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This is the perfect book for beginners who don’t know what or how to draw, as well as designers and teachers wanting to publish or be published.
This is the book you've been asking for. Patti Anderson reveals all her drawing secrets, teaching you the tricks the experts, whose EQ5 designs get published in books and magazines, know. You'll master EQ5's powerful drawing tools, creating blocks you've admired in magazines and quilt shows but never dreamed you'd be able to draw.
Starting with the basics, Patti explains do's and don'ts, and presents dozens of time-saving tips. You'll not only learn to look at a favorite block design and redraw it in EQ5. Patti's easy-to-do lessons will actually free you to create your own original designs.
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Patti begins with CH.1 "Basic Block Drawing". She teaches you the basic skills and tools you'll need to draw blocks such as:
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* Drunkard's Path
* Tree of Life
* Double Irish Chain
* LeMoyne Star
* Sawtooth Star
* Log Cabin
* New York Block
* Simple Paper Piecing
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* Delectable Mountains
* A Block for Border & Setting Triangles
* Hunter's Star
* Nosegay (pictured above)
* 1930's Posy
* Posies in PatchDraw
* Tracing Letters in PatchDraw
* Flower Basket
Once you master the LeMoyne star you can transform it into other designs, such as this Nosegay. Each block you draw is shown with suggestions for variations, so you can build a new library of block patterns.
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The next chapter introduces EQ users how to (CH.2) "Draw with the Advanced Drawing Features". The level of difficulty increases as you learn to draw these blocks:
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* Grandmother's Fan
* Tilted Maple Leaf
* Various Border Blocks
* Sashiko Designs
* Crazy Patch Star
* Random String-Pieced Star
* Lone Star
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* Folk Art Tulips in PatchDraw
* Creating a Folk Art
* Tulip Wreath (pictured above)
* Prairie Point Borders
* Scalloped Borders
* Geometric Border Stencils
* Thin Lines and Curves as Closed Shapes
Learn how to use PatchDraw to create many variations of flowers and leaves. Discover how to use the WreathMaker feature in Electric Quilt 5 to create beautiful new designs!
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Patti continues to raise the ante with CH.3 "More Advanced Drawing". She shows that EQ5 allows quilters to make traditional designs and variations with ease. In this section, lessons include:
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* Using EQ Metafiles in Microsoft Word™
* Traditional Dresden Plate
* Mariner's Compass
(pictured at left)
* Rolling Stone
* Georgetown Circle
* Converting an EasyDraw™
Block into a Motif
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* Circle of Geese
* Star Block with Odd Angles
* Complex Paper Pieced Pattern
Patti's expert instructions teach you to draw the intricate Mariner's Compass with ease.
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You will be challenged in the final chapter, CH.4 "Very Advanced Drawing", allowing everyone to be an EQ5 expert. You'll learn to draw:
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* Radiant Star, including
Center Variations (one of
many pictured at right)
* Giant Dahlia
* Seven Sisters
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* 60° Log Cabins & Pineapple
* Curved Geese
* Perspective Window Frame
* Hexagonal Stars
* 60° Blocks in PatchDraw
Patti reveals her Feathered Star formula, showing you how to locate nodes on the star. Then, by connecting-the-dots, you'll have fabulous feathers!
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See for yourself! Print out and work through a sample lesson on how to draw a Tilted Maple Leaf block from the EQ5 Drawing book. This lesson is a PDF file (Portable Document Format), so you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader software to view it.
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Patti R. Anderson is a professional quiltmaker, quilt teacher, and pattern designer from West Virginia. She currently teaches the advanced and feature-specific EQ classes at QuiltUniversity.com, as well as several other quiltmaking classes. Patti's website, www.patchpieces.com, regularly features free EQ lessons in her “EQ Patch,” to demonstrate to other users how to tap EQ's full potential.
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