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22 unique & stylish projects for the home: 8 quilts, 3 table runners, 7 pillows, 1 floor cushion and 3 bags.
Plus 9 bonus projects. All with clear, step-by-step illustrated sewing instructions for all skill levels.
Print patterns, yardage charts, and sew. Preview some of the projects here.

Here's a taste of a few of Amy's fabulous quilts, table runners, pillows and bags!
 





Sew them as designed – or customize in thousands of possible ways using the software's tools and virtual swatches of Amy's vibrant fabrics.
Quilts


Amy Butler is a fabric, home, fashion and print designer known for her modern approach to botanical,
geometric and romantic inspirations. With spirited color and confident combinations of print,
Amy has created a freshened view of the many product categories she now designs.
As a sewing pattern designer, Amy has brought modern styling to the sewing arts and inspired a new
generation of young women around the world to “find their own style.”
Amy's growing brand has become synonymous with creativity, sustainability,
quality and great style. Amy's latest lifestyle book, Amy Butlers Midwest Modern
(Stewart, Tabori & change), profiles her personal passions and lifestyle surrounding
exotic gardens and the lush, vibrant inspirations of her daily life.
In 2009, several new Amy Butler licensed product lines will launch in the USA:
    • Organic bed and bath: Amy Butler for Welspun, to be sold at Bed, Bath and Beyond stores starting July 2009
    • Rugs: Amy Butler for Chandra, handcrafted, 100% wool area rugs available June 2009
    • Fashion and lifestyle bags: The Amy Butler for Kalencom Collection, in stores fall 2009
Designed from her studio in America’s Midwest, Amy’s fabrics, sewing patterns, papers, handbags,
design and project books, and home décor products are sold worldwide. Visit www.amybutlerdesign.com to learn more.
“I’m so proud of my beautiful designs in Softwares. I love the way this digital collection allow sewers and
quilters to customize and completely plan their projects – and better yet, to see the results right before their eyes.”
- Amy Butler

Price: £19.95 Inc. UK 1st Class postage and VAT
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Kaleidoscope CD
 

Can you sew these blocks?

If you can, then you can sew these too!


 

Introducing Kaleidoscope Collection by Andrea Bishop
with over 500 kaleidoscope style foundation blocks for EQ5 & EQ6.

Easy to install
The CD installs these blocks right into the EQ5 or EQ6 Block Library 
so you'll be using 
them in seconds.

Over 500 blocks
Huge variety of styles: Stars, compasses,
pinwheels, flowers, eight-pointed stars and more.

No drawing skills required
These blocks are ready to recolour and set into layouts in EQ5 or EQ6.
Enough blocks for hundreds of projects with no block used twice!

Print any size
These “sew-fast” foundations are pre numbered and ready
to print from EQ5 or EQ6 in ANY size.

Easy to sew
Each block has 8 precisely marked units, making even the most complex
blocks easy enough for beginners. Sew each unit.
Join the units and the block is done!
Or skip sections as you sew to simplify your unit.

Creative to design with
Enlarge for medallions, group for samplers. Any combination works together perfectly.
Great for use with EQ6’s new Rotate Fabric tool.

Two corner styles for variety
Choose from star point corners or strong diagonals—
each produces a different secondary design effect.

Twelve free web lessons
Join the club! The Kaleidoscope Collectors will use EQ5/EQ6 and this Kaleidoscope Collection CD
for 12 lessons. Learn to modify a block, try out quilt design variations,
draw from scratch, and learn to rotate fabric
   to complement the Kaleidoscope design.

Andrea Bishop is a well known EQ staff member, the EQ Webmaster,
and a designer who knows EQ5 and EQ6 inside and out.
She wrote the EQ6 User Manual and is EQ’s “go-to person”  on drawing difficult blocks.
As an EQ educator, Andrea has made dozens of appearances on
America Quilts Creatively, QNN-TV, and Quilting Arts television shows.

* The block patterns cannot be printed directly from the CD.
The block patterns, projects, and fabrics are installed into EQ5 or EQ6.
Use EQ5 software or EQ6 software to print the patterns.

Price: £19.95 Inc. UK Postage & Vat
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Angie Padilla's
My Dream House CD Cover
Play house with over 450 pieces to mix, match and make!

The block patterns and projects are installed into EQ5 or EQ6.
Use EQ5 software or EQ6 software to print the patterns. Use these projects with EQ5 or EQ6.

* The block patterns cannot be printed directly from the CD.

