Letters are cut
Each letter is an appliqué template at true size, reversed for fusible when you want it, with its fabric in the yardage.
Coming from EQ8
What comes across from EQ8, feature by feature.
We opened 252 real EQ8 and EQ7 project files, 384 quilts, with the same reader that opens yours. Here’s what we draw exactly, what we match, and what we keep safe in your original.
Updated 24 October 2026
Evie’s Quilt
family-quilts.pj8 · 39″ × 48″
- Lettering“Evie”, drawn from EQ’s letter shapes✓ Exact
- BlocksNine Patch, 6 placed✓ Exact
- Fabrics4 solids, beside a color card✓ Matched
384 of 384
Openedquilts open, every layout among them, each with its report.
369 of 384
Nothing to redrawcome across with nothing to redraw.
15
Something to checkhave something to check, and their report names it.
By feature
Everything EQ keeps, and what we do with it.
The same words as the report you’ll get for each of your files.
| What EQ keeps | What we do with it | In the 384 quilts | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Layouts | Straight, on-point, custom, strip, one-patch and baby blocks layouts, drawn piece by piece. | 384 quilts | ✓ Exact |
| Blocks | Drawn from EQ’s own shapes. Curves that are parts of circles come back as true arcs. | 2,532 blocks | ✓ Exact |
| Borders | Plain borders, and pieced borders in every style EQ offers. | 308 quilts plain, 130 pieced | ✓ Exact |
| Sashing | Plain or pieced, with cornerstones. | 91 quilts | ✓ Exact |
| Appliqué | Every piece, at its angle, stretch and mirror. | 100 quilts | ✓ Exact |
| LetteringNew | Drawn from the letter shapes EQ saves, so it looks right without the font. | 37 quilts | ✓ Exact |
| PhotosNew | Drawn from the copy EQ keeps. We say when a copy is too small to print sharp. | 13 quilts | ✓ Exact |
| EmbroideryNew | Drawn stitch by stitch, in its thread colors. | 8 quilts | ✓ Exact |
| Prints | Drawn with EQ’s own swatch, at EQ’s scale. | 270 quilts | ✓ Exact |
| Solids from EQ’s palette | Shown beside the nearest color on a color card. | 106 quilts | ✓ Matched |
| EQ’s picture | Kept with the quilt, and always labelled as EQ’s. | 47 quilts | ✓ Exact |
| Quilting stencils | Kept in your original. Not drawn yet. | 22 quilts | Not yet |
| Thread color lists | The Sketchbook’s lists, kept in your original. | 64 files | Not yet |
Counts are quilts that have the feature, of 384; blocks are counted one by one. One file’s pieced border style, 6 quilts, is drawn piece by piece from this update.
At the cutting table
What EQ placed on top comes with you to the cutting table.
Nothing is quietly left out of the cutting chart. Each thing is cut, printed or stitched, and the chart says which.
Photos are printed
At true size with the seam allowance, as many to a printable fabric sheet as fit, ready to sew onto their squares.
Embroidery is stitched
A page shows where each design goes, and the squares to stitch are cut large so they fit your hoop.
How we counted
Counted, not claimed.
Other tools that open EQ files don’t say what they leave out. We’d rather you knew before you move.
- Real files. 252 EQ8 and EQ7 project files (91 EQ8, 161 EQ7), holding 384 quilts, the kind quilters make and share. We don’t publish the files or their pictures.
- The same reader you use. Every quilt went through the reader that opens your files in the browser, with nothing done by hand.
- Checked against EQ. Where EQ saved its own picture of a quilt, we compared our drawing with it.
- Counted again with every change. When the reader learns something, we run all 252 files again, and this page is updated.
See your own
Open one EQ8 project now, free.
Read its report before you bring the rest. No account, and your file is read in your browser.