I purchased EQ8 a week ago and wow, does this program do a lot for relatively little money. I've been using tutorials on their EQ blog, which has many, many lessons and tutorials! You can use this program to make t-shirt quilts which have different sized blocks depending on the t-shirts that are used. I used this tutorial to make my first quilt, a small wall hanging. The program gives me printouts of the yardage and rotary cutting instructions, and I use those to then write the pattern. The process to write the pattern takes a lot of time and thought but it is so much fun!
The wall hanging will be 17"x 24" when finished.
I finished the quilt in EQ8 and went right to the fabric shop to buy fabrics to make the quilt! I'm busy writing the pattern this week. As soon as I make the quilt, testing the instructions I've written I plan on making the pattern a pdf file and will post it here on my blog as a free download.
Update April 24: I have finished making the Star Block! It measures 15-1/2" x 15-1/2".
Update April 25: I have assembled my wall hanging! I woke up at 1:30AM thinking about this wall hanging and was writing the pattern in my head. I decided to get up and work on it since I couldn't go back to sleep anyway. The pattern is written, all I need to add is a photo of the finished wall hanging. I need to longarm and bind it now.
Update April 26: I've started longarming the wall hanging, here's a closeup of the quilting on the block...
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