House
    CD includes
    • 15 dolls
    • 32 quilts
    • 127 blocks
    • 282 motifs
    • EQ5 and EQ6 projects
    • My Dream House Block Library
    • BONUS Children's Doll House project on PDF
Flip Fold

Using EQ5 or EQ6, modify Angie's prize winning designs for fused or needle-turn appliqué in any size you prefer.
Make Angie's quilts as designed. Create your own pillows, tote bags, wall hangings, and quilts using her motifs.
Quickly print Angie's designs onto pre-treated photo fabric, cut out, fuse and quilt.
So easy! You're the "interior designer" for your own Dream House projects.

Includes seasonal decorations — decorate your dream house for the holidays!

Contains blank houses to fill with furniture and accessories. Perfect for children/grandchildren projects.
Make furniture repositional by backing with flannel to "stick" to your house.


Price : £16.95 - Inc. UK Postage & VAT

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Sue Spargo's
CD Cover
 

Sue Spargo's folk-art imagery, melding African mystery with English charm,
reflects her multi-cultural roots in Africa and England.
Her projects can combine wools and cottons, with beads, button and embroidery embellishment.
Quilt

Learn to blend wool, cotton and embellishments, creating easy folk-art appliqué projects using this stand-alone software.
Fuse, needle-turn, or print the designs right onto fabric!

Make it like Sue or make it you!

    * 16 projects
    * 190 blocks
    * 1300 fabrics
    * over 1500 design elements
    * dozens of quilt layouts
    * quilt design tools
    * sewing instructions
    * video interviews with Sue
    * quilt photo gallery
    * endless fun!
Choose
Choose your project

Choose one of Sue's projects, or a blank quilt or pillow layout.
 

Select
Select blocks and fabrics

Select from 190 blocks. Fill your layout, or modify Sue's. Mix & match, rotate, rearrange,
choose from 1300 fabrics and recolour.

Recolour your blocks with fabrics from Sue's special palettes. Find fabrics by color, or in ready-made color
combinations arranged in special "Sue Spargo palettes."
 

Print
 

Print perfect patterns for your quilt. Print templates, rotary cutting charts, yardage estimates and more.
You can also print coloured pictures of each block, and of the whole quilt.
The Quilt Info sheet will give you the information you need on
quilt, block, border and sash sizes, plus any notes you keep in the program.

Learn
Watch video interviews with Sue. See embroidery and
embellishment tips, plus a gallery of quilts for color ideas.

Price: £18.95 inc. UK postage & VAT
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QNM 2007 CD

A year of beautiful quilts…
Resize, recolour, print patterns and sewing instructions, print and read selected workshops,
features, lessons and tips from experts.

Articles from the 2007 Issues

Read a selection of the best articles from Quilters Newsletter's 2007 issues:

• Two-colour binding
• Landscape postcards
• Yo-yo flowers
• Raw-edge appliqué
• Three-patch triangles
• Tumbling blocks by machine
• Perfect Feathered Stars
• Skinny bias stems
• Quilt sleeves/labels  • Foolproof trapunto
• Color ideas from Roberta Horton,
   Kaffe Fassett & Liza Prior Lucy
• Using ethnic fabrics
• Altering fabrics with bleach
• Embellished family history quilts
• Papercut appliqué
• And much more…
 

Quilters Newsletter Archives

Read a selection of the best articles from Quilters Newsletter's past issues:

Taking the Math Out
This 13-part series includes almost every yardage chart from one of the most sought after out-of-print quilt books—
now updated for rotary cutting! Charts for:
• lone star quilts
• diamonds
• half-square triangles
• quarter-square triangles
• hexagons  • equilateral triangles
• quilt backs
• borders
binding

Fudge Factor
4 articles full of tips & tricks for successful machine quiltmaking.

Favourable Settings
10 articles on choosing the best blocks for each quilt setting style.

Use these Quilts as Designed...or Become a Designer!


Intrepid Travellers by Susan Ennis
Make these beautiful quilts exactly as they appeared in Quilters Newsletter.
Or use the software to design your own quilts. It's easy!
Learn from the Pros!
Discover the latest techniques for machine stitching.
Learn how quilt artists work with color.
Read the stories behind the cover quilts.
Resize

Add or remove borders and sashing. Change sizes in a snap!

Crossed Canoes by Peggy Gelbrich
 

Recolour
Hundreds of fabric swatches to choose from. Just point and click to recolour.

Stars of England by Kaffe Fassett
Redesign

Start from any of the 31 quilts included.

