The most user-friendly quilt design software on the market.

In Electric Quilt 8, you can…

1. Donna Lynn Thomas

   I’ve used EQ software extensively since it’s earliest days for all my books, patterns, and workshop designs. EQ8 introduces a totally new look and format that’s extremely user friendly. I’ve already started my designing my new projects on it. Thank you EQ for the best update ever!
2. Alyce Blyth

   Having used EQ7 for several years, I was excited to see that EQ8 has taken all my favourite features and made them even better. The built-in fabric library is fantastic, with a great range of manufacturers’ basics already included, from Moda to Cotton + Steel. This makes it so much easier to design my quilt patterns, knowing that the fabrics I use will easily match to my stash, or my local quilt store, without needing to download swatches from the manufacturers and upload them myself. Having them organised by collection and also by colour is extremely useful. The new interface is also much more intuitive, so much so that my 8-year old son can easily design his own blocks and quilts!
3. Amy Friend

   I love foundation paper piecing design! EQ7 made the process so much easier for me but EQ8 adds features that make the process even more enjoyable. Foundation pattern pieces can be color coded. The foundation sections can be rotated in print preview. Block colorings are undisturbed when a drawing needs to be edited. And when numbering and grouping foundation sections, the window will now accommodate a rectangular block. Lastly, when my quilt top design is mocked up, I can remove the foundation lines from the screen with a single click! I am thrilled with these improvements and look forward to discovering more!
4. Christa Watson

   I love EQ8! The updated interface and new features are so intuitive and easy to use. Being a new fabric designer, I love being able to import swatches of fabrics I’m working on so that I can see how they’ll look in upcoming quilt patterns I design!
5. Kerry Goulder

   I loved the EQ7 program and felt it was an invaluable tool for my detailed designs, however there were some little quirks I noticed and had a hard time with (like recoloring the whole block again after a very slight line change). Now with EQ8, the glitches I once knew are gone, and the interface is more user friendly than before. EQ8 is allowing me to discover options and tools I couldn’t find quickly within EQ7 which is beyond exciting. Designing my intricate Dog Series blocks and other various upcoming quilts in EQ8 just got a thousand times easier!
   (EQ MAC user since 2015)
6. Peggy Gelbrich (Yamhill, OR)

   Hello EQ!
   I just downloaded EQ8. Wow! I am so impressed with the new look. I’ve loved EQ since version 4 and was honored to attend the first Electric Quilt Academy. I love your program. I teach quilt making and especially like teaching my own EQ designed quilts. Congratulations on EQ8!! You’ve done a great job.
7. Shelley Needham (Freeman, MO)

   I just want to say that I am in LOVE with EQ8!!! I’ve been working on custom table runner mock-ups for a repeat Etsy shop customer, and it is so quick and easy! I can design some options and send her jpeg images in just a matter of minutes. It used to take me forever to figure out what I was doing in EQ7, but EQ8 is so much more intuitive. I’m so glad I upgraded!
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   Sindy Rodenmayer

   I am delighted with the advances made in Electric Quilt 8. As an avid applique designer, I was most impressed with the one button ability to reverse templates for printing. No more flipping blocks before printing, or hours of holding my templates to a window for tracing onto fusible. In addition, the drawing tools are smoother and it is so convenient to have all the patch options in one window!
9. 
   Susan (Vancouver Island, BC Canada)

   I ordered my upgrade to EQ8 as well as the two new books. They were shipped Oct 31st – they arrived Nov 6th – Wow!! North Eastern US to to Vancouver Island in
   a week. I’m thrilled, as always, Electric Quilt is the Best – Best Software, Best Support. I started with EQ2, migrated to the Mac version and loved how seamless it was.
   EQ8 is amazing – I love the interface changes – fresh and easy to recognize. I’m so pleased I have the Block Library book – it makes looking for blocks so much easier and I
   am finding blocks that I hadn’t noticed before. Now I’m waiting for the “Time Store” to open as I need more hours in the day for EQ. Thank you to all!!
10. 
    Rebecca Grace (Charlotte, NC)

    I’m a longtime EQ7 user and I just upgraded to EQ8. I’m in love with the software, and the new interface and tools are fantastic! Tools are easier to find, block and fabric libraries are easier to browse, and I love the updated Quick Start projects that now include T-shirt quilt layouts and projects for modern quilters. Dollar for dollar, my EQ software is one of the best values in my sewing room – gone is the frustration of spending weeks piecing blocks for a vision in my mind, only to lay out the finished blocks and see that I missed the mark. I haven’t had to purchase a single quilt pattern since investing in EQ because the software gives me patterns for thousands of blocks in any size I want them, whether I want to rotary cut, foundation paper piece, or use templates. Thanks for an AWESOME software product that has taken my quilting to a whole new level!
11. 
    Charlene Knoll

    Just wanted you to know I like the new layout in EQ8. My initial impression is that it is very user friendly. EQ7 is great, but I sometimes found it hard to use when I had not used it for awhile. Spent time hunting for how do I do a task — time I really did not have. I love the fact that the how to’s are right on the screen. It is great that the fabrics are displayed and on the same screen is the ability to go to a specific color without having to scroll through all the fabrics to get there. I could go on and on, but you get the idea. I am pleased I updated.
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    Margaret Andrews (Craig, AK)

    I just want to say THANK YOU to the people at support. I am on a MAC, switching from EQ7 to EQ8 and your instructions have been wonderful. I had Add-on Libraries and was trying to figure out how to move them to EQ8 from EQ7. I went to the support page and went to Add-on Libraries and there were the instructions for the MAC. They were written step by step and I was able to follow them and move all of my fabric and products very easily. Using these instructions, I was able to make sure that both my MacBook Pro and my iMac had all of the components as neither one of them had all of the programs. I was able to use a stick (or whatever you call it) and move things around and now each machine is the same. How wonderful! I didn’t even get lost! Thank you for making EQ8 so easy for Mac users. You all and your program are stupendous!

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Minimum System Requirements:

• Windows 10, Windows 8.1, or Windows 7 with Service Pack 1;
• macOS High Sierra (10.13), Sierra (10.12), El Capitan (10.11), Yosemite (10.10);

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