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Electric Quilt allows us to use a pieced block design as a quilt layout, providing the block is made up of just squares and rectangles.

The design above the design above could be a cushion, or a large quilt if each shape is a block sized piece of fabric, but what happens when you add pieced and/or applique blocks to each of the shapes…

In the design above I have used the same block in each shape, and depending on the block design it could be a very interesting design for a quilt.

The final design for today is ...

Electric Quilt will create straight settings for us if when we tell the program we want 3 blocks by 5 blocks, but there is a way to get custom quilt settings based on any block design which uses right angles … just squares and rectangles.

This is an example of a block made up of squares and rectangles,  with no triangles, or any other angles.

Any pieced or applique blocks can be placed in the new setting …they are resized, and shaped, when placed in the design, EQ doing all the hard work for us.

Your challenge this month is to ...

EQ can turn blocks into quilt settings at the click of a button, but there is a catch. The blocks must be made up of squares and rectangles, no triangles or any other shapes which involve any angles other than right angles.There are quite a few blocks which can be used in the Electric Quilt library, but you can draw your own and add them to your own library.

Today’s virtual quilts have been designed on a setting created in this way, and the one above as well. Below is the same design with the blocks outlined. The ...