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Easy EQ Holiday Card
Print Right from EQ4
by Diane McEwen-Martin

Here's a lesson on making and printing holiday cards on your computer right from EQ4. No exporting. So quick and easy.

1. In EQ4, name a new project: CARD.
2. click LIBRARIES - Block Library. Click on and copy letters to spell out Happy Holidays. Copy whatever holiday blocks you'd like for the rest of the card. Open the Fabric Library and copy whatever fabrics you'd like.
Suggestions

Letters	1 Classic Pieced/Alphabet (Modified)
Designs	3 Paper Piecing/Holiday Foundations 5 Contemporary Appliqué/Rita Denenberg Christmas/Hanukkah 5 Contemporary Appliqué/Christmas
Fabrics	Fabric Library/EQ Libraries/EQ3 Designer Fabrics/Benartex/Favorite Things Fabric Library/EQ Libraries/EQ3 Packet Fabrics/Homespun Holidays Fabric Library/EQ Libraries/EQ3 Packet Fabrics/Cranberry Christmas STASH Fall 1999/Benartex/Northern Lights STASH Fall 1999/Benartex/Twelve Days of Christmas STASH Spring 2000/Northcott/Polar Pals

3. On the WORKTABLE menu, choose Work on Quilt.
4. On the QUILT menu, point to New Quilt, choose Horizontal or Country Set.

Horizontal Set Example

5. Click the Layout tab. Block number: Vertical - 4; Horizontal - 8 (count the number of letters in your longest word and set this number. Block size = 10. Sashing = 0
6. Click the Borders tab. Border style = Corner Blocks Size of border = 5
7. Click the Layer 1 tab. Set blocks into the block spaces, and border corners as desired. Rotate border corners as needed. Color blocks and borders. Save in Sketchbook. Save in Project.


Country Set Example

5. Click the Layout tab. Block size = Width 8.50; Height 11
6. Click the Borders tab. Size of border = 0
7. Click the Layer 1 tab.
8. Click the Paintbrush tool. Color the whole quilt the color you'd like for your card background.
9. Click the Layer 2 tab.
10. Click the Set tool. In the Sketchbook blocks palette, click on the alphabet letter block you want first.
11. Point anywhere on your quilt top, then drag the mouse. A box forms. Your letter block pops into the box when you release the mouse. Don't worry about block size and placement yet.
12. Follow step 11, and set the rest of the letters for your first word. Don't worry about size and placement.
13. On the VIEW menu, have the Graph Pad checked. If it is not checked, click to check it. This puts the Graph Pad on
14. Click the Adjust tool.
15. On the quilt, click the H letter you set. Look at the Size numbers in the Graph Pad. Make these: 1.50 x 2.00. This resizes the block.
16. While the block is still selected, hold down your keyboard SHIFT key as you click on the other letters of your first word. They will all select.
17. Click the Same Size button. All selected blocks will resize to the size of the FIRST block (H, in our example) selected.
18. Next, we'll position letters. Click on the H block, to select it.
19. Note: To position the block, click on the Position arrows. Our example has 5 letters, so we will make the numbers read: .50 (on top) 1.50 (bottom). The H block moves as you click the arrows.
20. Click each of the other letters in your first word and position each according to these numbers. A: 2.00 (top) 1.50 (bottom) P: 3.50 (top) 1.50 (bottom) P: 5.00 (top) 1.50 (bottom) Y: 6.50 (top) 1.50 (bottom)
21. Click the Set tool.
22. Set the letters of your second word, following step #11, above.
23. Click the Adjust tool.
23. Resize one letter, making it 1.00 x 1.25, using the Size arrows, as in following step #15.
24. Hold down your keyboard SHIFT key as you click on the other letters in your second word.
25. Click the Same Size tool.
26. Position the letters by clicking on each letter in turn, and clicking the position arrows. In our example, using "Holidays," the positions would be:
H: .25 (top) 4.50 (bottom) O: 1.25 (top) 4.50 (bottom) L: 2.25 (top) 4.50 (bottom) I: 3.25 (top) 4.50 (bottom) D: 4.25 (top) 4.50 (bottom) A: 5.25 (top) 4.50 (bottom) Y: 6.25 (top) 4.50 (bottom) S: 7.25 (top) 4.50 (bottom)
27. Click the Set tool.
28. Click the Tree (or whatever block you like) in the Sketchbook palette.
29. Set three blocks onto your quilt, following step # 11.
30. Click the Adjust tool.
31. Resize one block, making it 2.00 x 2.50.
32. Hold down the SHIFT key and click the other two blocks, to select them.
33. Click the Same Size tool.
34. Position the center block by clicking on it, and clicking the Position arrows to make it read: 3.25 (top) 7.50 (bottom)
35. Click the tree block to the left.
36. Rotate the block by clicking in the rotate box and typing: -15 (the minus sign makes the block rotate counterclockwise). While the block is still selected, drag it to position it where you'd like it.
37. Click the tree block to the right.
38. Rotate the block by clicking in the rotate box and typing: 15 (the block will rotate clockwise). While the block is still selected, drag it to position it where you'd like it.
39. Click the Paintbrush tool. Color your blocks as you'd like.
40. Save in Sketchbook.
41. Save the project.


Printing the Horizontal or Country Set cards

1. On the FILE menu, click Page Setup.
2. Set the margins to these sizes:
Left: 4.50 or 4.75 (Note: You may need to play with this margin. Increase it if your quilt comes too close to the fold line of your test printout) Right: .5 Top: 6.00 Bottom: .25 (Note: You may need to play with this margin. You do not want the bottom footer words to print. But your printer determines how small your margin may be.)
3. Click OK.
4. On the FILE menu, point to Print, click Quilt.
5. On the Print Quilt box: Un-check "Print Name" Check "Showing Fabrics"
6. Print a test page. Fold the print page horizontally in half. Then fold it vertically, forming the card. If the left edge comes too close the the fold line, increase the left margin in step #2 and test print again.

Thanks to EQ staff member Diane McEwen-Martin for this idea and design.

CONTENTS: Announcements - Ask EQ - Free Stuff - Stitched With Love - STASH Fall 2000 - Works For Me - Benni Harper Lessons - Show & Tell - Author! Author! - BlockBase - EQ Holiday Card - Quilt University - YesUCan - Perfect Tool.