Despite its limitations, The Electric Quilt is good enough to make me, a bona fide Mac fanatic, consider buying a PC. I mean, this is one hot program. Working with traditional blocks or designing your own, you can build a whole quilt on the screen, then print out the grid's blocks, sashing, and borders in perfectly proportioned templates. Oops, a little too small? Change the block size, and the template print-out changes accordingly -even if you have an old 9-pin Epson. This gives new meaning to "the cutting edge of quilt making." The list price is a little high - about the cost of materials for a quilt - but it does include excel-lent instruction, a workbook, and an ever-present help ribbon. EQ now includes a copy of EQView, from which other quilters' work can be displayed and printed.
Drawbacks: You still have to figure out the yardage, EQ can't deal with curves, and breaking out of the grid setting takes a lot of planning. That essentially rules out art quilts, but the rest of us can live with it. Fortunately for me, a Mac version is due in the spring of 1994.
The Electric Quilt: $US95. The Electric Quilt Company: +1 (419) 352 1134.
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