Use CTRL+V (Command+V) to paste the Farmer’s Wife libraries. Navigate to: (My) Documents > My EQ7 > USER. Hold down your keyboard SHIFT key, click on one file, and then the other. Double-click the User folder to open it. Double-click the My EQ6 folder to open it. With the Farmer’s Wife Sampler Quilt Companion CD for EQ6 still in your CD ROM drive, click START > Computer > right-click the CD drive > click Open. Linking Farmer’s Wife’s fabrics and blocks to EQ7 (PC) In the center window click My EQ7> then click PJ7. In the “Save in:” box (at top) click the down arrow and then click (My) Documents. Once you have opened Farmer’s Wife as a project in EQ7, you can save the EQ6 Farmer’s Wife project as an EQ7 project. Saving Farmer’s Wife as an EQ7 project (PC or Mac) At the bottom of the box, click the arrow beside the “Files of type” window and click “Previous EQ versions.” (The project is from a previous EQ version, EQ6.). Double-click the PJ6 folder to open it. You will see two folders: My EQ5 and My EQ6. In the “Look in:” window at top, click the down arrow and navigate to your CD ROM drive. Click the “Click here to open a project not listed above” file folder at the left corner. Click the “Open an existing project” tab. Put the Farmer’s Wife Sampler Quilt Companion CD for EQ5 and EQ6 into your CD ROM drive. Opening Farmer’s Wife as a project in EQ7 (PC or Mac) This product was not produced, nor sold by The Electric Quilt Company.įarmer’s Wife can be linked to EQ7 so you can use its blocks and fabrics in EQ7 projects as well as edit the Farmer’s Wife quilt. I've never done much with borders except for one Ebook I did.Farmer’s Wife is a CD-ROM developed by Laurie Aaron Hird for use with EQ5 and EQ6. I love love love my EQ!! I was thinking last night I want to set up a quilt (using my shortcuts of course) and play with adding blocks in hte borders around the quilt. I am trying to get projects and quilt blocks posted for people and tutorials of course LOL I use my EQ for all of it. I also started my own group on FB called Rhonda's Shortcuts. I have been using my EQ to create BOMs using my shortcut methods for a FB group I belong to. my email is I have a lot of stuff I need to get added to my website. I am always available if anyone has any questions or needs help. I like the way it works and I am used to it. I didn't get through all of EQ7 and some day I should go back and finish out the rest of the bells and whistles. #Electric quilt company eq7 how to#
I had heard a lot of people saying they had EQ but hadn't the least idea how to use it. I am a visual learner and so I see things in pictures. Thanks for the compliment Rogue I appreciate it. Brown, Editor-in-Chief, American Quilter magazine There are several colorations of the block in the file. My block size is 12" square, but you can resize your block in EQ if desired. EQ7 users can click on this link to open the PJ7 file, then save it on your computer with your other PJ7 files. The block, which I've named Gemstone, is sewn in a variety of old and new fabrics.
This is the first completed block for my quilt, and I'm happy to share the pattern with other EQ7 users. Those fortunate enough to attend the exhibition said it was breathtaking.Īs a user of EQ7 design software, I decided to design my own red-and-white quilt with all original blocks. The quilts were on loan from the collection of Joanna S. Like so many other quilters, I was tremendously inspired last spring when the American Folk Art Museum exhibited 650 red-and-white American quilts in the Park Avenue Armory, the largest-ever exhibition of quilts in New York City's history.