Tutorial - Designing with Electric Quilt

After the tutorial I wrote a few months ago about how to design wreaths using Electric Quilt software, here are a few other ideas to help you draw more complex designs.

Even if you don't have EQ, you can still use some of the principles shown here for drawing your own design on paper.

Let's start drawing this design ( this is one of my shadow trapunto quilts - you can see other designs here).

Start a New Block > PatchDraw, draw some shapes like the ones below and combine them. Select them all, click the right button of the mouse and apply "WreathMaker".
I wanted to make a wreath with 10 clusters.
Depending on how you set the size of the cluster and the space between clusters, you can get different results.
Make adjustments until you are happy with the design.
This is mine:

Save the block

Select from the above design just two clusters and remove all the others.Select them, click on the right button of the mouse and select Symmetry / then Clone/ then Flip H

You will end up with something like this: Select the entire design and apply WreathMaker again ( select Number of clusters=4 ).

I have now this design. I wanted a design with closed clusters so I made a few trials until I get it (I adjusted the size and the space between clusters).

Go to the Color tab and color the backgound.

Now we need other shapes to fill the center. Draw something like this:

Select them, apply again "WreathMaker/Number of cluster=4". The center will look in this way: You can also rotate or resize the selection.

Then I wanted one more design to fill the center. I drawn a circle and applied "WreathMaker/Number of cluster=8"

NOTE
If you want to keep the symmetry of the design, for the next wreaths use a number of clusters divisibles by 4 ( like 4, 8 ,12 ...). Don't use 3 or 5 or 7 clusters.

I reduced the size of the circles wreath.

And this is the design ! It is very easy !

The possibilities are endless.

You can download for free these three designs:

And here are other quilts made using my shadow trapunto technique and the same WreathMaker "wizard" from EQ.

And this is my latest quilt, a combination that kills me: shadow trapunto+ the design made using WreathMaker + a message for someone special !
It was so fun to make the lettering - much easier than making appliques.

I hope you will find this tutorial useful.
If you have questions, please don't hesitate to ask me.
If you will design some wreaths, I will be happy to see them. Please send me a picture !

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