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ELECTRIC QUILT 8 IS HERE! The newest version of Electric Quilt software, EQ8, is now available! Ask for EQ8 at your local quilt shop, or order now! Do you own a previous version of EQ software? Upgrade now!
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View our latest books, EQ add-ons, and other software for quilters!
- Judy Martin Log Cabins
Judy Martin Log Cabins
Make Log Cabin quilts with Judy Martin! This add-on for EQ8 software gives you over 250 quilts, 60 blocks, and 13 Auto Borders from Judy Martin! Sew the quilts just as Judy designed them, or add your own touch!
- Stash 2023-01
EQ Stash Online 2023-01
Shop EQ Stash Online downloads to add new fabrics to your EQ! In this new collection, you'll get 1,200+ new fabrics from manufacturers like FreeSpirit, Michael Miller, Riley Blake, Moda, and more!
- Stash 2022-03
EQ Stash Online 2022-03
Shop EQ Stash Online downloads to add new fabrics to your EQ! In this new collection, you'll get 1,200+ new batiks from manufacturers like Banyan, Island Batik, Riley Blake, Hoffman, and more!
- EQ Sticker
EQ Sticker
Show your EQ pride with this limited-edition sticker!
- Software for Quilters
Software for Quilters
Turn the quilt in your head into the quilt on your bed! With EQ products, YOU can be the designer!
- Electric Quilt 8 (EQ8)
Electric Quilt 8
Design your own quilts and blocks and print them at any size you want! Use the 6,000+ manufacturer fabrics (or import your own), and 6,000+ copyright-free blocks (or draw your own) to create your own masterpiece! Print your fabric yardage estimates, foundation patterns, rotary-cutting charts, or templates! YOU are the designer!
- BlockBase+
BlockBase+
4,264 quilt blocks! Print rotary-cutting charts, templates, and foundation patterns in any size for the blocks from Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns book. Available for Windows and Mac. Use BlockBase+ on its own or link to EQ8!
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Software for Quilters
Turn the quilt in your head into the quilt on your bed! With EQ products, YOU can be the designer!
- Books
Books
Shop lesson books for EQ8 and other quilting books.
- Dear Jane Book
Dear Jane Book
Use this book as a guide to starting your Jane Journey using Brenda’s “bag of tricks” and get inspired by browsing all 5,602 historic pieces of the iconic quilt.
- Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns
Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns
4,000+ pieced quilt blocks, illustrated with both a line drawing and sample color suggestions, plus a detailed lookup system to help you identify blocks. This third edition includes 161 new blocks and it's in full color!
- EQ8 Lesson Books
EQ Lesson Books
Use our step-by-step lesson books to learn everything from beginner tutorials to advanced techniques!
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Books
Shop lesson books for EQ8 and other quilting books.
- EQ Add-on Blocks
EQ Add-on Blocks
EQ8 comes with over 6,000 blocks, but you can add so many more!
- BlockBase+
BlockBase+
4,264 quilt blocks! Print rotary-cutting charts, templates, and foundation patterns in any size for the blocks from Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns book. Available for Windows and Mac. Use BlockBase+ on its own or link to EQ8!
- Boutique Blocks
Boutique Blocks
EQ Boutique products install a variety of designer-created quilt blocks to use in your EQ software. Some products include complete quilt project files, too! Print templates, foundations and/or rotary cutting directions, then start sewing!
- Judy Martin Blocks
Judy Martin Blocks
Add gorgeous Judy Martin blocks to your EQ software! We have 13 collections to choose from, collect them all!
- Quiltmaker 100 Blocks
Quiltmaker 100 Blocks
100 fun, inspiring quilt block designs from 100 designers with techniques ranging from from applique to yo-yos, foundations to hand embroidery and of course, some simple piecing too. Some of these include sewing instructions!
- Kaleidoscope Blocks
Kaleidoscope Blocks
Like Kaleidoscope blocks? Download Kaleidoscope Collection for over 500 kaleidoscope-style foundation blocks that anyone can sew! Print the blocks from EQ in any size!
- Classic Applique Blocks
Classic Applique Blocks
There are three products in the Classic Applique series. Each add-on product features a different time period and style and installs a library of applique blocks to your EQ Block Library.
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EQ Add-on Blocks
EQ8 comes with over 6,000 blocks, but you can add so many more!
