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Use EQ6 Appliqué Drawing, Beginner's Guide to Drawing Like a Pro to learn Angie Padilla lessons and you'll have mastered tools that will free you to invent new designs on your own or adapt elements of blocks already in Electric Quilt 6.

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EQ6 Applique Drawing Cover

EQ6 Appliqué Drawing
Beginner's Guide to Drawing Like a Pro
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Author: Angie Padilla
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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.

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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.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
7
My Own Appliqué Journey
8
Inches versus Centimeters
9
EQ6 Upgrade Available
9
Chapters
11
Chapter 1: Back to the Basics
13
Chapter 2: Drawing Simple Lines and Curves
65
Chapter 3: Drawing Two Lines at Once
111
Chapter 4: Drawing with Predefined Shapes
135
Chapter 5: Putting it All Together
169
Chapter 6: Tips and Tricks 213
Index 239
Precision Bar Reference 243
Tools Quick Reference 248


EQ6 Appliqué Drawing

Overview provided by Electric Quilt Company

Learn to draw appliqué from a pro! Angie Padilla, creator of the My Dream House My Dream House an add-on module for EQ5 and EQ6, teaches you from the beginning how to draw and edit appliqué patches to create spectacular blocks.



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



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