EQ8 Lessons with Lori

            Quilting friends, I am excited to share that we are releasing FIVE MORE GO! Qube Block Add-ons for EQ8! That’s right, there are five additional Block libraries offering hundreds more blocks that you can easily design within EQ8 and then cut out with your AccuQuilt GO! Qube dies and cutters. Each of these five, easy-to-use block libraries will work with any size Qube. When you combine Electric Quilt® software with your AccuQuilt® GO! fabric cutter and GO! Qube dies, you have the perfect mixture of creativity and precision! We released the first Block Library in October, and the reception has been so welcoming. If you missed it, you can read more about the GO! Qube Mix & Match, Plus Corners and Angles HERE! Without further ado, let me introduce you to each of the NEW Block Libraries now available.   1 – Fabulous Four

        The first new EQ8 Block Library for AccuQuilt is here!  It is the AccuQuilt GO! Qube® Mix & Match Plus Corners and Angles. Combining Electric Quilt® software with your AccuQuilt® GO! fabric cutter and GO! Qube dies provides the perfect mixture of creativity and precision!   This block library contains 216 quilt blocks originally published in the AccuQuilt GO! Qube System Catalog. Designed to work with the GO! Qube Mix & Match set and Companion Corners and Angles, these blocks are now conveniently included in this EQ8 library of blocks. They are so easy to use – the Blocks install right into your EQ8 Block library!   AccuQuilt add-ons for EQ8 are compatible with GO! Qubes of ANY size! Finished block sizes will match the GO! Qube size you use. The important part is how you set up the block size in your layout when designing your quilt to

          I am so excited to introduce a new project with Electric Quilt, AccuQuilt, and Lori Miller Designs! Since so many quilters have enjoyed my EQ8 Add-ons for AccuQuilt, the Electric Quilt Company and AccuQuilt have partnered with me to revamp my block downloads and make them official EQ products sold on both of their websites! If you are new to my EQ8 Add-ons for Accuquilt, let me share a little about them. Back in 2019 when I first started this adventure, I just wanted to have my own library of blocks in EQ8 that could be easily cut out with AccuQuilt dies. I loved designing my own quilts and EQ8 made it so helpful to see my fabric choices.  When I combined my quilt designs with the accuracy and time saving of cutting out the pieces with my AccuQuilt die cutting machine and dies, I

          This post focuses on Beginner Basics for new EQ8 Users.  If you are new to EQ8, learning to save your design work is a big deal.  There is nothing more frustrating than designing a quilt block or quilt and then not being able to find it or thinking it has disappeared.  As I teach Beginner EQ8 classes across the country, I find Saving your Projects and Designs to be one of most important beginner basics to learn.  In this lesson, I am going to try to demystify projects and sketchbooks and how to save those precious designs. When you first open EQ8, it opens an UNNAMED project.  You can always tell the name of the project by looking in the top left for Windows and hovering on the top center for Mac.  It will say Untitled-EQ8. This is a fresh new Project with only default

Hello EQ8 Friends!  In this post I am sharing a great idea to use a variety of themed blocks and organize them using a Horizontal Strip Quilt.  Horizontal strip layouts are made up of long horizontal pieced or unpieced “strips.”   Strip Quilts can be very versatile adapting to different sized blocks easily.  I often use this layout for a Row by Row Quilt.  If you use the Magic of  Layer 2, you can even break the rules for block placement.  Let’s explore Horizontal Strip Quilts. Barnyard Day Quilt Skillset: Beginner/ Advanced Beginner Size: 62″ x 51″ Skill Builders: Learn how to setup a Horizontal Quilt Explore plain, pieced and spaced squares strip styles Use the Magic of Layer 2 to creatively place blocks  Let’s design the Quilt. Open EQ8. Let’s name the Project.  The project name appears at the top left of the EQ8 Window. Right now the project says Untitled

Welcome back to the Hexagon quilt design adventure!  In this final lesson we are going to explore using the Custom Quilt layout to design a Hexagon quilt.  This blank canvas will allow us to essentially build a Hexagon quilt that can be assembled with English paper piecing or EPP.  This can open up a myriad of possibilities and let you step out of the box in your design.   Hexagon Quilt Layouts Part 3 is the last post in the Hexagon series.  If you need to catch up, check out my previous posts here:    Designing Pieced Hexagons    Hexagon Quilt Layouts Part 1  Hexagon Quilt Layouts Part 2 Hexagon Quilt Layouts Part 3 Skillset: Intermediate/Advanced User Skill Builders: Build applique blocks using EPP shapes Create a hexagon quilt layout using Custom Set Lets review information about the hexagon shape. The hexagon shape is a six sided shape whose overall dimensions are

Hello!  Are you ready for more Hexagon quilt layouts?  In this lesson we will look at a couple of ways to add hexagons to a quilt using square and rectangular blocks.  These two layouts are both great ways to highlight your pieced hexagons but a plain one will do too.  If you have not had a chance to follow along on my Hexagon adventure, be sure to check out these previous posts.    Designing Pieced Hexagons    Hexagon Quilt Layouts Part 1 Hexagon Quilt Layouts Part 2 Skillset: Beginner / Advanced Beginner Skill Builders: Create a hexagon quilt layout using square and rectangle blocks Use the Magic of Layer 2 Lets review information about the hexagon shape.   The hexagon shape is a six sided shape whose overall dimensions are not square. The hexagon above is oriented horizontally with the flat sides on the top and bottom. Hexagons are measured by