I showed this block previously on Instagram, because when I colored it and added to my quilt, I felt like square in the star was too small, so I went back to the block and adjusted the square, I loved how easy it was to change (much quicker than than in EQ7, where each block change felt a bit like starting over). I opened up the large star block in the Block Worktable and added a smaller square to the block, clicked over to the coloring and made it my own: Since part of the fun of EQ8 is making the blocks your own, I decided to tweak the large star first. I used just a standard quilt layout, but EQ8 has many options before you even start adding blocks to a quilt, including options that were not available in EQ7, such as variable block sizes (maybe my Quattro Mini Quilt will became a pattern someday!). I started with an idea of a combination of an Irish Chain and a star block, so I opened a new quilt and chose a star and an Irish Chain from the default EQ8 library (yes, it’s full of traditional blocks just waiting to be used!) So, I wanted to share with you some screenshots of how I designed my latest (coming next week!) quilt pattern with EQ8, in case you were curious how I actually use it.

Although most of those things never made it into quilt patterns, having the ability to try out a block before I ever cut fabric has been invaluable. **This post is sponsored by The Electric Quilt Company**įor the past several years I’ve used Electric Quilt 7 (EQ7) to design not only quilt patterns, but also rounds for the Round Robin Quilt Bee I participated in, for foundation paper pieced blocks I wanted to make, pillows, even bags and pouches.

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