Electric
Quilt
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here for a full selection of EQ tips
 Electric Quilt is a PC based software program which helps
you design quilts. It is easy to use and has great customer
support. It comes with a getting started book, which gives you an
overview of the program, and a "Design Cookbook" which gives you
step-by-step recipes for cooking up exciting quilts. Need more help?
There are 24 step-by-step videos included with the program.
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Print yardage & rotary cutting charts,
foundations, quilting stencils, and templates.
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Libraries include:
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A Block Library with over 3100 blocks that can be printed in any size.
Additional libraries can be added. Click here for more
information.
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A Fabric Library with over 11,700 fabrics, AND you can download a new palette
every month from Electric
Quilt
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An Embroidery Library
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A Layout Library with over 500 ready-made quilt layouts including a library of quilts laid out to
size for you. You will be able to set in photos to design a memory
quilt! More layout options: strip quilts (row by row and vertical
for bargello); and charm quilts (Hexagons, tumblers, pentagon
house-shapes, cobblestones, triangles/pyramids, and custom
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Nine border options including the ability to select a border width, hold
down Ctrl and have all the borders the same size, rather than having
to individually enter each one
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Rotary Cutting Charts similar to
those in Blockbase. Cutting directions for the blocks include a
rotary cutting chart telling you what size to cut the strips.
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Customizable foundation and template printouts. You will be able to
group, move and delete templates and foundation units on print
previews to maximize paper use
- New enhanced custom quilt tools such
as an eyedropper to identify color, a tape measure to measure lines
or patches, a symmetry tool to rotate groups of blocks The fussy cut
tool for positioning a fabric motif on a block patch will now works
on the quilt worktable, too.
Also Available:  Blockbase II is the Windows Version of Barbara
Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns. This collection of
quilt blocks represents her 20-year research of quilt blocks and
includes virtually every pieced block published from 1835-1970. This program, available on a CD, includes over 4,000
quilt block patterns, searchable by name, style or the number she
assigned to that blocks. Blockbase will also create and let you print templates for the blocks
and will give you rotary cutting instructions. Click
here to order for $59.95, a 15% savings over the list price of
$69.95. Click here for tips on using
Blockbase.
 EQ5
Simplified; An Easy Learning Guide takes
you step by gentle step on a learning journey through Electric Quilt 5.
Master teacher Fran Iverson Gonzalez has created the perfect beginner's
companion to Electric Quilt 5. Fran's visual
learning approach is time-tested. She's taught thousands of Electric Quilt
students to master the basics, and then go beyond that.
You will learn to:
- explore the
block and fabric libraries
- create your own
fabric palette and block collections
- import fabrics
- draw pieced,
appliqué, overlaid blocks and quilting stencils
- use the
Wreathmaker
- plan a variety
of layouts and borders
- add sashes and
prairie points
- learn
construction shortcuts
- prepare a
project for e-mailing
- create a quilt
label
- design a quilt
backing
- and print
blocks, templates, foundations, yardage charts, appliqué, stencils
and quilts.
By following Fran's
instructions you will learn to approach quilt designing with total
confidence, creativity and control. Click
here to order for $18.75, a 15% savings over the list price of
$21.95.
 EQ5
Drawing. Patti Anderson reveals all her drawing secrets,
teaching you the tricks the experts, whose EQ5 designs get published in
books and magazines, know. You'll master EQ5's powerful drawing tools,
creating blocks you've admired in magazines and quilt shows but never
dreamed you'd be able to draw.
Starting with the basics, Patti explains do's and don'ts, and presents
dozens of time-saving tips. You'll not only learn to look at a favorite
block design and redraw it in EQ5. Patti's easy-to-do lessons will
actually free you to create your own original designs. This is the
perfect book for beginners who don’t know what or how to draw, as well
as designers and teachers wanting to publish or be published.
See for yourself!
Print out and work through a sample lesson on how to draw a Tilted
Maple Leaf block from the EQ5 Drawing book, courtesy of Electric
Quilt. This lesson
is a PDF file (Portable Document Format), so you must have Adobe
Acrobat Reader software to view it.
Click
here to order for $18.75, a 15% savings over the list price of
$21.95.
 EQ5
Quilt Design will give you a firm grounding in quilt design basics,
including using Custom Set and the Graph Pad. You'll also find it filled
with illustrated border, layout and setting ideas you'll refer to again
and again as you work on your own. Click
here to order for $18.75, a 15% savings over the list price of
$21.95.
 Folk Art Classic Appliqué Blocks for EQ5
The blocks on this CD date from 1850-1900, a period known for red and
green appliqué, appliqué samplers and quilts featuring four large
appliqué blocks. This collection is perfect for Civil War or
late-Victorian reproduction quilts — or new quilts with country
charm. A collector's
edition of the best-loved 19th-century appliqué blocks. Perfect for Civil
War quilts and more. Click
here to order this CD for EQ for $18.75, a 15% savings over the list price of
$21.95.
 1920's
& 1930's Classic Appliqué Blocks for EQ5 These vintage
blocks represent a time of popular revival of quilt interest, and the
birth of the quilt industry and quilt guilds. From World War I on, fabric
notion companies, newspapers and magazines increasingly published old
block patterns and invented new ones. So the blocks on the CD are mainly
from the first quarter or the 20th century, but includes blocks from the
1940's and 1950's. Click
here to order this CD for EQ for $18.75, a 15% savings over the list price of
$21.95.
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Related Items Available:
EQ5
Simplified; An Easy Learning Guide.
click here for more info
EQ5 Drawing
click here for more info
EQ5
Quilt Design
click here for more info
Classic Appliqué Blocks from the
1930's. This software includes a beautiful
selection of popular appliqué patterns from the jazz age up to World War
II. Click here for more information.
Folk Art Classic Appliqué Blocks
This software includes 200 block patterns from 1850-1900. Click
here for more information.
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