I've spent most of the day fighting a losing battle with EQ5.
I'm trying to design a sampler quilt using the Autumn Journey fabrics.
I have pictures of all the fabrics in BMP format. I import them into the fabric library, and they actually appear in the list/table of colors. But, when I go to color a block or a piece in a block, whether it's a block I have drawn myself in easy draw or a block I have copied from the blocks library, it doesn't work. If I use the solid colors in the fabrics it works fine, but it won't let me color anything using the fabrics I have imported.
Also, the drawing board set up for a new block won't let me change the number of divisions that the block is divided into for drawing lines.
Does any of this make sense to anyone? What am I doing wrong?????
Please help me before I give up on this project from pure frustration!
Heres the explanation of how to change the grid from the Design Cookbook, Page 89. (When you start a new block there is no grid on it until you do the dragging bit, so you are starting this with the new block completely blank except for the dots for the snap to points, see further on about matching the grid to the number of snap to points)
"1. On the WORKTABLE menu click Work on Block.
On the BLOCK menu, point to New Block, click either EasyDraw or Overlaid (EasyDraw for Pieced Block, or combination of pieced and applique choose Overlaid).
Now this is the important bit - go to the Grid Tool (the little button on the righthand side of the screen with a little grid on it. If you look carefully there is a little black square in the button's bottom lefthand corner (it is tiny!)
Carefully click the dot and you get a little box where you can change the number of columns and rows.
Move your cursor to the blocks left hand corner and line up the crosshair with the corner of the block. Click, hold and drag the mouse diagonally across the block to the opposite corner and the grid forms as you draw."
It also gives a tip - Make sure the number of grid divisions divides evenly into the number of snap to point. eg. don't drasw a 5 x 5 patch grid if you have 24 x 24 snap to points. Instead increase the snap to points to 25 x 25 (on the BLOCK menu choose Drawing Board setup).
If you use the help button, enter 'Changing the Grids Patch Number' then 'Block Menu' then from the list on the right in blue choose 'Grid Setup'.
Now the imported fabric.
Us5. Click copy. The fabric swatch will disappear from the Library and now be in the Sketchbook as well as the Fabrics palette already there. The new fabric will be the last swatch in both the Sketchbook and on the palette.
On the Fabric Libraries box, click the Close button. You will be returned to the worktable.
If you use the Help Button at the top of the screen go to Importing Scanned Fabrics and then User Libraries for Fabric.
I've gone to EQ6 now with the update, but found the Cookbook for EQ5 (it came with the program) really useful. EQ6 has a better Help, and does the Instruction Book slightly differently - its much bigger than the basic one that come with EQ5, but I did like the Cookbook!
Hope this solves at least a bit of your frustrations!
With the sizing of the fabrics, I seem to recall that somewhere the instructions say go into Paint (which I never use normally) and adjust the size in there.
I'm about to go out so can't look now, but if you like, I can do it later.
Look in your EQ5 Design Cookbook, on pages 158-159 and 164 tell you how to scan fabrics and import them into your libraries and projects. If you don't have the book handy, I'll email you the details. Mickie
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