Emerald Spring by Nancy Rink • Sew Many Pieces by Sandra A. Russ
• Cosmic Odyssey by Doris Wells • Tulip Baskets by Becky Goldsmith
• Diamonds and Arrowheads by Peggy Gelbrich • Winter Garden by Liz Jones
• The Comet by Jan Beckert • Miss Kitty by Janine Holzman


 
Print any pattern any size

• templates
• rotary cutting
• foundations

Print
• sewing instructions
• yardage estimates
• border patterns... great for
    pantographs too!

Stand-alone software. Also fully compatible with EQ6!

CD includes:

• 31 quilt projects
• 90 articles
• Quilt design tools
• Color tools
• Border tools
• Bonus blocks & fabrics
• Help videos

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Price; £18.95 - Inc. UK Postage & VAT



 

Companion CD in association with C & T Publishing

Margaret J Miller's

ANGLEPLAY™
Angle Play Cover

If you have EQ5, Margaret J. Miller’s new Half-RECTANGLE Triangle shape will open a world
of inventive design possibilities now you can play with these designs in EQ5.
Combine AnglePlay™ blocks and layouts for quilts that look so complex, but are so easy to cut and sew.

Traditional Ohio Star
using Half-Square Triangles
Ohio Block

Modified Ohio Star
using Half-Rectangle Triangles
Quick to cut – simple to sew – surprising effects!
Modified Ohio Star

The magic of AnglePlay™ quilts is the change in the angle of the diagonal seam as the grid unit
changes from square to rectangular, and from one rectangle shape to another.

All Angle Play Blocks
This EQ5 Companion CD includes:

* All 84 blocks from the AnglePlay™ Blocks book
* Bonus 225 additional AnglePlay™ blocks
* 18 new custom AnglePlay™ quilt layouts
* Over 600 fabrics in a new library
* A bonus palette of fabrics
 
 

Margaret J. Miller is the author of six books, and a studio quiltmaker who travels widely, giving lectures and workshops
on colour and design. She is known for her innovative work “changing the angle” in patchwork design,
and is the inventor of the AnglePlay™ templates for rotary cutting the HalfRECTANGLE triangle shape.
Margaret lives near Seattle, Washington.
 

* The block patterns cannot be printed directly from the CD. The block patterns, projects,
and fabrics are installed into EQ5 or EQ6. Use EQ5 or 6 software to print the patterns.
 

Price: £14.40 - Inc. UK Postage & Vat @ 17.5%

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 Judy Martin
'Stars and Sets'

The Electric Quilt Company celebrates one of America's most popular and prolific designer's 35 years of quiltmaking with this
"Collector's Edition" CD-ROM of over 200 of Judy Martin' favourite original star block designs.


You'll see stars! Choose from exciting variations on Lone Stars, Compass Point Stars, Friendship Stars, LeMoyne Stars,
Ohio Stars, Variable Stars and more - from easy to masterpiece blocks! Each is a beautiful Judy Martin original with it's own piecing diagram.
Judy's suggestions for sashing & sets, plus a quilt photo gallery from quilters all over the world,
will spark your creativity and give you fabric colouring ideas.

Choose your quilt layout. Choose from 50 bed-sized quilts, 77 special sets and sashed quilts, or 26 ready-made quilts.
These stunnng quilts are just waiting for your star block and fabric choices. You can print templates or rotary cutting patterns for everything.


Blocks
Fill your layout with star blocks, or add any of the additional 200 alternate blocks Judy suggests to create stunning
combinations of stars and chains, LeMoyne grids, crossing designs and more.
It's easy to create that star-sprinkled Judy Martin look with the right blocks.

Fabrics

Recolour your blocks with fabrics from Judy's special palettes. Find fabrics by color,
or in ready-made color combinations arranged in special "Judy Martin palettes."

Print perfect patterns for your quilt. Print rotary cutting charts and templates, yardage estimates and more.
You can also print coloured pictures of each block, and of the whole quilt. The Quilt Info sheet will give you the
information you need on quilt, block, border and sash sizes, plus any notes you keep in the program.
 

No one knows rotary cutting like Judy Martin! As the author of 17 quilt books, and former editor of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine,
she has real rotary cutting savvy. Find out how even your pin size can make a difference, and many more hints for perfect cutting and piecing.
 

Price  £21.95 inc. UK Postage & VAT

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3 Classic Appliqué CD's

 NOTE - ALL require EQ5 or EQ6 Software - they are NOT stand alone

System Requirements: as for EQ5 - only 5 MB Hard Disk space required

1. Folk Art Blocks
19th-century appliqué blocks. Perfect for Civil War quilts and more. The blocks on this CD date from 1850-1900, a period known for red and green appliqué,
appliqué samplers and quilts featuring four large appliqué blocks. This collection is perfect for Civil War or late Victorian reproduction quilts — or new quilts with country charm.