A Deep Dive into Electric Quilt 8: Fabrics, Panels & Photos

When asked why they love designing quilts in Electric Quilt 8 (EQ8), most users gush about the ability to see their fabrics in their quilts before making a single cut with their rotary cutter! Originally introduced as a feature in 1999 in the fourth version of Electric Quilt, the tools for fabric importing and editing have continued to be perfected with each version of the software. Today, thousands of EQ users, including fabric designers and pattern makers, use this feature in EQ8 to aid in their design process!

A Deep Dive into Electric Quilt 8: Fabrics, Panels, and Photos contains everything you need to know to get started and then master importing your own fabrics and photos into EQ8 software. An easy-to-follow “choose your own adventure” format lets you select your preferred method for acquiring fabric images—by either scanning, photographing, or downloading from the internet—and then helps you import and edit those images so that the quilt on your screen accurately represents how your quilt will look when it is sewn together. Tips on how to properly scale, straighten, and crop the images allow you to get a true sense of what your final quilt will look like—such as how large and small prints and your color choices all play together!

Readers will also love the easy-to-follow instructions for saving their imported fabrics to a favorites library, where the fabrics can then be easily added to any EQ8 project. Tips for how to fill out the Notecard associated with each fabric will ensure that the EQ yardage calculations can be used as a quick shopping list at the store or in your own stash! Bonus information teaches you the best way to edit images of panels and t-shirts—skills that can then be used to design all types of memory quilts, panel quilts, or quilts from orphan blocks. The booklet also contains a quick reference page that summarizes all the different steps in one place, so you can refresh your memory on any process in minutes!

Each section of this booklet is separated out into fully illustrated, step-by-step instructions, with separate steps for Mac and Windows users, where relevant. Readers will also gain access to supplemental online materials, such as how to work with the latest image file types. Before the quilt in your head becomes the quilt on your bed, visualize the finished design using your own
fabrics in Electric Quilt 8 software!
40 pages.

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