A fat quarter bundle of the Strawberry Fields fabrics will be given away to two lucky winners! Submit your EQ design featuring Strawberry Fields below… all instructions and contest details are in this post.
Good luck! To enter Design your own, original quilt in…. Did you know there are 88 stained glass blocks already in EQ8? Welcome back to the Hexagon quilt design adventure! In this final lesson we are going to explore using the Custom Quilt layout to design a Hexagon quilt.
This blank canvas will allow us to essentially build a Hexagon quilt that can be assembled with English paper piecing or EPP.
This can open up a myriad of possibilities and let you…. Are you ready for more Hexagon quilt layouts? In this lesson we will look at a couple of ways to add hexagons to a quilt using square and rectangular blocks. These two layouts are both great ways to highlight your pieced hexagons but a plain one will do too. If you have not had a chance to follow along…. My experience with teaching quilting and machine embroidery over the years is that the simplest projects are liked the best by the students.
When I give them something incredibly simple and quick to…. Our quilts are often about color. Sometimes it is the design itself that is the focus, but the eye sees color before it sees patterns. I love designs that have a bit of a dimensional look and are quickly created with color. Launch your EQ8 project to start. On the opening screen, click on the little piece of paper with…. Every month, we highlight a block from the EQ8 Block Library and challenge you to design something with it!
Welcome to the first EQ8 Block Spotlight post of ! Each month we highlight a block from the EQ8 Block Library with a few design ideas.
Then we want you to show us what you can do with the block. This monthly series is great motivation…. Welcome to the EQ8 Block Spotlight series! Then we want YOU to show us what you can do with the block.
Bridge the gap between software and sewing! Get more comfortable on the computer, then use printouts to create a project! If you have not seen the quilts posted in the Quilt Link Up, check them out! Mary is…. Access and follow these lessons any time! Did you make the sampler quilt in the Free PDF?! Post pictures of your quilts or blocks here. You can also email techsupport electricquilt. You can always email us at techsupport electricquilt. During business hours, use our Live Chat or call This product is no longer sold by The Electric Quilt Company.
In during the Civil War, a woman named Jane A. Stickle decided to make a sampler quilt. One hundred sixty-nine blocks, 52 triangles, 4 corner kites and pieces later… she had a quilt that, to this day, still leaves quilters in awe. This program includes all the block patterns to make the original sampler quilt, plus over more! These blocks include:.
Browse fabrics by color and find the shade you are looking for. Use any of the Dear Jane look-alikes to make an authentic Dear Jane with look-alike fabrics you may find in stores. The Dear Jane blocks are known by letters A — M and numbers 1 Or, instead of getting fabrics one by one from the library, load an entire palette of coordinating scanned fabrics with just a few clicks. You can even create and save your favorite or your own scanned fabrics as a group in the palette library.
Print your own Dear Jane block patterns in any size, as blocks, templates, foundation patterns, or rotary cutting charts. Did we mention that you can print them in any size? Print certificates of completion to mark the milestones on your Jane Journey. Or surprise a Dear Jane friend with a certificate. There are nine certificates to choose from, each in three styles. See the inspiring finished Dear Jane quilts on display in the quilt gallery and in project ideas.
There are over 60 quilts, many of which have close-ups of blocks, stitching, or quilt labels as well as notes from the quilters themselves. Please consider offering Dear Jane in a Mac version. It is so popular right now. I am sure you have lost many sales because of this. I would have bought it if you had a Mac version. Hi Leigh. I apologize for your frustrations.
Several machines commonly used with the PCQ are the Homesteader, the Handiquilter 16, and the Voyager others work fine too, ask on the User group. Be careful to not be talked into or required to purchase the machine with a stitch regulator - that adds a lot to the price and is totally unecessary if you just want to do PC Quilter type quilting. Most customers but not all do not mix free-motion and PC Quilter type quilting on the same quilt - the free-motion quilting will look bad next to the precision PC Quilter sewing.
More users do not quilt enough to become skilled at free motion - it takes practice to do well. Do your research carefully before committing to such an investment. Most of the time, setting up a PC Quilter is not difficult or overly time consuming. Most problems are caused by the customer not reading the instruction book carefully - just trying to set up the P C Quilter by instinct. That will not work.
Most customers have never added a "real time device" to their PC so instinct is not enough. In a few cases, there are PC issues such as other software on the PC interfering or a port is not compatible. Because the PC Quilter can connect in parallel, serial, or USB mode, there are many possibilities to circumvent problems with non-compatible port.
Seeking help from tech support before wasting time or getting really frustrated is also important. The PC Quilter requires a fully bidirectional parallel port that is not controlled or otherwise manipulated by other software on your computer. Our tech support can walk you through tests as well as changing the BIOS or Port address of the Parallel port to make sure your settings are correct. In some cases we may ask you to try the PC Quilter on another computer.
You do not need to move the computer into the room. You simply take your PC Quilter to where the computer is, set it on the floor and run the tests our tech support has asked you to do. In a few rare cases, we do find a PC Quilter that has developed a problem during shipping or setup. Those problems are usually solved by shipping a new part to be installed by the user with our detailed instructions.
These laptops have proved troublesome as the parallel ports are not truly bidirectional. We have found, for example, that screen savers interfere with the operation of the PC Quilter. This is nothing new! They also interfere with printers, modems, etc. Another culprit is print spoolers which grab control of the parallel port and want to control the flow of data.
