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EQ6 Full Version
EQ6 is the newest and most advanced version of our best-selling Electric Quilt software, it's also the most user-friendly. This incredibly full-featured quilt design and drawing program has been especially designed with beginners as well as advanced designers in mind. Use it to design quilts, draw blocks, scan in fabrics or select from over 20,000 blocks, fabrics, colors, embroidery, photos, threads, quilt layouts and borders included in EQ6. Use EQ6 simply to try out colors, or print patterns in any size. Or use EQ6 to forge a quilting career, producing professional, high-resolution block and quilt images print-ready for books or magazines. This is software you'll never outgrow! Click Here to see a list of the 100 new features in EQ6. Click here to place your order.
EQ6 Upgrade Version
You already own EQ5? Then you will want to upgrade to EQ6. Same great new program but with a great price. You must have EQ5 installed on your computer in order for this version to install. Click Here for more information about this upgrade. Click Here to place your order.
EQ6 Simplified
Attention EQ6 beginners! EQ6 Simplified, the newest and biggest of our best-selling “Simplified” tutorials is ready. Popular EQ teacher and author Fran Iverson Gonzalez holds your hand as you work through step-by-step instructions in eight fun lessons. It’s like taking classes right in your own home. Read to start having fun then Click here to order you copy.
EQ6 Block Book
The first of the EQ6 companion books. The Block Book is an illustrated guide to the block patterns in EQ6. Find blocks quickly by flipping through the pages rather than scrolling through files. All 4100 EQ6 blocks are organized by category and style, just as they appear in EQ6. Each is names, illustrated and indexed. Click here to place your order.
Quiltmaker Quilting Motifs - Volume 1
Quiltmaker's Quilting Motifs Volume 1 book is now available on CD from The Electric Quilt Company! This CD features a beautiful variety of over 550 of the most popular quilting designs and variations from past issues of Quiltmaker, selected for you by the magazine's staff. Click here to place your order.
Quiltmaker Quilting Motifs - Volume 2
This CD features a beautiful variety of over 560 of the most popular quilting designs and variations from past issues of Quiltmaker, selected for you by the magazine's staff. Click here to place your order.
STASH 16 - Spring 2007
STASH Spring 2007 is the sixteenth edition in our STASH CD series. STASH Spring 2007 gives you an all new collection of over 5000 new fabrics from 30 different fabric manufacturers -- the best fabric in the quilting industry.. Click here to place your order.
STASH 15 - Fall 2006
STASH Fall 2006 is the fifteenth edition in our STASH CD series. STASH Fall 2006 gives you an all new collection of over 5800 new fabrics from 31 different fabric manufacturers -- the best fabric in the quilting industry. Click here to place your order.
Quilt Design Wizard
Quilt Design Wizard is a software for beginning quilters and beginning computer users. It is an inexpensive way for you to try quilt designing on your computer for the first time. If you only need simple pieced blocks, straight/horizontal layouts, on-point layouts, and want to play with color, then Quilt Design Wizard may be for you. If you want to do pieced and appliqué blocks, draw your own blocks, work with every kind of layout imaginable, color with your own scanned fabrics, audition quilting stencils and embroidery, and more... then you may want to check out Electric Quilt 5. Click here to place your order.
Town and Country Patchwork CD-ROM
This easy-to-use software is perfect for fans of paper piecing, new quilters and new computer users. 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. To purchase click here
Karen K Stone Projects and Palette CD and Book
Now you can design with Karen's blocks, print foundation patterns and color with a new Fabric Library of fabrics chosen to mimic Karen's unique style. To purchase click here.
Judy Martin's Stars and Sets
The Electric Quilt Company celebrates one of America's most popular and prolific designer's 35 years of quiltmaking with this "Collector's Edition" CD-ROM of over 200 of Judy Martin' favorite original star block designs. To purchase click here.
Watch color theory come to life in straightforward EQ5 lessons from Susan McKelvey. Play with color on the screen as you learn color basics, trying fail-safe color schemes. Master color harmony and contrast, discovering how colors behave and which dominate a design. Susan's advanced lessons focus on luminosity, light and shadow, transparency, as well as combining color and shape. This book will help you learn to use color to make the statement you want.
For more information and to place your Pre-Release order click here.
