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Volume 8, No. 1, Summer/Fall 2001
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CONTENTS: Announcements - Ask EQ - Free Stuff - Create Your Family Quilt - Show & Tell - Brenda Brayfield - Quilt University - EQ Computer Lab - Redwork in EQ - Dear Diane.


Redwork in EQ4
by Barb Vlack
Author of EQ4 Magic

Barb Vlack's Redwork quilt One way of showing "redwork" on our quilt designs is by putting a design onto a block in Layer 3 and changing the thread color to red. The only problem is that line drawings of appliqué in Layer 3 will show transparent overlays of various patches and look a little messy.

Here's a "new" and "improved" idea for showing redwork:
  1. Take any appliqué block or motif.
  2. Color all the pieces white.
  3. Save (in Sketchbook and project).
  4. Set in Layer 2.
  5. Click the Thread tool.
  6. Click the red color in the Color palette.
  7. Click your "redwork" block.

We often overlook the fact that we can change the thread color of blocks in Layer 2, though we know we can do that for quilting lines in Layer 3. If you change the outline around an appliqué block, you'll have your outline coloring, and the block will have the colored patches in stacking order. The transparency of the line drawing will be avoided.

You can do the same with a pieced block, if you're interested. You could color all the patches in the block white or you could use the line drawing (because you won't have the transparent stacking that you do in the appliqué block). Either way, after you set the block in Layer 2, you can change the color of the "thread" that outlines the block and patches.

If you are using a line drawing only, know that if you rotate the block or set another block on top of an original one to replace it, you will have to hit the Refresh tool on the left toolbar to get rid of the ghosty first impressions.





CONTENTS: Announcements - Ask EQ - Free Stuff - Create Your Family Quilt - Show & Tell - Brenda Brayfield - Quilt University - EQ Computer Lab - Redwork in EQ - Dear Diane.

 
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