Dear Jane Quilting Software

Don’t sit there tracing, drafting and re-drafting the blocks yourself; print them out from Dear Jane! This program includes all the block patterns to make the original sampler quilt, plus over 300 more! That’s a total of over 550 patterns that can be printed in any size. These 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 quilt 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
• A Recolor tool that works like magic

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!

• Templates – Specify the size of seam allowance around each patch. Move or delete unnecessary templates before you print.
• Foundation Patterns – Dear Jane numbers each pattern, separating units and adding seam allowance. Move or delete unnecessary foundation pattern sections before you print.
• Blocks – Print them as line drawings, in gray scale, in color, as Brenda’s patterns, or as quilting stencils! Print off your favorite blocks as line drawings and make quick coloring book pages for children.
• Rotary Cutting Charts – Print rotary cutting charts for blocks in Dear Jane.
• Quilts – Print your quilts as line drawings or colored with fabrics.
• Fabric Yardage Estimates – Calculate yardage in inches or centimeters and print yardage charts.