Dear Jane - Quilt Design Software

Dear Jane Software
Inspired by Brenda Papadakis's book Dear Jane: The Two Hundred Twenty-Five Patterns from the 1863 Jane A. Stickle Quilt, this software will help you see how other quilters have made their own beautiful Dear Jane quilts and even design your own on your computer screen. From there you can print patterns for your quilts or the blocks, read sewing instructions, print quilt labels and so much more. Design and learn with Dear Jane.
Blocks include:
- 169 center blocks
- 194 center block variations (These blocks are for alternate piecing methods; you choose whether you would rather do appliqué, rotary cutting, or paper piecing!)
- 125 blocks not included in the original quilt (log cabins, flying geese, stars, etc.)
- 4 corner kites
- 52 triangles blocks to create a simple scalloped border or the complex scalloped border from the classic quilt and more...
All of the powerful design features of Electric Quilt are here! Design your own quilt – traditional or contemporary. Start with the classic 1863 Dear Jane quilt. Design one from scratch and choose your blocks and fabrics Use the Dear Jane Project Wizard to guide you through designing a new quilt. Choose a quilt layout from the "Layout Library," where quilts are pre-sized to be king, queen, ..., all the way down to placemat sizes Unlimited borders in 23 different styles including special kites and scallops not even found in EQ.
There are over 2,500 scanned fabrics in Dear Jane, and if those aren't enough, you can even scan in and save your own fabrics! Check out the Fabric and Palette "Libraries" in Dear Jane to see the many choices.
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. Or, instead of getting fabrics one by one from the library, load an entire palette of coordinating scanned fabrics with just a few clicks. There are 23 palettes in the Palette library ranging from: 1930's, Batiks, Civil War fabrics, Neutrals, Plaids, Redwork, Scrappy, Stained Glass, Tropical and more... 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. You can even print the blocks just as they appear in Brenda's Dear Jane book! (Did we mention that you can print them in any size? Just because Jane's blocks were all 4.50" by 4.50", doesn't mean your blocks need to be that size too.)
Making a quilt like Jane Stickle's or using many of the blocks in her quilt is possible. 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.
Dear Jane software includes an installation CD and 264 page user manual with full color gallery quilts, 7 lessons, as well as how-to instructions for program features.
Dear Jane System Requirements:
- Windows 98 / 2000 / ME / XP
- 575 MB free hard disk space
- 64 MB RAM
- Suggested 16-bit/high-color monitor capable of 800x600 resolution
- CD-ROM drive
- Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher.