| | |  | Electric Quilt Company | Home » » » Electric Quilt 7 EQ7 Quilt Quilting Design Software Program | | | | | | | Description: | | Electric Quilt 7 does everything you could want in a quilting design software! This latest release includes all the design features of EQ5 and EQ6 and adds lots of new design tools for beginning and advanced users. EQ7 still works with all the EQ6 add-on software and previous electric quilt manuals. This newest release requires Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 and an internet connection. New Activation Policy - never run out of installations - install on multiple computers Easier for new users - 10 videos + 22 printable color PDF lessons New Help buttons and Toolhelp Design quilts simple or complex - 10 automatic layouts, over 540 pre-designed layouts, popular quick quilts or draw your own layout Start with quick-quilt section - popular quilts that can be edited, re-colored, redesigned or just printed Draw your own grids and turn them into Custom Set quilts Borders & Sashing - 290 pre-designed Auto borders - Pick the width and EQ7 does the math World of new image effects - 45 effects and filters - use more than one image for unique effect Draw blocks using EasyDraw or Pieced PatchDraw Draw applique blocks and quilting stencils EQ7 creates blocks for you with 7 Serendipity features 5000 Scanned fabric library Scan your own fabric Print multiple photos at once to make best use of printable fabric Exporting - Create professional images of blocks and quilts printing System Requirements: Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 Internet connection Will run on Macs through Virtual PC or Parallels (XP, Vista or Windows 7 version) 750 MB of available hard-drive space CD-ROM drive Netbook compatible Recommended: Monitor with screen resolution of 1024 x 768 or greater Adobe Reader Sound card for demo videos Activation information: Internet access is required for activation, deactivation and periodic validations Unlimited installations Activations can be easily transferred between computers Two (2) computers may be simultaneously active | | | Features: | |
• Most user friendly quilting software yet!
• Over 5000 blocks and 5000 fabrics + scan your own
• Photo editing tools - 45 effects and filters
• Draw blocks using EasyDraw and Pieced PatchDraw
• Create blocks with 7 Serendipity features - no draw
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 8.25 inches | | Product Width:
| 1.25 inches | | Product Height:
| 9.25 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.6 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 15 reviews |
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36 of 36 found the following review helpful:
 Pretty happy with this software....Feb 12, 2011
By L. J. Campbell
"Reading? Pure enjoyment!"
I had been given some warnings about EQ7 having a "learning curve" (and read some, in various reviews and forums online), but since the Hoopsisters Embroidablock quilting class I'm taking has the quilt design in EQ7 format and I wanted to go wild with fabrics/color changes,... I took the plunge. I have found this software only took me a few hours over about 3 days, to get the hang of it. I DID use the users manual, and watched some of the tutorial videos that come with the software. At that point, I was opening the Sketchbook in EQ7 for the quilt we were making, had imported my own fabric photos into the fabric stash in the project, and was happily clicking away on the quilt layout to put my own fabrics where I wanted them in the design.
But I have to put in a disclaimer, lol. I have a Bachelors in Computer Science, have worked as a Quality Assurance Software Tester for ages, and have taken college courses in using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. I have to say that many of the mechanisms for working on the quilt, or it's blocks, or setting up special "palettes" of threads and fabrics in EQ7 operates with an approach that's very similar to Illustrator.
I think anyone willing to study the information Electric Quilt supplies, no matter how non-computer-savvy they are, can learn to use this with patience. And it's pretty darn slick once you get the hang of it!!!
32 of 32 found the following review helpful:
EQ7: Powerful Quilt Design SoftwareApr 30, 2011
By GoldSubCommander
EQ7 is a mature and powerful quilt design program. Although it may not be intuitive right out of the box, once you view the training tutorials it is easy to use. I really like that it is very forgiving, allowing one to try various design ideas and change things if desired. It has a large library of built-in block designs so you can design quilts forever without having to make your own blocks. However, if you want to design your own blocks from scratch, the block worktable accomodates this task quite nicely. It also has a large library of fabrics to use, or you can take photos of your own fabrics and enter them into your library. These libraries are great tools, as they allow you to "paint" your quilt blocks with actual fabrics rather than just color them in.
