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EQ6 Appliqué Drawing
Beginner's Guide to Drawing Like a Pro
Companion Book 4

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Purchasing w/ Electric Quilt 6

Author: Angie Padilla
Pages: 248 pages, (black & white)
Size: 7 1/2" x 9"
Item Code: 4A0100C
Weight: 1.3 lb
10% off: $19.76
MSRP: $21.95
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No prior drawing experience required. Start a beginner—end up an expert! You don't need to be an artist to draw. Angie demystifies drawing by breaking it down into a simple series of steps.

Learn to:

• Draw vines and leaves
• Invent appliqué folk art
• Impart photos to trace
• Design Hawaiian appliqué
• Create feathered quilting stencils from one simple curve
• draw a wedding cake with flowers and over 30 other blocks
• Design an entire quilt—settings triangles, borders, sash blocks, and cornerstones to match—from one simple block

By the time you complete Angie's lessons you'll have mastered tools that will free you to invent new designs on your own or adapt elements of blocks already in EQ6.

Bonus: Download free designs for making mix and match appliqué faces.

EQ6 Beginner
Books Package

1. EQ6 Block Book
2. EQ6 Simplified

Item Code: 4A0100A
Weight: 2.1
20% off: $33.52
MSRP: $41.90

EQ6 (3) Books Package

1. EQ6 Block Book
2. EQ6 Simplified
3. EQ6 Pieced Drawing

EQ6 Draw Books Package

1. EQ6 Pieced Drawing
2. EQ6 Appliqué Drawing

EQ6 (4) Books Package

1. EQ6 Block Book
2. EQ6 Simplified
3. EQ6 Pieced Drawing
4. EQ6 Appliqué Drawing

About the Author

Angie Padilla was born in the USA and raised in Quito, Ecuador. A self-taught quilter, Angie’s initial interest in sewing actually lay in garment making. Quilting slowly started to take over and eventually evolved into a passion. Angie’s parallel love of computers and Internet technology naturally led to the creation of a website which continued to grow over the years and which today showcases her quilt patterns: http://www.ajpadilla.com/

Angie created the My Dream House CD, won the EQ Anniversary contest, and placed second in the Single Maker category for the Do You EQ? Contest.

Chapter 1: Back to the Basics - in this chapter you'll learn how to:

• select and delete patches

• copy, paste and move patches around

• clone patches

• flip patches

• resize patches many different ways

• rotate patches many different ways

• mix patches from different blocks

Chapter 2: Drawing Simple Lines and Curves - in this chapter you'll begin to customize your workspace and learn how to:

• Draw and edit lines

• Work with snapping options

• Draw straight lines

• Use guides

• Draw curves

• Draw curves and lines without changing tools

• Use building blocks as guides to develop a more realistic drawing

• Draw freehand and trace for the first time

Chapter 3: Drawing Two Lines at Once - start using the new EQ6 Brush Stroke tool and learn how to:

• Change the brush stroke style, ends, taper, and thickness

• Draw vines and leaves with the Brush Stroke tool

• Use symmetry to create folk-art designs

• How to use the Precision Bar for brush strokes

• Import blocks from other projects

Chapter 4: Drawing with Predefined Shapes - in this chapter you'll learn how to:

• Use predefined shapes to make quick patches

• Use the Precision Bar to do things faster

• Use the Precision Bar to round rectangles and split circles into wedges

• Make a wreath

Chapter 5: Putting it All Together - use everything you've learned so far to make more complex blocks. You learn how to:

• Import photos to trace

• Trace photos

• How to draw thread lines

• Make complex wreaths, folk-art crossing designs, and Hawaiian appliqué

• Flip and rotate open patches and snap them together to make a complex symmetrical closed patch

• Edit a focus block and create setting triangles, borders, sash blocks, and cornerstones to match

Chapter 6: Tips and Tricks - follow these quick lessons that show you how to:

• Change from square to rectangular blocks

• Turn blocks with a background into motifs that can float on layer 2

• Make overlaid blocks

• Use the wreath feature to make feathered quilting stencils

• Draw complex threadwork designs

Electric Quilt Company

Flagship Software Programs

EQ6 Companion Books

Quiltmaker Magazine
Quilting Designs on CD

Stand Alone & Compatiable with EQ

Using with EQ6

All Quilting Designs patterns can be used in EQ6. This lets you use EQ's design tools on the patterns to:

• color them with thread
• set them into quilt layouts
• edit and combine parts to make new designs
• the Quiltmaker Library links automatically to your EQ6 Block Library

EQ5 &/OR EQ6 Libary Blocks or Design CDs

Foundation Paper Piecing @ the Electric Quilt Company
Software, CDs & Foundation Sheets

EQ Printables
Foundation Sheets
25 Sheets

Sew Precise Collections

**EQ5 or > Required

Kaleidoscope Collection
Designed by Andrea Bishop

Stand Alone

Sew Precise! Col. 3, Shirley Liby Designs

Stand Alone

Sew Precise! Collection 4, Donna McDade Designs

Books with Electric Quilt Companion Software

Stand Alone

Stitched with Love
By Robyn Pandolph
Book with Folk Art theme
Includes Design CD

Other Authors who have created CDs with Blocks for Electric Quilt inspired by books

Quilted Diamonds 2 with DVD
by Linda Franz
Optional EQ Blocks CD

EQ Printable Colorfast Printer Fabric

More EQ Printables for Appliqué, Quilting Overview and Foundation Piecing