EQ8 Block Spotlight

Welcome to the EQ8 Block Spotlight! Each month we highlight a block from the EQ8 Block Library with a few design ideas. Then we want you to show us what you can do with the block. We hope these posts will inspire you to try something new and expand your EQ skills! Don’t forget to comment on other quilter’s designs too. Let’s build each other up! This month’s block: Lily Wreath Where to find it: 02 Contemporary Pieced > Flora Design ideas to spark your creativity My first quilt is a 3 x 3 on-point layout with two borders. The Lily Wreath block is pretty busy. So I wanted to pair it with a simpler block. On the Block Worktable, I removed the flowers from the four corners of the block to create this variation: My second quilt this month is a 3 x 3 horizontal layout. This time, I edited

Welcome to the EQ8 Block Spotlight! Each month we highlight a block from the EQ8 Block Library with a few design ideas. Then we want you to show us what you can do with the block. We hope these posts will inspire you to try something new and expand your EQ skills! Don’t forget to comment on other quilter’s designs too. Let’s build each other up! This month’s block: Offset Squares Where to find it: 01 Classic Pieced > Five Patch Design ideas to spark your creativity This first quilt is a 4 x 4 horizontal layout with sashing and the Offset Squares block is set in all the quilt center spaces. I drew a block for the sashing to create the points that extend from each block. Here’s what that sashing block looks on the Block Worktable: My second quilt uses a quilt from the Layout Library. It’s Hexagonal –

Welcome to the EQ8 Block Spotlight! Each month we highlight a block from the EQ8 Block Library with a few design ideas. Then we want you to show us what you can do with the block. If you’re a brand new EQ8 user, I hope you’ll join in the fun! This monthly series is great motivation to dig into the software and practice your new EQ8 skills. And if you’ve been using EQ8 for a while, I hope these posts will inspire you to try something new! Don’t forget to comment on other quilter’s designs too. Let’s build each other up! This month’s block: Whirlpool Where to find it: 01 Classic Pieced > Four Patch Design ideas to spark your creativity This first quilt is a custom set layout. It’s an offset layout that repeats three blocks–Whirlpool, Four X, and a star block I drew on the Block Worktable. Here’s

Welcome to the first EQ8 Block Spotlight post of 2025! Each month we highlight a block from the EQ8 Block Library with a few design ideas. Then we want you to show us what you can do with the block. If you’re a brand new EQ8 user, I hope you’ll join in the fun! This monthly series is great motivation to dig into the software and practice your new EQ8 skills. And if you’ve been using EQ8 for a while, I hope these posts will inspire you to try something new! Don’t forget to comment on other quilter’s designs too. Let’s build each other up! This month’s block: Variable Star Frame Where to find it: 02 Contemporary Pieced > Frames Design ideas to spark your creativity My first quilt is a 3×3 on-point layout. All the blocks in this Frames section have a large focal square, which is great for

Welcome to the EQ8 Block Spotlight! Each month we highlight a block from the EQ8 Block Library with a few design ideas. Then we want you to show us what you can do with the block. We hope these posts will inspire you to try something new and expand your EQ skills! This month’s block: Sedona’s Star Where to find it: 03 Foundation Pieced > Holidays – Christmas Design ideas to spark your creativity I love a good Christmas quilt, so I stuck with the red and green coloring from the library for my first quilt. This fabric collection is Pine Valley by BasicGrey, which I downloaded from Moda’s website (here’s how to import fabric images from a website). This is a 5 x 5 horizontal layout, and I paired the featured block with an original block I drew on the Block Worktable. The Sedona’s Star block is in the

Welcome to the EQ8 Block Spotlight! Each month we highlight a block from the EQ8 Block Library with a few design ideas. Then we want you to show us what you can do with the block. We hope these posts will inspire you to try something new and expand your EQ skills! This month’s block: Off-Center 8 Log Cabin Where to find it: 03 Foundation Pieced > Log Cabins Design ideas to spark your creativity I started with a 6 x 6 horizontal layout for this quilt. I played with the Symmetry tool for a bit. Then decided I should mix it up with some curved piecing. So I edited the original log cabin block to add a large arc and deleted all the “logs” inside the arc. Then I replaced half the blocks in the quilt with the new variation. I used a classic black-and-white color scheme for my

Welcome to the EQ8 Block Spotlight! Each month we highlight a block from the EQ8 Block Library with a few design ideas. Then we want you to show us what you can do with the block. We hope these posts will inspire you to try something new and expand your EQ skills! This month’s block: Nine Patch Star Variation Where to find it: 01 Classic Pieced > Five Patch Design ideas to spark your creativity This first quilt is a 4 x 4 horizontal layout. The Nine Patch Star Variation block is set in the four corners of the layout on Layer 1. The fifth block is set on Layer 2 so it could be centered on the quilt top. The rest of the layout is filled with a half version of the block. I drew a diagonal line through the block on the Block Worktable and deleted the lines