Quilterscache has a new block :)

I'm not Kay, but I might be able to help ... I've got my manual and Fran's EQ6 Simplified sitting right here. ;-)

Do you mean change your colors/fabrics globally while in the quilt edit mode? Such as changing all of the left hand triangles on each same block in the same position to a new color or new fabric?

If so, press the control key while you click on the block you want to change with the new color/fabric ...

Or is that not what you mean?

Or do you mean if a fabric swatch is green with white stars I could make that fabric purple with yellow stars?

Hummmm, couldn't figure out what is different -- I don't think we have drawn our stars the same. Mine has a corner (like making a snowball or bowtie) in the middle portion of the top row, and yours has a HST. It sure makes the coloring different!

yup. take any fabric in the library, copy to the palette, change the colours but keep the fabric design the same. then save that into your current palette and save also into the library for future use if you fancy. as i said, i've got EQ4 and its not installed on this new h/d yet so cant really recall the 'how to' bit. check thru the help files tho, should be in there on EQ6 as well or try what was suggested below. j.

"Kay Ahr" Or do you mean if a fabric swatch is green with white stars I could make

WOW!! Now that would definitely come in handy. Tried it in EQ5 and EQ6, but couldn't get that option when I right-clicked on a quilt or on a block. I do have some EQ3 and EQ4 fabric palettes. Were those actual fabrics in EQ3 and EQ4?

i have EQ4 only. i make these changes after loadin fabs in the palette iirc. drag any fabs with the right texture/design on them into your palette.

then from the palette highlight the fabric you want to adjust colours on. then right click on it and left click on 'add colorways' the new box shows up. in the left side use arrows to pick the colour on the design you want to change. then on the right side use arrows to pick the new colour for that one. back to the left, arrow for a different colour to change. again to the right side to pick a new colour for that one. keep doing this thru all the colours you want to change in that fabric.

at any point in the process, with any # of colours changed, you can click the 'add' button and it will be put into the current palette. this will give you a bunch of new colourways in your palette to play with in that block/quilt design. when i do this i usually 'add' lots so i have the choice when i start designing blocks/quilts.

if you want to save any of those into the librarys... after 'add' ing any new colourways to the palette and closing that window... click at top of main window on librarys, then 'add fabric'...adds the new fabs to the library. similar to any other saving of things on the puter there. holler if you get stuck, i've loaded up EQ to be sure i had my version/instructions right for ya. :) cheers, jeanne

"Kay Ahr" wrote...

If I remember correctly, a lot of the "fabrics" in the earlier versions of EQ were virtual fabrics, not scans of actual fabric. Just checked. IF you look in EQ5, Fabric Library, you can see EQ4 and EQ3 fabrics. When you put the cursor on them there is no "pop up" of the name of the fabric. So they aren't "real" fabrics, but ones made up by the staff. Which is probably why you can change the color of them.

HTH, Pati, in Phx

Kay Ahr wrote:

And I made a quilt!!

Also in Quilts in Progress - Kiwi inspecting the latest baby quilt. It now has the borders on, and I hope to get it sandwiched tomorrow, and photos without Kiwi, hopefully! will follow soon.

I went and looked at the kitties and left!! Forgot all about the Bed of Stars!! Finally went back. Don't ya just love EQ? Nice looking arrangement of those stars!

Meanwhile I played with EQ to design a quilt that I had sketched out on paper at the quilt shop. A woman at school last year had given me a panel with 6 ladies. Each part of the panel is 15x22. They are black silhouettes with cream background. So I just kept alternating between the coffee pot, the Bed of Stars, and The Ladies!

Guess I'll have to upload my ladies to Webshots.

havent played with EQ in ages so i'm possibly doing something wrong, who knows. i went to hoffmans fab site, saved a fabric in the right format to use in eq. imported it into the library. got it into the palette. it will go into the pop up window to 'add colourways' but it doesnt show the fabric in the righthand box to make changes. hmmmm. like i said, could be me or not. i found in the past rather than all that messing about importing etc, i'd just use a fabric already there and similar to the texture i wanted and fiddle the colours with that one. usually was close enough to suffice. i did have probs when importing to get the size of the testure on the thumbnail to work right in eq, oh well. close enough there was good enough for me. cheers, jeanne

"nzlstar*" wrote...

Pat, you are welcome!! I enjoyed having an excuse to play in EQ this morning.

And I learned a way to get fabrics from EQ5 to EQ6. I don't quite remember how, but it will come back to me. I'll probably find some simpler way in one of my 9 EQ books!!

I do love to play with color! It's my adult version of the 64 box of crayons, which apparently has gotten up to 96 colors.

Close enough is usually good enough for me too. I just don't like dealing with the solid colors -- they seem so stark! They do save space in the size of the file if I want to email the project to someone though.

The only versions of EQ I have had are EQ5 and EQ6. And I'm still earning them! And I'll probably still be learning them when another version comes out! I just love tinkering with EQ.