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Drawing Blocks
- EQ has two methods of drawing blocks, EasyDraw (intersecting lines) and PatchDraw (shapes.)
QuiltPro works
exclusively in shapes.
- You can draw and color many blocks
on one screen in Quilt Pro. As you draw your block, it fills with
the fabric chosen. In EQ, you draw the block first, then add
fabric.
- In EQ, if your lines don't intersect properly, you won't know until you go to another screen to color it.
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Quilt Pro has
a Rotary Cutter tool that allows you to draw one square and cut it apart with the rotary cutter. You color the patch on the same screen.
- QP is a vector based program. Any time you draw a block in QP, you
must work with patch shapes. This makes it easier to design a quilt with
hexagons (Grandmothers Flower Gardens) and other non square quilts.
- QP has nothing comparable to
the Wreathmaker tool.
- QP does not have the Baby Blocks set
- QP has a Patch Stamp tool with over 50 shapes such as hearts, leaves,
flowers, stems, stars, drunkards path, flying geese units, etc. You
can add your designs to the patch stamp tool, too.
- EQ has PatchDraw, which draws these shapes on a block. The edges
of the block can later be removed to make motifs.
- To choose a block in QP, a box opens up in a separate window which
overlaps the designing screen. To choose a block in EQ, you must
open the block library, choose a block, put it in the sketchbook, close
the sketchbook and return to the design screen.
- Patch Draw makes it easier to draw freehand blocks.
Border Designing
- In Quilt Pro you design away from the quilt, save as a border file,
and then apply to the quilt. This is the only place in QP where
designing is limited to a certain area. The border design grid has a
definite L shape that you have to fill in, but you can duplicate shapes
you have already created so that you don't have to redraw them. If
you don't want to draw your border, Quilt Pro comes with 120+ border
designs, which includes stencils as well as well as geometric blocks.
- In EQ you can design borders of several different styles right on the
quilt.
Designing the Quilt
- QP uses a system of one quilt, one file; one block, one file; one fabric, one file; one border, one file. To design a quilt,
you must combine these separate files. This saves memory because you
only load what you need when you need it.
- EQ puts everything into one project file, which can
then contain several quilts, blocks, fabrics, and borders. This makes it easier to see what the overall quilt will look like as the
different elements are changed.
Round Robins
- It is difficult to do Round Robins with QP unless everyone shares the
same fabric files and the same upgrade/version of the program. Sending a
file along with the quilt in progress does not automatically include the
fabric file, etc., needed to open the quilt design, as it does in EQ.
- However, www.QuiltStash.com
makes over 80 fabric collections available free of charge.
- QP's fabric selections can be used in other programs, such as PhotoShop.
Books and other related software.
- Both have compatible programs, although EQ has more books, fabric
CD’s and other sewing software available for use with it.
Compatibility
- EQ cannot be used on a Mac as QP can, unless a windows emulator is
used.
Tech Support
- Both have active mailing lists. EQ's website and mailing list has
more technical support.
- QP comes with a 30 day money back guarantee.
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