EQ7

Electric Quilt Version 7 ~ Quilt Design Software Program. Full Program, not an upgrade or add on.



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Important Notice:
EQ7 has a new anti excessive install deterrent system. 
Internet access is required for activation and deactivation. Unlimited installations. Activations can be easily transferred between computers. Two (2) computers may be simultaneously active. You'll never run out of EQ7 activations! Activation and deactivation is as easy as two clicks of the mouse. Install on as many computers as you like and quickly transfer activations from computer to computer. This new policy gives you complete freedom to manage your own activations and no dongle to worry about!

You do not need an internet connection to run the program but you must have it at the time of installation.  Do not buy this program if the computer you intend to install it on will not have an internet connection at the time of installation or later access.

 

 

Important Questions Answered:
Will I be able to use my EQ6 projects in EQ7?
Yes. You can import blocks and quilts from any previous EQ project in a really easy way, then just copy and paste them into your My Library (User Library).
Will all my other EQ Company software, like BlockBase, Dear Jane and the Classic Applique blocks link with EQ7?
Yes.
 

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While EQ7 is the newest and most advanced version of the 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 thousands of blocks, fabrics, colors, embroidery, photos, threads, quilt layouts and borders included in EQ7. Use EQ7 simply to try out colors, or print patterns in any size. Or use EQ7 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!

The Electric Quilt Company has not released advertising videos for EQ7 yet but you can see some of what EQ6 offered from these video files and try to understand that EQ7 will look and feel a little different and has even more capabilities than shown here! Just hit the "Back" button on your browser to return here after viewing. Be sure to turn the volume up on your computer before viewing. If these videos don't work for you, you will need to download and install Adobe Flash Player. To do so, click here.
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What you get with EQ6
Designing Quilts
Adding Borders
Printing Patterns
Importing Photos, Scans and More
Drawing Blocks
More about Drawing
Quilt Gallery

EQ7 Features:
  Patterns
EQ7 has 5000 block patterns which can be printed in any size and a Search feature for finding blocks in the Block Library.
 Pieced blocks
 Applique blocks
 Paper Piecing (Foundation) blocks
 Quilting Stencils
 700 NEW blocks since EQ7
 Find blocks by category in the Block library: All the blocks are marked according to difficulty, piecing info, holidays, and themes so you can just search for a Five Patch block with rectangles only or a Christmas block with Flowers.
 

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 Quilts
The number of quilts you can create in EQ7 is endless. You can start new blank quilts in any of the automatic styles, get quilts from the layout library by size or style, create your own quilt layout from a block, or even use a quick quilt already made for you!
 Automatic Styles
Quickly make Samplers, On-Point Quilts, Medallions, or Baby Blocks using any of the 8 automatic styles. Or use the "anything goes" quilt layout and design freely on a large blank quilt layout, setting any block, any size, any place on your quilt.
 Layout Library Quilts
Need to make a queen sized quilt, but feeling particularly un-creative? Or, do you want to start a medallion quilt and don't know where to begin? Open up the Layout library and use a ready-made quilt layout as a starting point for the quilt of your dreams.
 By Size - Different layouts (horizontal, on-point, Bargello, Grandmother's Flower Garden, etc.) in sizes from California King all the way to Crib. Even includes layouts for Miniature Quilts, Table Runners, and Placemats.
 By Style - Showcase your blocks in a quilt from any one of the numerous styles, including Horizontal or On-Point Medallions, Stars, and Irregular Grids.
 Create a Quilt from a Block
Choose any block from the library or one that you draw which has horizontal and vertical lines. Convert it to a quilt and you can set blocks in all the spaces!
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 Quick Quilts
When you start the program you can create or open your own projects or start with one saved by the company. Just open the project, choose your quilt size and print away! The quilt is already designed for you. Swap out colors or fabrics if you like to make it your own.
You can add the extras to any quilt .
 "Float" applique designs or pieced blocks on top of your quilt.
 "Quilt" your quilt with any thread color you'd like.
 Create sashes and multiple borders.
 Keep note cards on each quilt, saving design ideas.

 Borders
New tools, new blocks, and new border styles!
 Set Auto Border Tool
Use to put a border around your quilt in any of the following styles: Checked, Curved, Flying Geese, Scrolls, Swags, and more.
 Border Blocks in the Block Library
Including: Interwoven Styles, Single Block Patterns, and Applique Vines.
 Border Styles
To help you line up blocks between multiple borders.
 

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 Fabrics
EQ7 has 5000 newly scanned fabrics... the same quality as the ones you would find in the fabric stores.
 Fabrics by Category
Need some dots? Or how about an antique double-pink? Just pick fabrics from any of the fabrics organized in these categories: Antique, Colors, Geometric, Holidays, Nature or Region.
 Fabrics by Color
Yes, there is a difference between plum and violet, and between rust, warm brown and gray brown. Pick from any of the fabrics organized by color. And you can even search the entire library by Color.
 Fabrics by Manufacturer
Choose fabrics from manufacturers basic lines.

There are endless possibilities for the included fabrics:
 Want to see what your quilt would really look like with the fabrics you have in mind? - Scan your own fabrics and import them into EQ7. Color your quilt with the real fabrics you plan to use before you even sew one stitch. Store the scanned fabrics in EQ7 and create your own fabric library.
 Fabric scales automatically on the quilt. What you see on the screen is what you'll get!
 Fussy-cut fabrics to see a fabric's design better.
 Make your own colors, including shaded palettes.
 Rotate fabrics right on your screen by degrees or to the edge of a seam (even when you don't know the degree by which you need to rotate).
 Random Recolor. Recolor your quilt to be lighter/darker, more or less saturated, change the colors around the color wheel or even randomly color your quilt with a click!
 

