Blockbase, Over 4,000 Historic Block Patterns for Today's Modern Quilter: Pattern Printing Software from Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns by Electric Quilt

Description

BlockBase is a block powerhouse. The same patterns that sold in 1928 for 15 cents each are yours in BlockBase for less than 2 cents apiece in this CD-ROM Version of Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns. No other pattern collection comes close. BlockBase has virtually every pieced block published from 1836-1970 — over 4300 patterns, ready to print as patterns in any size. The Electric Quilt Company has added hundreds of blocks to BlockBase to make sure it contains all pieced blocks from historic collections. BlockBase includes a fully-illustrated, 80 page user manual. Using it is easy: Find a block, click on it, choose Print, and type the pattern size you want. Print: any size; as templates; as numbered foundation blocks; as rotary cutting instructions; as whole block designs in color, grayscale or outlines. Special search categories include blocks perfect for: Reproduction Quilts; Miniature Quilts; Color Studies; Optical Quilts; Holidays. Search for: State blocks; Anniversary or wedding blocks; Occupations — find symbolic blocks perfect for your favorite lawyer, doctor, teacher or 30 other occupations; All star, leaf, tree, flower, airplane, animal, butterfly blocks, or dozens of other searchable categories. BlockBase is the ultimate quilt block resource. While Blockbase can be used by itself, it can also be used with Electric Quilt software. This lets you use EQ's design tools on the blocks, coloring the BlockBase blocks and setting them into quilt layouts. Getting BlockBase blocks into EQ7 is easy. The two programs will link together, letting you open the BlockBase library from inside EQ. You can also gather up a group of blocks in BlockBase, save them together, then open that project up in EQ. Many EQ users find BlockBase their favorite companion software because of the way it expands the block library by over 4000 blocks. System requirements for BlockBase: Windows XP / Vista / 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) ; 20 MB free hard disk space; CD-ROM drive.

Platforms

Windows 7

Product Features

• Over 4000 pieced block patterns
• Amazing historical as well as pattern resource for quilters and quilt historians
• Blocks categorized in 22 categories just as in the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns by Barbara Brackman
• Export and save blocks as bitmaps of a size you specify
• Print blocks at any size as foundation/ paper piecing patterns, templates, rotary cutting charts