Open EQ8 quilts with lettering, photos, embroidery, curves

Open a quilt from EQ and look under On this quilt, beside it. Lettering, photos and embroidery each have a row there: what it is, where it sits, and Show me where to point it out on the quilt.

Lettering

EQ saves lettering as the shapes of its letters, so we draw it exactly as you made it, even without EQ’s font on your computer. It’s treated as appliqué.

• In the designer, choose the lettering to move it, resize it from its corners (it keeps its shape), and change its Fabric. Turn off Show while I design to see the quilt underneath; it stays on the quilt and in cutting.
• You can’t retype the words. We have the letters’ shapes, not EQ’s font. To take the lettering off, choose Remove the lettering…. Undo puts it back, and your EQ file keeps it either way.
• Cutting: each letter gets its own template at true size. Choose Turned edge or Fusible: for fusible, the letters print reversed.

Photos

We draw each photo from the copy EQ saved, in the place and at the size EQ gave it.

• Photos stay where EQ put them, so the blocks around them still fit. You can’t move or resize one.
• A small copy prints blurry. If EQ kept only a small copy, the photo’s panel says so. Choose Use a sharper copy… and pick the photo from your computer: we fit it to the same size and keep it with this quilt, for you only. EQ’s copy stays in your original.
• Cutting: the Photos tab prints each photo on a fabric sheet at true size, with a ¼″ seam all around. Photos aren’t in the yardage: the plain squares under them are.

Embroidery

• We draw EQ’s embroidery stitch by stitch, in its thread colors, with its size and stitch count.
• We can’t make a file for your embroidery machine. Stitch from the design file you placed in EQ.
• Cutting: squares with embroidery can be cut 2″ larger, to fit your hoop and trim after stitching. The yardage follows.

Curved blocks

EQ saves curves as many short straight lines. Where those lines follow a circle closely, our reader turns them back into true arcs, so the block is drawn smooth and cut from exact templates.

• In the designer, tap a curved block and choose Edit a copy of its shape to change it in the block editor. EQ’s block stays as it was.
• Some curves can’t be drawn by the block editor yet. Then the menu says so: “Drawn with curves the block editor can’t draw yet.” The block still shows, colors and cuts as EQ made it.

For drawing your own curves, see Curved blocks with the Arc tool.

If it doesn’t look right

• A photo says “Not in the file”. EQ placed it, but its picture was removed from EQ’s Sketchbook. We mark where it goes.
• The lettering is in the wrong fabric. Choose the lettering and pick another under Fabric.
• Something else is missing. The quilt’s Import report lists what’s Kept in your original.

Checked against the app on October 26, 2026