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 Volume 6, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1999 View Other Floppy Gazettes |
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CONTENTS: Announcements - EQ4 Simplified - Mailbox - Fabric Scanning Tips - ClubEQ - Ask EQ - Show & Tell - Recognizing EQ Designers - Other Uses for EQ4 - Web Sightings. ![[EQ the Mouse]](../../images/eqfiles.gif)
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EQ (Page 2): Since we introduced the Electric Quilt 4, EQ has been one busy mouse. We hope he answers some of your questions on the following two pages. For more frequently asked questions, see "Tech Support" on our Web site. Q: How do I delete a block from my quilt? A: Choose Undo from the EDIT menu immediately after setting the block. Or, just set a new block over the block you want replaced. Specifically, you can use the Plain Block tool and set a white block to replace the unwanted block. Q: How do I delete a block from layer 2 or 3, or a Country Set quilt? A: Choose Undo from the EDIT menu immediately after setting the block. Or use the Adjust tool. 1. Click on the Adjust tool. 2. Click on the Block you want to delete. It will become selected. 3. Press the Delete key on your keyboard. Q: Can I use one of my Country Set quilts as a "model" to set new blocks into? A: Yes. Get your Country Set quilt showing up on the worktable. With the Set tool selected, set a new block to replace the old block by selecting a new block in the palette, then clicking on the center of the block you want to replace. The new block will pop into the old block's space, replacing it. Continue replacing blocks until you have your new quilt as you like. Q: How do I change thread color on my quilt? A: You can change thread color on an appliqué motif (changing the color around the appliqué motif, as if the appliqué was sewn on with colored thread) in layer 2 or a quilting stencil in layer 3. Here's how to change the thread color: 1. Have your appliqué motif on layer 2, or your quilting stencil on layer 3. 2. Have the layer 2 tab or the layer 3 tab selected, depending on which layer you are working on. 3. Click on the Thread Color tool. The Fabrics & Colors palette appears. 4. Click on the palette to select a color. 5. Click on the appliqué motif or the quilting stencil (on the quilt). The thread color changes to your selected color. To change color on all motifs or stencils at once, hold down the CTRL key as you click in step #5. Q: How do I set and rotate blocks or change quilt block size in a Country Set quilt? A: Use the Graph Pad. 1. Have a Country Set layout on the worktable. 2. On the VIEW menu, click to put a check in front of Graph pad. You'll see a gray toolbar pop onto the bottom of your screen. Drag the mouse on your quilt to set a block. 3. Click on the Adjust tool. 4. Click on the block you want to adjust. The Graph Pad will "come alive," showing you numbers. These numbers show you the size, rotation, and position (on the quilt) of the selected block. The Graph Pad is used to make fine adjustments to blocks on layers 2 and 3 and to blocks on layer 1 of a Country Set quilt. The Graph Pad updates automatically when you adjust the selected block with the mouse. When you change one of the controls on the Graph Pad, the corresponding position, dimension, or property of the selected block is adjusted to the new value. For full, illustrated, information on using the Graph Pad, see the EQ4 Help files: In EQ4, on the HELP menu, choose EQ4 Help. Double-click on Designing a Quilt. Double-click on Designing a Country Set Layout. Open and read these two topics: 1. Using the Graph Pad on a single block. 2. Using the Graph Pad on multiple blocks at once. Q: How do I delete a project? A: You can delete projects from the Win 95/98 Desktop, or from inside EQ4. From your Win 95/98 Desktop you can delete one, or many, projects: 1. Double-click on My Computer. 2. Double-click on C: drive (or the drive on which you installed EQ4). 3. Double-click on the EQ4 folder. 4. Double-click on the PRJ folder. 5. Click on the project you want to delete. (Or, hold down your keyboard CTRL key as you click on project after project.) 6. On the FILE menu, choose Delete. You will be asked if you are sure you want to send the project(s) to the Recycle bin. 7. Click on Yes. From EQ4 you can delete one project at a time. 1. On the FILE menu, choose Open. 2. Click the folder in the bottom-left marked "Click here to open a project not listed above." This takes you to where you can navigate through Windows files. 3. Click on the project you want to delete, to highlight it. 4. Press your keyboard Delete key. You will be asked if you are sure you want to send the project to the Recycle bin. 5. Click on Yes. Q: Is there going to be any way to add new fabric lines to the program? A: Yes. We will be producing EQ4 Fabric CDs as accessories for EQ4. These CDs will contain thousands of new fabrics to update the fabrics currently on the EQ4 CD. Watch our Web site and the next issue of the Floppy Gazette for more information. Q: How can I make pieced sashes? A: You can set any block from the Block Library into a sash space in your quilt layout. The square block will stretch to become a rectangle and fill your sash. Tip: Try blocks from the Classic Pieced - Simple Blocks style. You can also draw your own pieced sash. To do this, change the drawing square into a rectangle, and draw the block the same proportion as your sash. 1. First, set up your quilt layout, noting your sash dimensions. You will know the width = the width you set for the sash on the Layout tab. You can figure out the length by noting the horizontal size of the block on the Layout tab. 2. Next, see the EQ4 Design Cookbook recipe "Drawing a Rectangular Block" on page 66. Draw your block and save it in the Sketchbook. 3. Set your sash block into your quilt layout. The block will be square (and look odd) in the Sketchbook, but will look fine when you set it into your rectangular sash space. 4. To print the block, or templates for the block, click on the Select tool, click the sash, choose FILE - Print - Print Block (or Templates). Q: How do I change an apple block into an "apple core" as shown on page 77 of the Design Cookbook? A: Get the block from the library (Contemporary Appliqué - Garden Blocks). Open the Sketchbook, click on the Apple block, click on the Edit button. Your apple will now be on the PatchDraw worktable. To change the apple to an apple core, you cave in the apple sides: 1. Click on the Bezier Edit tool. 2. Click one side of the apple. The line will become selected and you'll see handles. You can now change the curvature of this selected line between the two nodes. 3. Drag the handles to make the apple side concave, so it looks like the picture on page 77. 4. Repeat steps #2 and #3 to cave in the other side of the apple. You'll now have an apple core block. Click the Save in Sketchbook button. CONTENTS: Announcements - EQ4 Simplified - Mailbox - Fabric Scanning Tips - ClubEQ - Ask EQ - Show & Tell - Recognizing EQ Designers - Other Uses for EQ4 - Web Sightings. |
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