EQ6 Appliqué Drawing

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 Pre-Defined Shapes - in this chapter you'll learn how to:

• Use pre-defined 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