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#ELECTRIC QUILT 8 UPDATE PATCH#
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#ELECTRIC QUILT 8 UPDATE PATCH#

I hope this design has inspired you to create more quilts based on the four patch that you can use with your Accuquilt GO! Cutter.This post contains affiliate links. Then use the Accuquilt information to determine what dies to use and how much fabric you need. Remember, you can use the EQ8 rotary chart to help you with the number of patches to cut for each block. I have added a diagram showing what pieces by number you would need from your 12″ Accuquilt Go! Qube to cut for the block. Here is a picture of the EQ8 rotary cutting information for the block from the quilt. I have gathered that information for you for this quilt below. Accuquilt provides a cutting chart reference on their website that will help you translate from Electric Quilt’s traditional method to the Accuquilt method so that you have the extra fabric you need. You can use the Rotary cutting charts to determine how many patches you will need for each of your block and determine the traditional size of the cut patch. Dies like the Accuquilt GO! Qube require additional fabric for fan folding and the irregular die shapes. Electric Quilt was designed using traditional methods of cutting blocks long before fabric cutting dies were introduced. I will share some tips to cut out your quilt. Now you have a four patch quilt designed with EQ8. Use the Rotate tool twice on every other block to add interest. Choose your Goose Trot block and place it in the strips with pieced blocks.

Go to the Design tab > Block Tools > Set Block.

Change the border to mitered and 0.25′ wide. On the two 12′ strips, set the number of blocks along length to 5. you should have alternating sized strips. Change the width to 12″ and leave the length at 60″. Change the width to 9″ and the Length to 60″.

Select and delete three strips until you only have one left.

Let’s arrange this quilt block in a quilt! I used blues and greys to color my block.

Move to the Color tab and color or choose fabrics for your block.

Use the 9″ mark as a guide for the V shape.

Finish drawing the block by adding two flying geese pointed to the right in the bottom right corner.

The center of the V shape will be at the 3″ mark.

Click hold and drag the line tool and lift up when you get to the end of the line.

On the left size of the four patch, draw four flying geese pointed down.

Hint: Click hold and drag the line tool and lift up when you get to the end of the line.

Using the line tool, Click and drag two lines to form an equal basic four patch block using the 6″ marks as a guide.

In the precision bar, make sure the Block Width and Block Height are 12′”, snaps horizontal and vertical are 48, and graph paper cells horizontal and vertical are 24.

From the Home Page, under DRAW BLOCKS, select Draw a block from scratch.

( Hint: Design for the size of dies you have and make adjustments accordingly for size.) I am going to design with a 12″ block since I will be using my 12″ GO! Qube cutting dies.

Lets start with designing the Four Patch block.

Notice the project name Untitledhas been replaced with Goose Trot.

On the Create a new project tab, type in the project name field Goose Trot.

On the left side toolbar, click the New project button.

Right now the project says Untitled – EQ8. The project name appears at the top left of the EQ8 Window. Skillset: Beginner/ Advanced Beginner Size: 51″ x 60″ Skill Builders: In this lesson we will create a 4 patch block, design a quilt and review some tips to cut it out using the Accuquilt GO! die cutting system. You can design a quilt, try on fabrics and play with borders using the power of EQ8, then cut it out with your matching size dies.

#ELECTRIC QUILT 8 UPDATE FULL#

Electric Quilt is full of blocks that use the 4 x 4 grid and that makes them perfect for adapting to be cut out with your GO Qube dies. What you may not know is that the GO! Qube set of dies is based on the most popular type of quilt block, the FOUR PATCH! based upon a simple 4 x 4 grid. Some love the accuracy, others like the speed of cutting out a quilt and many quilters with physical limitations find that die cutting their fabric solves some of their cutting issues and get them back to doing what they love. I am finding more and more folks are using the Accuquilt GO! Cutting system of dies to cut out their quilts. I love to design my quilts with EQ8, it saves me so much time and let’s me really be creative before cutting into that fabric.