Electric Quilt is not just Electric Quilt!
I have been reviewing computer programmes which are of interest to quilters for almost twenty years. I write about them in my Computer Quilts column in Down Under Quilts magazine.
Let me show you some of my favourites, and how good they are to use in your patchwork and quilting efforts.
All images of EQ software and website are the property of The Electric Quilt Company. Used with permission
Electric Quilt: Now at version 7
Get yours at Amazon
Electric Quilt 7
Amazon Price: $189.95 (as of 06/03/2012)
Electric Quilt 7 The best quilt design programme in the world! And I'm not the only one who thinks so. I love playing with blocks and quilts in EQ7
I use EQ to design quilts
for my students, for my writing
This design is part of a class on Jan T's Patchwork School, where students learn to design using the Jewel Box block, a traditional patchwork block.
The class is called Jewel Box Quilt Design, and all the block images and the quilt variations were designed in EQ and then exported for use on the web. All without leaving EQ!
You can import an image into EQ
and trace it for an applique pattern
What is paper foundation piecing?
a really great way to make complex blocks
Paper foundation piecing is where you print or draw a design in reverse on a piece of paper, and then you sew patches together using the seam lines on the paper to create your patchwork block.At first I found this really difficult, as it was all "back to front and inside out".
But when I used to have to show people how to use the software, I developed my own method of sewing paper foundation piecing. I call it 'sewing on the line'.
And the quilt with the fish
that Angela made for my book, A Moment in Time
Basket block (pattern from Sew Precise)
from The Basket Quilt
Sew Precise! software and papers
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BlockBase V2
a great reference tool
But it's so much more than that!BlockBase is an encyclopaedia of more than 4000 patchwork blocks. The programme is based on the book by quilt historian, Barbara Brackman
One of my favourite features is to search for a quilt block in a theme, say accountant.
The blocks that come up in the search results are all blocks with names that might apply to an accountant. What fun!
BlockBase
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Blockbase Pieced Quilt Patterns By the Electric Quilt Co.
Amazon Price: $186.00 (as of 06/03/2012)
BlockBase has virtually every pieced block published from 1836-1970 - over 4000 patterns, ready to print as patterns. The Electric Quilt Company has added hundreds of blocks to BlockBase to make sure it contains all pieced blocks from historic collections. It's easy! Find a block - click on it - choose Print - type the pattern size you want.
Block Books from EQ
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Have fun with these blocks
buy for your freind so you can share!
EQ5 AnglePlay Blocks
Amazon Price: (as of 06/03/2012)
Margaret J. Miller's new Half-RECTANGLE Triangle shape will open a world of inventive design possibilities - now you can play with these designs in EQ
Baltimore style blocks
More of my EQ lenses
Have fun!
Kaleidoscopes Galore!
Get this one for yourself from Amazon
Kaleidoscope Collection
Amazon Price: $14.50 (as of 06/03/2012)
Add-on for Electric Quilt 5 (EQ5) or Electric Quilt 6 (EQ6). This CD includes over 500 kaleidoscope style foundation blocks. Huge variety of styles: stars, compasses, pinwheels, flowers, and more. Easy-to-sew, print any size, these blocks are ready to recolor and set into layouts. Enough blocks for hundreds of projects! Requires EQ5 or EQ6. Made in USA.
I loved the designs and the quilts in this programme.
You can use it in EQ7 too!
Dear Jane design software
Buy on Amazon
Dear Jane Quilt Design Software
Amazon Price: $41.70 (as of 06/03/2012)
Like country quilt patterns?
buy yourself a gift
Electric Quilt Town and Country Patchwork
Amazon Price: $11.84 (as of 06/03/2012)
Learn from popular authors, Myra Harder and Cori Derksen, as they share their charming designs plus step-by-step instructions for paper piecing. Use the designs as Cori and Myra suggest, or add your own personal touches.
Amy Butler designs
Treat yourself!
The Electric Quilt Amy Butler Software A-AMYEQ
Amazon Price: $19.70 (as of 06/03/2012)
Software features 22 unique and stylish projects for the home: eight quilts, three table runners, seven pillows, one floor cushion and three bags, plus nine bonus projects. All with clear, step-by-step illustrated sewing instructions for all skill levels. Print patterns, yardage charts and sew!
