Electric Quilt Software?

Have EQ5 - love it! I usually sketch out my quilts on graph paper. Then, I sit down with EQ5 and try different colors and block arrangements. It's lots either to try lots of block arrangements on the computer than it is crawling around on the floor (at least for me!).

I have EQ5 and love it. I'm still getting to learn it, and keep finding new things it does. It helps me to get ideas down and see what they actually look like. It seems that I generally don't like to make other people's patterns, but prefer to come up with my own, so it's great for me.

-- Leigh Perth, Western Australia Real email is bearleigh at bigpond dot com

"WhansaMi" wrote

I love EQ5. Been using it ever since it was called EQ4. : }

Karen, Queen of Squishies

Well, I love it but I've been having lots of problems with it crashing, and now my computer can't find any of my project files. My guru DH will have a look next weekend for me. :-(

Thanks for the responses everyone!

I have a question: I'm interested in making art quilts of my own design. How exactly would that work with EQ? Could I, say, sketch something and scan it into the program, and have it tell me what I need to do to achieve that effect? Since I will probably work with as many curves as straight lines, how does the EQ deal with that?

Sheila

You can draw it in EQ5, curves and all. Check out some of the quilts at electricquilt.com, that will give you an idea of some of the possibilities. Also, there are EQ classes at quiltuniversity.com. Again those will give you an idea of some options. Mary

EQ5 has a "tracing" thing that works great for this. Scan in the sketch or whatever, then you trace over it using patch draw.

Yardage estimates can be rather huge. eq forces a "rectangle" around every piece, w/o rotating it at all. Ergo, the "yardage" for a diagnal line gets ridiculous.

The green/yellow 'garden' quilt in my link below was done by tracing over photo BMP files to make "motifs" of each flower element, then I printed out the templates

Thanks, everyone! Now I know what I'll Santa for at Christmas!

Sheila