There are a number of helpful tools to modify your quilt design, such as tools to rotate or flip blocks, auto fill the entire quilt with a block, fill alternate blocks with a single design, etc. I particularly like the symmetry tool which allows you to rotate all the blocks in a quilt in a symmetrical fashion. There are 16 different iterations before you return to the original layout. The patterns produced by this tool on a quilt of log cabin blocks is amazing. The program lets you keep variations of every quilt design simply by adding them to the sketchbook. Everything you add is available to bring up later.
The license for this product allows you to have it activated on two computers at a time. As long as you have internet access you can easily deactivate one computer and activate another, so you can have the software installed on every computer in your house but only activated on any 2 computers at a time. It isn't quite as flexible as a dongle, but it is fairly painless since both deactivation and activate are quick and simple processes.
I highly recommend this program for anyone interested in designing their own quilts. I have tried other programs which were primitive by comparison.
67 of 73 found the following review helpful:
Great programAug 15, 2010
By Sharon
I have been quilting for over 20 years and use EQ7 for all of my designs. I would consider myself a medium to high level of experience. I like hand applique and paper piecing for my favorite forms of quilting. I recently purchased EQ7 for my two home computers. I have been an EQ5 user for many years. The new EQ7 is steps above the EQ5, lots of upgrades, lots of changes for the good. I would highly recommend EQ7 for the novice or expert quilt maker or designer. Wonderful program!
40 of 44 found the following review helpful:
 Somewhat clunky commanding but excellent toolsJan 05, 2011
By MsNomer
I am an expert computer user. I can navigate most any program very easily and have always adapted quickly to upgrades in any software application. I have just purchased this software as I know it can do wonders however the commands used to navigate through the program other than point and click are completely unique to this software alone. Any other program responds to the almost universal ctrl click to select multiples etc not this program...it has it own cockamame command logic and they are completely foreign to any other software program I have ever used. For instance to delete a line one must click on a special tool then do a specific code of combinations like ctrl right click etc. It is like a foreign language or like someone just decided to use their keyboard in a radom no specific way. As if that isn't enough...each naviagation requires a different set of commands from the next. There is no easy snap to grid for instance. And forget saving a block...or finding out how to make a 'My library'...I am very frustrated that this software speaks its own command language. Once I find out what they are which is also not that easy because the help search does not return useful answers or direct instrucitons I am sure that I will be able to use the tools this program has.
In the meantime what I have been able to learn to do has been very useful. It does make some mistakes when printing foundation patterns but just in the numbering order not in the size or pattern itself. I love this feature very much. I can draw a block then print a foundation pattern for it...or a rotary cutting guide...even templates. I like the foundation piecing the best however....
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Excellent Program and Easy to LearnFeb 03, 2012
By Stella Nemeth
This is a complex graphic program that does something unique. It allows you to create easy to very difficult and unique quilting projects quickly and see what they are going to look like before you sew a stitch.
It is not hard to learn, but you have to do what the developers of this program ask you to do. You need to watch the videos (about an hour's worth cut up into small blocks) and do the PDF lessons. Both are included with the program and are part of what gets loaded onto your computer when you install the program.
I have had Electric Quilt less than a week. I've watched the videos. When I was done I had a pretty good idea where all the tools were and what the buttons were for. I've done the first 6 PDF lessons. At this point I not only could design my own quilt, I have done it as part of the lessons because they do encourage you to play at the end of each one.
Ever wonder how someone controls a complex color scheme? Ever wonder how to skew a block so it will fit inside a star? You will learn how to do both of those things within the first 6 lessons.
The design of the program is not clunky and it is certainly a Windows program. What it isn't is a Microsoft program, so the buttons don't look exactly like the ones in Word or Excel. It is also a program that does specific things, so it has a tool bar in addition to a button bar, and three work spaces devoted to specific jobs. You can't open the program right out of the box and use it, but you can't do that with any complex program as most of us experienced Word users discovered when we got the latest version of Office. Suddenly nothing was where we expected it to be and we needed to learn how to use that program we had been working with for more than a decade and a half all over again.
Why should you listen to my review and not some of the negative ones? Anyone can say they are a computer expert, but I really am a Power User with almost 4 decades of experience. I've opened other graphics programs in the past, in Windows and even back in DOS, and could not figure them out without buying a bunch of books and doing a lot of tutorials which I had to find for myself. This time the program developers have included extensive, easy, and very well thought out classes. I know that if you do the classes you can learn the program and you will be doing amazing things during the classes. And even more amazing things after!
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