- EQ Add-on Quilts
EQ Add-on Quilts
Download EQ quilt projects from Karen K Stone, Judy Martin, Kimberly Einmo, and more! These add-ons for EQ will install project files into your My EQ folder. Open the project in your EQ software to print the patterns as they were designed, or edit the quilt to make it your own. Some products include block or fabric libraries and PDF files as well.
- Dear Jane
Dear Jane
This add-on for EQ8 software gives you all 225 blocks and the full quilt layout designed by Jane A. Stickle during the American Civil War. In EQ8 you can print templates, foundation patterns, and rotary cutting charts for the blocks at any size you need.
- Judy Martin Quilts
Judy Martin Quilts
Download Star Power or Log Cabins to add new quilts to your EQ software from Judy Martin's books! You'll get blocks and piecing diagrams too!
- Karen K. Stone Quilts
Karen K. Stone Quilts
Use EQ software to open 21 of Karen's most spectacular quilts. Print the foundation patterns, templates, or rotary-cutting charts for the quilts as she designed them, or edit them to make your own. Fabrics are included too!
- Kimberly Einmo Quilts
Kimberly Einmo Quilts
Use EQ software to open 39 of Kimberly's gorgeous quilts. Print the foundation patterns, templates, or rotary-cutting charts for the quilts as she designed them, or edit them to make your own.
- Boutique Quilts
Boutique Quilts
EQ Boutique quilt products install project files to your EQ software. You'll also get new blocks! Print templates, foundations and/or rotary cutting directions, then start sewing!
- View All Add-on Quilts
EQ Add-on Quilts
Download EQ quilt projects from Karen K Stone, Judy Martin, Kimberly Einmo, and more! These add-ons for EQ will install project files into your My EQ folder. Open the project in your EQ software to print the patterns as they were designed, or edit the quilt to make it your own. Some products include block or fabric libraries and PDF files as well.
- EQ Add-on Fabrics
EQ Add-on Fabrics
Shop EQ Stash Online downloads to add new fabrics to your EQ! Get collections from top manufacturers like Riley Blake Designs, Robert Kaufman, Michael Miller, and more!
- Batik Fabrics
Batik Fabrics
Add hundreds of batik fabrics to your EQ with EQ Stash Online downloads! You'll find collections from Hoffman, Northcott, Island Batik, Timeless Treasures, and more!
- Holiday Fabrics
Holiday Fabrics
Add hundreds of holiday fabrics to your EQ with EQ Stash Online downloads! You'll find collections from Andover, FreeSpirit, Hoffman, Moda, and more!
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EQ Add-on Fabrics
Shop EQ Stash Online downloads to add new fabrics to your EQ! Get collections from top manufacturers like Riley Blake Designs, Robert Kaufman, Michael Miller, and more!
- EQ Printables
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Use EQ Printables to take your designs from the screen to your final project! Quilter's Newsprint is perfect for paper piecing and the Inkjet Fabric Sheets make the best photo quilts!
- Printable Inkjet Fabric
Printable Inkjet Fabric
Print sharp, photo-quality images onto these amazingly soft inkjet fabric sheets. Take photos with your camera or use a scanner for old hand-written letters, a child’s artwork, or any cherished item you’d like to use in your next project. Just print, soak, and sew!
- Quilter’s Newsprint
Newsprint
Print quilting designs and paper piecing patterns on any printer or copy machine with no smearing. Sew directly over the newsprint and then tear away the paper to reveal clean and precise lines without creating a paper mess or pulling up threads!
- View All EQ Printables
View All EQ Printables
Use EQ Printables to take your designs from the screen to your final project! Quilter's Newsprint is perfect for paper piecing and the Inkjet Fabric Sheets make the best photo quilts!
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- Classes
- EQ At Home Classes
EQ At Home Classes
EQ At Home is a series of online video classes that will help you master your EQ software. You'll be designing your own quilts fast and feeling confident. Plus, you’ll have easy access to help!
- View EQ At Home Classes
View EQ At Home Classes
We have a series of 3 classes for EQ8 users. A Beginner class to get you familiar with the basics, then two more to fully master the software!
- EQ At Home FAQ
EQ At Home FAQ
Learn more about EQ At Home online classes and find answers to common questions.
- EQ Academy Classes
EQ Academy Classes
EQ Academy is an in-person workshop, hosted by the Electric Quilt Company in Ohio, dedicated to learning EQ8 software. You'll gain the tools you need to get the most out of your software and have fun!
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EQ Academy Classes
We've got classes for every skill level at EQ Academy! Learn everything about EQ8: drawing blocks, designing quilts, importing fabrics, and more!
- EQ Academy FAQ
EQ Academy FAQ
Learn more about EQ Academy and find answers to common questions such as upcoming events, hotel and travel information, and more.
- EQ Classes at Houston Quilt Festival
EQ8 Classes in Houston
Look for EQ classes at Quilt Festival in Houston!
- Other EQ Classes
Other EQ Classes
Take an EQ class from an independent teacher! If teachers tell us about their online EQ classes, we list them on our website.
- EQ8 for Beginners with Sandi Strenkowski
EQ8 for Beginners with Sandi Strenkowski
Learn everything you need to know about creating a quilt in EQ8 with engaging video lessons, worksheets, and hands-on exercises. Free sample lessons available.
- EQ8 Training with Kari Schell
EQ8 Training with Kari Schell
Kari Schell loves to share her knowledge of quilting and specializes in training for Electric Quilt 8. Check our her group, "Tech Know Quilters".
- Get Your Quilting Geek On! with Marilyn Strowmatt
Get Your Quilting Geek On! with Marilyn Strowmatt
Learn how to take EQ8 designs to Art & Stitch Base and Plus, Brother Scan-N-Cut, your embroidery machine, and Pro-Stitcher and onto a fabulous quilted creation!
- EQ8 Serendipity in Russia with Gulnara Polyanskaya
EQ8 Serendipity in Russia with Gulnara Polyanskaya
Online EQ8 classes in Russia!
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Other EQ Classes
Take an EQ class from an independent teacher! If teachers tell us about their online EQ classes, we list them on our website.
- Hire an EQ Teacher
Hire an EQ Teacher
Looking for an EQ8 teacher to teach at your quilt shop, guild meeting, or other event? Check out our list of teachers all over the world!
- Teach EQ
Teach EQ
We are happy to provide you with information about setting up an EQ8 classroom and provide resources to make your teaching experience more enjoyable!
- EQ At Home Classes
- Freebies & Lessons
- EQ Design Challenges
- EQ Design Challenge & Giveaway – Vertex
EQ Design Challenge & Giveaway – Vertex
June’s Fabric of the Month is Vertex by QT Fabrics, which is their newest blender collection! With an array of 84 colors, this textural print will become your go-to favorite. Select colors are also available in 108” wide fabric too. Ask your favorite independent quilt shop for Vertex and tell them QT Fabrics sent you! A bundle of these fabrics will…
- EQ Design Challenge & Giveaway – Vertex
- EQ Project of the Month
EQ Project of the Month
Every month, you can download a new, free project for EQ!
- Radiant Rainbow
Radiant Rainbow
Fun project for EQ8 or EQ7! The files will open right up into your program. Click the “View Sketchbook” button. There you’ll find the quilts, blocks, and fabrics included in the project! Please note: If you open this project from your download folder and save it will continue to save the project to your downloads folder. We recommend saving the file to your My EQ8 folder. To do this click File > Save As and navigate to your My EQ8 folder.
- Magnificent Memorial
Magnificent Memorial
Fun project for EQ8 or EQ7! The files will open right up into your program. Click the “View Sketchbook” button. There you’ll find the quilts, blocks, and fabrics included in the project! Please note: If you open this project from your download folder and save it will continue to save the project to your downloads folder. We recommend saving the file to your My EQ8 folder. To do this click File > Save As and navigate to your My EQ8 folder.
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EQ Project of the Month
Every month, you can download a new, free project for EQ!
- EQ Fabric of the Month
EQ Fabric of the Month
Every month, you can download a new, free fabric collection for EQ!
- Vertex
Vertex
Download Vertex by QT Fabrics! With an array of 84 colors, this textural print will become your go-to favorite!
- Color Club
Color Club
Download Color Club by Heather Valentine for Windham Fabrics! The collection is the perfect color assortment to create patchwork pieces, rainbow quilts bags and more.
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EQ Fabric of the Month
Every month, you can download a new, free fabric collection for EQ!
