Download or read book EQ8 Lessons for Beginners written by The Electric Quilt Company and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This step-by-step lesson book is the best starter book for learning EQ8 software. The lessons are easy to follow and cover the basics of each of the three main worktables of EQ8. You will design quilts, draw blocks, import fabric scans, print patterns and calculate yardage estimates.Even if you've owned earlier versions of EQ, this book will introduce new features, while refreshing and energizing your approach to quilt design.In this book, you will:- Get an overview of the workspace- Use and build your own libraries- Design basic quilts using pre-set layouts- Design custom quilts with blocks of different sizes- Create quilt labels- Use photos to design t-shirt quilts- Straighten, scale and crop fabric photos from a scanner or camera- Edit blocks from the library to create new blocks- Draw new blocks, pieced or applique, from scratch- Create blocks using Serendipity- Print as templates, foundation patterns or rotary cutting charts