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 Print
 
Templates
Specify the size of seam allowance around each patch. Move or delete templates before you print. Rotate templates on print preview.
 Foundation Patterns
EQ7 numbers each pattern, separating units and adding seam allowance. If you draw a pattern, EQ7 numbers it for you. Move or delete foundation pattern sections before you print.
 Rotary Cutting Charts
Print rotary cutting charts for blocks in EQ7 or blocks you design yourself.
 Blocks 
Print them as line drawings, in gray scale, in color, as applique patterns, or as quilting stencils! Print off your favorite blocks as line drawings and make quick coloring book pages for children.
 Quilts
Print your quilts as line drawings or colored with fabrics.
 Fabric Yardage Estimates
Calculate yardage in inches or centimeters and print yardage charts.

You can also draw and print your own original patterns.

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 Libraries
Streamlined libraries that are easy to use. You can import directly from other projects and files, and copy and paste right into your library.

In addition to the 5000 blocks in the Block Library, 5000 scanned fabrics in the Fabric Library, 120 quilts in the Layout Library, you will also be able to use items from the:

 Importing Features
Now you can import from other EQ software projects or shopping bags right through the library. Just open the library you need and choose Import from Project (use this for BlockBase searches, EQ6 projects or palettes, and STASH shopping bags). Or, you can import image files through the photo or fabric library. You can also import your own embroidery designs (.EXP format only) to try out on your latest quilt, then save in your own embroidery library 
 Photo Library
Photo and memory quilts have never been this much fun! Use any of the already saved forest, garden, sky or textured pictures to create life-like fabric. Or, import your own pictures of family, events, or scenery to build up your own collection of photos to use in quilts. Photos can be in the JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG, or TIFF format.
 Embroidery Library
Jazz up your quilt with all new images of embroidery designs from Viking, PFAFF, and Cactus Punch. Try out the embroidery on your quilt to decide if you want to get the embroidery card so you can sew out the designs.
 Thread Library
Ackermann, Aurifil, Coats & Clark, Gutermann, Mettler, Robison-Anton, Signature, Sulky, Superior, Valdani, and YLI have let the company know their thread colors so you can color your embroidery and quilting stitches with the spool you're actually using! You can also create a Thread library of your own spools.

 

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 Drawing Tools
  Draw pieced, applique or combination.
 Draw pieced blocks almost as quickly as you would draw a block on paper in EasyDraw.
 Draw applique blocks in PatchDraw using easy drag and drop patches (hearts, leaves, feathers, tear-drops, circles, triangles, octagons and more).
 Draw pieced blocks in PatchDraw using "click and snap" grids for stars, kaleidoscopes, and compasses.
 Draw with the Freehand Tool to make realistic patches.
 Use the Brush Stroke Tool to do vines, scrolls and stems.
 Draw sash or border blocks with ease on a Rectangular Drawing Board .
 Import images to trace and turn your favorite picture or drawing into a block. Images imported for tracing can be in the JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG, or TIFF format. Choose how you want the image cropped and how transparent you want it right from EQ6.
 Use the WreathMaker to turn shapes into wreaths or quick quilting stencils.

 

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 Help, Help, and more Help
Learning with Electric Quilt has never been easier or more fun.
 Point-and-read info on each tool – now linked directly to Help topics
 67 "How do I?" topics: printable stepped-out instructions for doing everything from printing English paper-piecing templates to drawing a New York Beauty
 22 printable full-color PDF lessons (115 pages)
 And you can always call or email the company whenever you need help.

 For the Advanced Designer
EQ7 is a teacher and pattern-maker's dream:
 Fabrics - import fabrics in JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG, or TIFF formats and it automatically rescales perfectly on the quilt or block.
 Letters - write on your quilts with the Set Applique Text tool. You can add a verse or add sewing directions right on top of the quilt. It's up to you.
 Export Metafiles - export vector images in the .EMF format that are outline only, outline and fill, or fill only. Fill colors are the average color of the fabric in the block.
 Export Images - you need a high resolution image? What size? What format? EQ7 can do it and the fabric is scaled perfectly. Magazine editors and book publishers will love you!

 For the Beginning Designer
Just because EQ7 can do so much, doesn't mean that it still can't be easy to use. The company has kept beginning quilters and beginning computer users in mind throughout the entire software design and documentation process.
 Draw without drawing - Need a new block? Use the Serendipity tools to frame, merge, and tilt blocks without drawing a thing.
 Add borders full of blocks in 3-4 clicks - Use the Set Auto Borders tool to make your quilt look stunning.
 Use Quick Quilt Projects - try any of these quilt favorites to color, resize, print, and sew.
 Make quilt labels - Use the text tool to write out your labels and make the back of your quilt as interesting as the front.
 Find blocks within your sewing capabilities - all the library blocks have been marked according to difficulty. So if you're a beginning quilter, why not try a beginning block with rectangles only? Or how about a beginning block with rectangles and triangles only?
 Learn the software like you have a teacher beside you - the company has made 10 videos especially for beginners and the help files are as user-friendly as possible with you in mind.
 

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SUPPORT: Online support is available from Electric Quilt at their web site.
EQ7 has 79 either new or improved features from EQ6.

 

 

System Requirements:
Windows: XP (Home and Pro), Vista and Windows 7 (32 or 64 bit)
CD-ROM drive, suggested MB RAM not given by the company yet, color monitor capable of 1024x768 resolution, 750 MB free hard disk space. Internet required for activation, deactivation, and periodic validations. A sound card is recommended for use with the demo videos. Netbook compatible.


 

RETURNS: Due to the nature of the product (computer software with limited licenses/activations), it is not returnable.