Lesson 2

Placing blocks in a quilt layout!

In this lesson we will learn how to put the 2 blocks from Lesson one in a quilt layout. We will do a layout with sashing, without sashing, and with borders.

Open your file, at the top, click on Worktable, and then click on Work on Quilt.

At the top click on Quilt, then New Quilt, then on Horizontal. You should now have a layout on your board.

The layout shows sashing and one border. At the bottom of your board, click on the Layout tab. A window opens up. With this we can set the number of blocks across and sown that will be in the quilt. Change the 4 to 5 and change the 5 to 6.

You can use your tab key on your keyboard to move from one box to another.

Set the size of the blocks to read 12 X 12. You do not have to do the 0’s, just type the number 12.

The sashing with and height is set for one inch, change this to read 1.5 inches in each box.

Now click on the Border tab at the bottom. This will close the layout window and open a new window. With this box, we will set the number of borders for the quilt, the type of corners for the border and the size of the borders.

For the border style, click the little arrow and a drop down menu appears. You can scroll down to se all the different types of borders you can have. We are going to leave this one set at mitered.

Under Adjust Size, check the box that says ‘All’ if it is not already checked.

It now shows the border to be 1 inch, change this to read 1.5 in each of the 4 boxes.

You’re doing great! We are now going to add a second border. At the top of the small box, click the word ADD.

EQ has now added a second border to your quilt layout. It also shows the second border to be set for 1 inch, change all 4 boxes to read 2 inches.

Good Job!!!!

We will now “set” our 2 blocks in the quilt layout.

At the bottom of your board, click Layer 1.

On the right side of your board you will see a set of boxes with different things on them. You can hold your cursor over each box and it will tell what that box is called. Now, I could take the time to explain how each of these are used but I’m not going to. I think the best way to learn about them is to use them. During our lessons we will learn to use each one of them and even add more to the list.

OK, back to our quilt --- we are now ready to ‘set’ our blocks.

Find the set tool, which is the 4^th one down and click on it. A small window will appear on your board showing the 2 blocks you colored.

Click on the Ohio Star block

Move your cursor to the first empty block at the top left corner and click. You have now placed the Ohio Star in the quilt.

I want you to place the OS (Ohio Star) block in each square on the layout----wait---there is a short cut for this.

Put your curse back over the first block you set, look on your keyboard and find your key marked “Ctrl” (Control), hold it down and at the same time click your OH block. You should now have OS’s in every square on your quilt. Good!

Let’s add the FS (Friendship Star) in every other square.

Click on the FS in the little box. Look on your keyboard and find the key marked “Alt”. Hold it down and at the same time click the second box on the first row. (Right on top of the existing OS block) You now have alternating blocks in your layout! Cool isn’t it?

Click Quilt above and then click save quilt in Sketchbook.

Let’s color the sashing and borders.

Click the paintbrush on the right hand side of your board. Your Fabric window will open. Find a color you want to use for your sashing and click on it. Hold the control key down and click anywhere on the sashing. Half of your sashing is colored, now click an uncolored part, still holding the control key down and the rest of your sashing is colored.

Choose a color for your corner stones and color them using the control key.

To color the inner border, choose a color, hold down the ctrl key and click the border, do the same for the outer border.

Your entire quilt should now be colored. Save in Sketchbook.

We are going to learn one more thing here today.

With you quilt still open, click on the Layout tab at the bottom of your board. In the window that opened, where it says ‘Sashing’ put zero’s in both boxes. Click the ‘Layer 1’ tab again and your sashing is gone.

Notes:

1. If you want to color different parts of your quilt separately, then do not use the Ctrl key. After you have chosen your color, click on the places where you want that color to be.

2. If you make a mistake and set a color in the wrong place, click Edit, then click undo color patch and it will remove the last color patch you added. You can do this removal several times if you have set more than one in the wrong place.

3. If you decide you want to change the colors on one of the blocks, say the OS, then choose your color, hold down the Ctrl key and click on just one section of one of the blocks, this will change the color in all of the blocks, continue coloring that one block till you have it colored the way you want. All of the OS blocks will be the same as the single one you colored.

4. Again, if you want each block to be different; do not use the Ctrl key.

5. You can change the sashing colors, corner stone colors, and border colors just be clicking a new color over them.

6. You can go back to the Layout and Border Tabs and change the sizes to what ever you want.

7. You can also change the layout of your quilt to more blocks, but you will have to add the extra blocks after you make it bigger.

8. You can make your quilt layout smaller also.

Try doing 2 or three color variations of this quilt and save them in the sketchbook.

If you click on view at the top of your board, then click on Sketchbook, you can click on the block tab and it will show your blocks. Click on the Quilts tab and it will show your quilts you made.

HOMEWORK

Yes, there’s homework!

I would like for each of you to combine lessons 1 and 2 by picking different blocks from the EQ Block Library, coloring them and placing them in different quilt layouts.

Lesson 3

We will actually “DRAW” a block!!!!!