- EQ8 Design & Discover
- Design & Discover – EasyDraw Tips and Tricks
Design & Discover – EasyDraw Tips and Tricks
EasyDraw is for pieced blocks. You can also use PolyDraw, or Applique. With EasyDraw all the lines must touch each other and/or the edges of the block. Think of your lines as seams. For example, in the first block the lines do not touch the edges. The center pieces are “floating”. When you click the COLOR tab you won’t see…
- Design & Discover – Coloring Scrappy Quilts
Design & Discover – Coloring Scrappy Quilts
First of all, you definitely don’t have to manually color each individual patch to make a quilt look scrappy! Lots of times if you are planning on sewing a scrappy quilt you wouldn’t be using the specific red fabric you’re coloring your quilt with, you would just be using a red from your stash anyways. So, the first step is…
- Design & Discover – EasyDraw Tips and Tricks
- EQ8 Lessons with Lori
EQ8 Lessons with Lori
Learn something new from EQ Teacher, Lori Miller!
- EQ8 Lessons with Lori: Barnyard Day Horizontal Strip Quilt
EQ8 Lessons with Lori: Barnyard Day Horizontal Strip Quilt
Hello EQ8 Friends! In this post I am sharing a great idea to use a variety of themed blocks and organize them using a Horizontal Strip Quilt. Horizontal strip layouts are made up of long horizontal pieced or unpieced “strips.” Strip Quilts can be very versatile adapting to different sized blocks easily. I often use this layout for a…
- EQ8 Lessons with Lori – Hexagon Quilt Layouts Part 3
EQ8 Lessons with Lori – Hexagon Quilt Layouts Part 3
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…
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EQ8 Lessons with Lori
Learn something new from EQ Teacher, Lori Miller!
- EQ8 Lessons with Yvonne
EQ8 Lessons with Yvonne
Learn something new from EQ Teacher, Yvonne Menear!
- Lessons with Yvonne–May 21, 2023–Quick and Easy Disappearing 9-Patch
Lessons with Yvonne–May 21, 2023–Quick and Easy Disappearing 9-Patch
Disappearing 9-patch blocks are extremely popular to use in quilts. They are easy to make in EQ8 using the Serendipity tools. With just a few clicks you can see all the different variations of a 9-patch block using EQ8. Open your EQ8 program and create a new project called Disappearing 9 Patch. Be sure to click the OK at the…
- Lessons with Yvonne–March 19, 2023 Easter Design
Lessons with Yvonne–March 19, 2023 Easter Design
I love having a quick and easy Easter design handy for the grandkids. I don’t always have time to make a quilt, but my EQ8 program will produce an easy outline to help the kids be creative with paints or crayons to color a design I create. Open your EQ8 program and name a new project ‘Easter’ on the opening…
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EQ8 Lessons with Yvonne
Learn something new from EQ Teacher, Yvonne Menear!
- EQ8 Block Spotlight
EQ8 Block Spotlight
Every month, we highlight a block from the EQ8 Block Library and challenge you to design something with it!
- EQ8 Block Spotlight: Nine Patch Art Square
EQ8 Block Spotlight: Nine Patch Art Square
Welcome to the EQ8 Block Spotlight series! 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. We hope these posts will inspire you to try something new and expand your EQ skills! This month’s block: Nine Patch Art Square…
- EQ8 Block Spotlight: Daffodil
EQ8 Block Spotlight: Daffodil
Welcome to the EQ8 Block Spotlight series! 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. We hope these posts will inspire you to try something new and expand your EQ skills! This month’s block: Daffodil Where to find…
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EQ8 Block Spotlight
Every month, we highlight a block from the EQ8 Block Library and challenge you to design something with it!
- EQ Pearls of Wisdom
EQ Pearls of Wisdom
We’re celebrating 30 years! Since the pearl is the traditional symbol for 30 years, we’re sharing EQ Pearls of Wisdom from our friends! There's a new post each week, plus, each post includes a free project download or giveaway!
- EQ Artists
EQ Artists
Check out the talented designers who use EQ!
- EQ Quilt Gallery
EQ Quilt Gallery
You won't believe your eyes when you see the amazing projects our users created with EQ!
- BlockBase Gallery
BlockBase Gallery
Show off what you create from BlockBase or the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns! Did you make the sampler quilt in the Free PDF?! Post pictures of your quilts or blocks here.
- Dear Jane Gallery
Dear Jane Gallery
Love Dear Jane quilts? Check out what quilters have made using our Dear Jane software.
- EQ Blog Badges
EQ Blog Badges
Use these badges on Your website to show you use, teach, or sell EQ products!
- AccuQuilt GO! Downloads
AccuQuilt GO! Downloads
Download free EQ8 Block Library files to design quilts based on AccuQuilt die shapes!
- EQ Design Challenges
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