EQ8 users get excited! If you liked our first design book for EQ8 (EQ8 Designing Quilts) you’ll LOVE this new design book, EQ8 Designing More Quilts! Watch for it in early September at ElectricQuilt.com or ask for it at your local quilt shops!
Just like the first book, this new book has 8 different authors who each wrote a chapter about a unique type of quilt design.
Chapter topics and authors:
Chapter 1 by Nancy Mahoney
Medallion QUILTS! Learn border tricks used to design striking medallion quilts.
Chapter 2 by Reeze Hanson
Applique QUILTS! Trace a picture of a tile to create an applique block. Designing this quilt is a lot easier than it looks!
Chapter 3 by Lori Miller
Modern QUILTS! Use alternate gridwork to create eye-catching modern quilts.
Chapter 4 by Barb Vlack
Optical Illusion QUILTS! Can you believe that a mathematical formula inspired this quilt?
Chapter 5 by Kristina Brinkerhoff
Orphan Block QUILTS! Design a quilt layout perfect for your leftover blocks.
Chapter 6 by Yvonne Menear
Baby Block QUILTS! You’ll be amazed how simple blocks and layouts can create these stunning quilts!
Chapter 7 by Kari Schell
Panel QUILTS! Learn the tricks for using fabric images in EQ8 to design your next panel quilt!
Chapter 8 by Amy Ellis
Landscape QUILTS! This landscape quilt is based on a mountain-range photograph. You too could design what you see. Be inspired!
Here are a couple peeks into the book:
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Note: It is not necessary to have the EQ8 Designing Quilts book before purchasing the EQ8 Designing More Quilts book. They are independent of each other and offer unique content and techniques.
08-22-2018
6:03 am
Hello,
I live in the Netherlands and I recently purchased EQ8.
I would love the books to be downloadable. Is there a possibillity that this will be an option soon.
Kind regards,
Jolanda van Prooijen.
Excuse me for my mishaps in spelling.
08-22-2018
9:24 am
Hi Jolanda,
The EQ8 User Manual comes free with your purchase as a PDF. You can access it by opening EQ8 and clicking Help at the top.
We currently don’t have plans to make any of the other books downloadable, but I will pass on your feedback.
Just so you know, we do have a retailer partner in the Netherlands who sells the EQ8 books: Quiltplaza. Here’s a link to their website: https://www.quiltplazashop.eu/quiltplaza/home.php?cat=7
08-22-2018
7:08 pm
I think downloadable books would be the best! We travel a lot and with limited space taking a pile of books is not an option. It’s great to have them on your computer. I scanned my last reference manual for EQ8 to take with me when I was away and it would have been much easier to get it as a downloadable book.
08-22-2018
3:44 pm
I also would like to be able to download EQ books. Much easier to travel with a tablet or laptop than a bunch of books.
08-23-2018
3:49 pm
I currently own EQ7. Will EQ8 books, etc. work on the EQ7 format? I have a friend that has EQ6 and she has no trouble using EQ7 patterns, etc.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Genee Smith
08-23-2018
4:30 pm
Hi Genee,
Because the books are written step-by-step and highly illustrated, following the steps will be quite confusing. EQ8 has a completely new interface and is easy to follow on the screen. I’d recommend upgrading to EQ8 since it’s so much easier to use (and right now, the upgrade is on sale, so EQ7 users can upgrade for just $75!) If you don’t want to upgrade, we do still sell lesson books for EQ7 here: https://electricquilt.com/online-shop/category/eq-lesson-books/
08-23-2018
5:41 pm
Can’t wait–just got Matt to help me upload all the latest updates and ready for this new book now!
08-28-2018
7:07 pm
Just responding to the comments above. I understand why ElectricQuilt would not want to have the books available as PDF downloads, but perhaps those customers would be just as happy if you were to make the EQ manuals available for purchase as eBooks for kindle via Amazon? I read a lot of fiction that way, using the free Amazon kindle app on my iPad, and with kindle books I can also highlight and bookmark ebooks. But unlike purchasing a book directly from EQ as a PDF download, customers cannot redistribute kindle books by emailing them to all of their friends or whatever. Personally, I prefer paper copies of my reference manuals so I can hilight, write notes in the margins and put post it flags all over them. Maybe I’m just old school that way!
Looking forward to the release of the new book, by the way.
08-29-2018
12:30 pm
The book sounds great. I may be overlooking patterns available, but I need Nancy Mahoney’s Wild Waves Pineapple Quilt, I am taking the class at Fall Quilt Week in Paducah, but want to make mine a bed size quilt and will need to redesign borders, print more foundation papers, etc.
Thank you.