Put in 1 and 1 for the width and height-click ok. It is much easier to work with the blocks if they are an easy size. From here, pick your background and foreground color. Who wants a quilt with no color? Right click on the box. DO NOT PUT IT IN THE CREATE DRAWING HERE BOX. Click it.įrom there, move your mouse to the screen.
Go to Auto Shapes-Basic Shapes-then the rectangle at the top. Now that you have the tools, let’s learn to work with them. See where it says draw and auto shapes? That is the drawing tool bar. If you want to move yours, I think you can just click and drag it to where you want it. Then your toolbar will either show up at the top or bottom of your screen. Following the diagram below go to view-toolbars-drawing. Many of you don’t know the features that the program has…to start off with, you need to make sure that you have the drawing tool bar available for easy access. Yes…the same program you might use to write a letter. I showed graphics like this….Īlthough I have EQ. I get this question asked to me all the time…”How do I make and design quilts on the computer?” I got the question again after I posted the most recent pattern instructions for our quilt “ Peanut Butter and Kelli“. We typically put up new blog post twice daily so there is always something new and fresh here. You have reached an archived free pattern.