Two books in one - Lessons plus a Design Idea Sourcebook - combine in a book you'll refer to again and again. Barb's fifteen easy lessons build your design skills. New to EQ5? Start with "Designing a Quilt 101." It's amazing how easy Barb makes overlaying appliqué, quilting and even embroidery. Specific steps for designing twenty-nine different quilts. The "Design Idea Sourcebook" illustrates over 100 border ideas, helps you plan border corners, use photos in a quilt, and twenty other topics. Perfect for every skill level. For more information and to place your Pre-Release order click here.
"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." from the Electric Quilt Web Site. For more information and to place your Pre-Release order click here.
It is here Fran's new book. If you are an EQ5 owner and want to get up and designing in a hurry this is the book for you. This book has 10 Lessons that will get you up and designing in your quilting program in no time. For more information and to purchase your copy click here.
Inspired by Brenda Papadakis's book Dear Jane: The Two Hundred Twenty-Five Patterns from the 1863 Jane A. Stickle Quilt, this software will help you see how other quilters have made their own beautiful Dear Jane quilts and even design your own on your computer screen. From there you can print patterns for your quilts or the blocks, read sewing instructions, print quilt labels, surf Dear Jane web sites and so much more. Design and learn with Dear Jane. Click here to order your copy.
Dear Hannah: In the Style of Jane A. Stickle is the next book in the Dear Jane sampler craze. This charming book, by Brenda Papadakis, includes pieced and appliquéd patterns from the quilt she made for her granddaughter, Hannah. The book shows all of the 144 block patterns as well as 48 border triangles and four corner kites. And in classic Dear Jane style, you can read 28 letters from grandmother to granddaughter. Just click here to order your copy.
By popular demand, Brenda's long-awaited sequel — Dear Hannah: In the Style of Jane A. Stickle — features all new vintage patterns, with charming letters to her granddaughter, Hannah. Just click here to order your copy.
If you have been thinking about purchasing Electric Quilt but have been putting it off. . You can now purchase EQ5 by just clicking here to place your order.
Not sure if your mailed in your registration card? Then send an email to the following email address, make sure you give them your name and address. If you moved make sure you include your old address:
customerservice@electricquilt.com
For more information on some of the new features in EQ5 click here. When you are ready to place your order just click the back button in your browser and click here.
Have more questions? Email me at sheila@sheilawilliams.com
If you are an EQ4 user, Fran's "EQ4 Simplified" book is still available for purchase. Fran walks you through step by step instructions for creating 10 Quilts. This book go's from basic to advance quilt designing. Click here for sample pages from the book. To purchase your copy click here.
All you do is place the CD in your CD-ROM drive and it will automatically start, in most computers. Then select the tutorial you want to watch. The "Viewlets" use your Internet Browser to play so no additional installation and no additional space is needed on your computer hard drive.
You can stop, start, pause, go back one or more slides or just replay the whole viewlet as many times as you like, anytime you like. You can even, using the instructions provided to split your computer monitor screen and have EQ4 on one side and the tutorial on the otherside, and work right along with the tutorials.
The CD also has "Free Stuff" to make working with EQ4 more fun. There's also links to download Irfanview and Winzip programs.
To view sample tutorials from the CD-ROM click here. For more information and to order click here. No affiliation with the Electric Quilt Company.
Announcing Quilt Pro 5, the new features are going to knock your sox off. There is a special upgrade price for registered Quilt Pro 2/3/4 owner and also a new user special. For more information click here.
Expand your Mariner's Compass horizons with this new collection of 100 blocks--all ready for foundation piecing! From traditional Mariner's Compass to totally innovative designs, you'll be thrilled to add these new blocks to your collection. Best of all, wedge-shaped foundation units make sewing these blocks a breeze! For more information click here.
General Information
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Have you visited my new Quilting Software Web Links page? Here you can find links to your favorite Quilting Software Program web sites. You can check to see if a new update for your Quilting Programs has been published with just a click. Let me know if you like this page and what you would like added to it.
The following Quilting Software Programs have "free" updates available for download. Just click on the programs name to go to the download site and follow the directions to download and install the new update:
Creative Impulse
PC Quilt
Quilt-Pro 3
Quilt-Pro 4
Quilt-Pro 5