Still another is "dongle" software - which although it may now be hooked into your USB, sometimes also checks and plays with the parallel port because they used to make dongles that were there! There are many programs that might take up too much of the processor time and may cause the PC Quilter to slow down or act erratically if you were to run them at the same time.
The PC Quilter can use an OLDER computer - a Pentium 2 or newer computer will work fine except that if you digitize your own patterns, it may be slow for just that task. It might be in your best interest to consider leaving your newer main system for designing patterns, surfing, other hobbies, etc. There are so many ad-ware and viruses floating around and infecting PC's. Some of that "unwanted" software will "wake up" every few minutes and check out what you are doing on your PC.
That can happen while you are quilting and cause less than perfect stitching quality. Most websites of interest to kids and young adults and older adults acting like kids put a LOT of ad-ware onto your PC. You must have a working knowledge of Windows to use the PC Quilter including the ability to copy files between folders, use Windows Explorer, organize files using sub-folders, and use to dialog boxes and pull down menus..
You should also understand what a file extension is the. If you intend to design your own patterns, you should also know how to connect and use a scanner, and save an image to the BMP format. If you want to digitize images optional to create your own pattern files you should be able to use simple image editing software such as MSPaint and simple text editing software such as WordPad.
Being able to lay out geometric patterns on graph paper and entering the corresponding column and row will also be to your advantage but is not required. Of course, if you buy all your patterns, you will not need to know anymore than the basic Windows knowledge, and the ability to edit the text file to change pattern commands. For more information check our Order Procedure page. It does not work with Linux or on a Mac.
In other words, there was no graphical user interface. In almost all situations, this was not really a drawback. In fact, all versions of the PC Quilter software will run in that same mode today.
That new set of software is called QT Menu. It will require a slightly more powerful computer if you want snappy response however we routinely run it on an old Pentium from If you want to digitize your own patterns optional , you will need a more powerful computer. We recommend a Pentium 4 running at 1.
The PC Quilter has been in production since June The PC Quilter is working away on 5 continents only Antarctica needs one - any volunteers? In Canada, these fees are normally payable in cash at the time of delivery, although if you are picking it up at your local post office, they normally accept debit card. Longer travel is available by special order at an increased cost.
It will require that the customer mount 2 small parts on their long-arm sewing head carriage so that it can "dock" with the Side Mounted PC Quilter.
The parts are very adjustable to fit a wide range of long-arms mid-arms too. In those cases, when our parts will not work for your particular make and model of long-arm, we can have special parts made at a nominal cost if you provide the dimensions of your carriage and what it rolls on and pictures too.
Or, you can have them made. They are simple parts. Keep in mind that sewing out very detailed patterns will be at about. However, patterns designed for fast sewing will sew at well over 1 inch per second - depending on the weight of your sewing head.
Such patterns have long flowing curves and straight lines. The software then automatically does "ramping up" and "ramping down" at all sharp turns in the pattern. Adding the Side Mounted PC Quilter to a long-arm requires that you have some mechanical skills - most long-arm owners do. There are many areas across the US and Canada that currently do not have reps. The duties of a PC Quilter representatives include demonstrating the PC Quilter at major quilt shows and contacting quilting stores and major quilt guilds to demonstrate the PC Quilter.
Please e-mail us at pcqrep pcquilter. For more information see also Become a Dealer. In general, any major brand such as HP and Compaq will work. Any modern PC you can buy today is more than enough. Sometimes we have configuration problems on off-brand PC's.
Do not necessarily buy the cheapest PC but on the other hand, you do not at all need the most expensive. The rest of the time, it doesn't matter. That means that you need to have a computer that is free of ad ware, programs running in the background, and extra processes that are so commonly "preloaded" on new computers today. If you are also going to digitize optional on that PC, that may be too slow. If the old PC is free or very inexpensive, you can always try it and see if the digitizing speed is too slow.
If you don't digitize often that is the normal situation , you may not mind that it is a bit slow when doing just that. The best type of computer to use is one with a real parallel port, a serial port, and a USB port. As of , it is difficult to buy a new laptop with a parallel or serial port. Many older laptops do have either a parallel or serial port or both plus a USB port - they all work fine for a PC Quilter. Older desktop PC's tend to have a parallel or serial port or both.
If a desktop does not have a parallel port or serial port, it is inexpensive to add one. It is not easy to add a parallel or serial port to a laptop. Desktops also offer the advantage of being less expensive than laptops, and you can typically get much more memory, processor speed and a bigger display for less money.
If in doubt about a PC you are going to buy, ask us. Another approach some customers use is to buy a PC that has a 30 day free return privilege and then make sure you try it on the PC Quilter way before that 30 day deadline expires.
Allow time for getting help from tech support if you have setup issues. The PC Quilter is a combination of hardware, electronics, software and patterns. The PC Quilter system includes a carriage containing motors, electronics, and other parts. The PC Quilter carriage replaces the carriage on your machine quilting system or quilt frame.
The PC Quilter also includes software that lets you quilt detailed, elaborate patterns or simple patterns - there is no restriction on what is allowed in a pattern. Payment options PayPal accepted. PayPal Credit accepted. Venmo accepted. Maestro accepted. Amazon Pay accepted. See all traits. Listing details Shipping discount: Shipping weights of all items added together for savings.
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