Here are a few more patterns I’m working on for scrappy kinds of quilts.
#Electric quilt 7 software#
The software helped me every step of the way and I’m so happy with how this quilt top turned out! …and then added the actual fabric colors. I did my designing in black and white first… Then I would have had to manually rearrange them on the floor (IMPOSSIBLE in my 8 3/4 months pregnant body…). These three were my favorite arrangements.īefore, I would have had to make up the blocks first having no idea that these designs were possible.
I knew I wanted to do half triangles with half solid and the other half Citron Gray, I just didn’t know how I was going to arrange them. My first ever start-to-finish design with this software was for the Michael Miller Citron Gray fabric. I hope you can see that the software is easy to use and SO FUN! You can select any one of your designs and click edit to work on it some more. Here’s a screen shot of the sketchbook – this is where you find your step-by-step quilt designs, blocks, fabrics, etc. (This is Joel Dewberry’s new Heirloom collection and I’m working on this quilt RIGHT NOW!)įrom here I can export the pattern and save it to my computer, I can print it to help me lay out my actual fabric, and I can even print the fabric yardage requirements, all calculated for me! Set block – create your own or choose from the hundreds in the libraryĮyedropper – use solid colors or fabrics from the library or scan your actual fabric, import, and use that to designĪs you can see in the screen shot above, I designed my own blocks, arranged them, and then used actual scanned images of my fabric to color the sketch. Here are some of the Layout Tools and their functions: Every time you add to the sketchbook, it adds the most current version of what you’re working on so you can save every step of the way and always be able to go back and start over at any point in your design. This is where you can design your own blocks and add them to the “sketchbook”, the folder that holds all your blocks, fabrics, and designs for each quilt. mitered, long horizontal, long vertical, spaced squares, diamonds, etc. The next tab is borders – you can add as many as you want with any dimensions you want and you can also choose from a very long list of border styles (ex. You can go back and change this at any time, adding or deleting columns or rows or making each block bigger or smaller.ģ. In the Layout tab you set how many columns and rows and the width and height of each and also sashing measurements. At the very bottom left of the screen you’ll see the tabs Layout, Borders, Layer 1, Layer 2, and Layer 3. Name and begin a new project or choose from your existing projects.Ģ. Here’s the basic process of creating a quilt pattern with Electric Quilt 7:ġ.
The organization of the software is excellent – everything makes sense and there isn’t anything (so far) that I wish I could do with it and can’t. Then I did a little quilting software research and found Electric Quilt, and it has changed everything!Įlectric Quilt is very easy to learn and use and they thought of everything. with colored pencils…it was a tedious and very ineffective system of designing my own quilt patterns, nearly painful enough for me to throw in the towel and cease quilting all together. I used to agonize over my quilt patterns, drawing them out on graph paper, tracing over my lines with permanent marker, scanning them, printing off several copies, and coloring different arrangements, etc.
One reader will win a copy of the Electric Quilt 7 software ($190) AND a copy of Simplify with Camille Roskelley: Quilts for the Modern Home(C&T Publishing)! Send an email to kelseyatvanillajoydot com BEFORE MONDAY to claim your prize. The winner of EQ7 & Simplify is Robin! She said “I’d love to win the software – would really help designing quilts!”
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