#Blockbase electric quilt co how to#
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To do so, click any block, then click the Add to Project button on the top menu bar.

Block results for “Marriage” Block results for “Pilot” Block results for “Grandmother” You may find blocks for: Marriage… Firefighters… Card players… Fortune-Tellers… Sailors… Pilots… Grandmothers… Baby… Colonial Times… Holidays of all kinds… and dozens, dozens, dozens more categories. This category contains Barbara Brackman’s suggestions for the most typical blocks for every decade - not EVERY block – but the MOST TYPICAL. And as Barbara says, remember, the blocks from a decade or 2 earlier would also be appropriate.īut wait! We mentioned “hundreds of search possibilities.” For fun, spend time using Search by Keyword, and seeing all the categories. IMAGINE: You need Civil War era blocks for a sampler.ĭO IT: Click Search by Keyword again > click the down arrow beneath “Search Category.” Scroll back up to the top and choose Blocks Perfect for Reproduction Quilts. You can see it was published under this name in 1938, and if you want to know more about where it was published, Needlecraft Supply, just click blue source name link. You’ll see the same block is also known as Kindergarten Block – that fits the Teacher theme. But wait! What about some blocks that don’t seem to fit “Teacher?” These blocks all fit the theme of Teacher either in their look (Schoolhouses) or name (The Bell, My Graduation Class Ring). Scroll through them, looking, until you find Teacher.Click the down arrow beneath “Search Category.”.Searching by Keyword lets you search by specific pre-set groups. IMAGINE: Your sister, a teacher, would like a quilt. And they still look fresh and new today. She also designed non-animal blocks.

Prudence Penny designed a group of clever pieced animal blocks perfect for children’s quilts. Being able to quickly find lots of blocks from the same source can be very handy.

Scroll down until you find “Penny, Prudence” and click it.

IMAGINE: You want PERIOD blocks - something no one else has used in awhile.ĭO IT: Click the Search by Source button.Ī block’s “Source” is where it was first published. It’s easy to find blocks based on structure as that’s how blocks are organized in BlockBase. Blocks from many other categories would work as well.

#Blockbase electric quilt co Patch#

IMAGINE: You’re designing a BOM with 12” blocks. To make it easy to sew, you’ve been told to find blocks based on the same grid.ĭO IT: Choosing blocks based on a grid with patch numbers that divide evenly into 12 will keep patch sizes even.Īll Four Patch category blocks will work, as will:Įqual Nine Patch – 13 styles of blocks here Too much! Let’s get help from the Search tools. And BlockBase has 202 different groups of blocks, each with as many as 80 blocks. You see 23 different groups, each based on a Four Patch. So much to browse through. Both have the same blocks, but 2.2 has an updated look. Close the About box. Your BlockBase may look slightly different than the pictured BlockBase in this lesson.

#Blockbase electric quilt co how to#

You’ll also see how to save blocks from BlockBase in a project to open and use in EQ7. This lesson shows how to take advantage of hundreds of special search categories, only available in BlockBase. But they miss out on fun Search possibilities. They use BlockBase as merely an “add-on” with 4000+ more blocks for EQ7. Many BlockBase owners never know BlockBase has such cool Search tools. Take Advantage of Cool BlockBase Search Tools