EQ8 Block Spotlight

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

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: Cross 9 Where to find it: 02 Contemporary Pieced > Cross Variations Design ideas to spark your creativity My first quilt is a simple 4 x 4 horizontal layout. I thought the large squares in the corners of the block could use some extra interest, so I used a directional fabric in those patches and rotated using the Rotate Fabric tool. The fabric used in this design is from the Maeve collection by Crystal Manning for Moda. It’s available in the newest Stash add-on. For my second quilt design, I choose to edit the block

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: Folk Art Motif 1 Where to find it: 06 Motifs > Folk Motifs Before you start designing, keep in mind this design is a motif. Motifs work a little differently than blocks. Motifs do not have a background patch, so they can’t be set on Layer 1 of a standard quilt layout. Visit our Support site for more info on setting motifs in a quilt layout. Design ideas to spark your creativity For my first quilt, I made the motif pretty large (12″ wide). I repeated it diagonally across a Custom Set layout and clipped

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: Feathered Star in Star Where to find it: 01 Classic Pieced > Feathered Stars Design ideas to spark your creativity July always puts me in the mood for red, white, and blue! This quilt started with the On-Point Medallions – 28 layout from the Layout Library. I set the Feathered Star in Star block in the large center space and added 5 borders. The quilt is colored with fabrics from the Salute collection by Andover Fabrics. This collection is available in the Stash 2024 Download 01 add-on. It’s not as easy to pick out the