Quilters Newsletter: The Best of 2007 software
Treat yourself to a wealth of patterns
Electric Quilt Best of 2007 Quilters Newsletter Quilting Design Software CD-ROM
Amazon Price: $20.49 (as of 06/03/2012)
Make these beautiful quilts exactly as they appeared in Quilters Newsletter. Or use the software to design your own quilts. It's easy!
Designed in Quilt Design Wizard
very powerful, very simple to use
Quilt Design Wizard website
a wizard at your fingertips
- Quilt Design Wizard Home
- Check out the quilts our users have created!
Learn how you can create your own quilt designs using Quilt
Design Wizard™!
Don't miss the September free download. "Pumpkin Patch"
Get your own copy
of The Quilt Design Wizard
The Electric Quilt Co. Quilt Design Wizard-
Amazon Price: $17.43 (as of 06/03/2012)
If you want a programme that is so simple to use, gives you sewing instructions, and has over 200 blocks, look no further than the Quilt Design Wizard.
While you can't draw your own blocks, or edit any of the library blocks, you have plenty of scope for designing quilts using the blocks that exist in the programme.
EQ6 Companion Book 4: Applique Drawing
Best ever applique drawing book for EQ
EQ6 Appliqué Drawing (Beginner's Guide to Drawing Like a Pro by Angie Padilla, EQ6 Companion Book 4)
Amazon Price: $14.00 (as of 06/03/2012)
Wrote about this great book in my Computer Quilts column. Had fun with the lessons and learned heaps!
Bonus files for you
From the book
EQ6 Companion Book 4
Drawing in EQ
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The Electric Quilt Co. EQ6 Pieced Drawing Book-
Amazon Price: $12.00 (as of 06/03/2012)
Great for piecing one-of-a-kind blocks. Allows EQ users to design unique blocks for any quilting need. Authored by drawing expert Patti Anderson, this book will inspire you to draw blocks like you have never done before!
Learn to draw with this great book
It's useful for EQ7 also
My quilting websites
Enjoy them!
- Home - Quilts at Jan T's Utopia
- What is Utopia? Who is Jan T? Quilt Galleries Jan T's Blog Free Lessons Quilt Club Workshops
Patchwork School What's new at Utopia? Online design and colour courses for quilters Inspired by quilt fabric - Free Patchwork and Quilting Lessons on Utopia
- Free Lessons on patchwork, quilting, colour, Electric Quilt, including frequently answered quilting questions and beginners guides for new quiltmakers
- Jan T's Patchwork School
- Would you like to learn how to make a quilt?
Do you want to improve your existing patchwork skills?
Challenge yourself more?
Learn with Jan T Urquhart Baillie, one of Australia's leading patchwork and quilting writers, tutors and columnists. Jan T makes learning about quilting great fun! Enrol in
Want to ask a question
about EQ software?
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JoyfulPamela
Sep 24, 2010 @ 3:40 pm | delete
- Wow, I wish I could quilt, but it is one of those things that is way beyond me. They always look so beautiful, though! : )
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JanTUB
Sep 24, 2010 @ 3:44 pm | delete
- Yes you can do it. Quilts are beautiful, I agree. Thanks for stoppong by.
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ElizabethJeanAllen
Sep 19, 2010 @ 6:04 am | delete
- I want to make a new quilt for my bed. I made this log cabin quilt years ago and loved it. It wasn't fancy but it was pretty.
Thanks for sharing,
Lizzy
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JanTUB
Sep 19, 2010 @ 8:13 am | delete
- Log Cabin quilts are one of the most well loved traditional designs out there. Have you decided on a design yet? EQ would help VBG!
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SueM11 Sep 19, 2010 @ 2:25 am | delete
- What amazing designs. I made one quilt for my daughter and after that never ventured to do any more. Looking at your lovely designs made me want to try again.
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Electric Quilt's Judy Martin's STARS & SETS software
Amazon Price: (as of 06/03/2012)
I had the pleasure or reviewing this programme for my column. It is truly inspiring.
You'll love it too.
Classic Applique blocks software
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Electric Quilt Classic Applique Patterns for EQ Software 1920`s & 1930`s Block
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Do you love applique quilts? Then this is for you!
