile if you want to play with a quarter Ohio Star you can download the rotary cutting instructions for a nine block.