Dear Jane Quilting Design Software - Discontinued
Inspired by Brenda Papadakis's book Dear Jane: The Two Hundred Twenty-Five Patterns from the 1863 Jane A. Stickle Quilt, this software will help you see how other quilters have made their own beautiful Dear Jane quilts and even design your own on your computer screen. From there you can print patterns for your quilts or the blocks, read sewing instructions, print quilt labels, surf Dear Jane web sites and so much more.
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| Use the Patterns |
Don’t sit there tracing, drafting and re-drafting the blocks yourself; print them out from Dear Jane! This program includes all the block patterns to make the original sampler quilt, plus over 300 more! That’s a total of over 550 patterns that can be printed in any size. These blocks include:
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| Design Quilts |
All of the powerful quilt design features of Electric Quilt are here!
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| Color with Fabric |
| There are over 2,500 scanned fabrics in Dear Jane, and if those aren’t enough, you can even scan in and save your own fabrics! Check out the Fabric and Palette “Libraries” in Dear Jane to see the many choices. Browse fabrics by color and find the shade you are looking for. Use any of the Dear Jane look-alikes to make an authentic Dear Jane with look-alike fabrics you may find in stores. Or, instead of getting fabrics one by one from the library, load an entire palette of coordinating scanned fabrics with just a few clicks. There are 23 palettes in the Palette library ranging from: 1930’s, Batiks, Civil War fabrics, Neutrals, Plaids, Redwork, Scrappy, Stained Glass, Tropical, and more. You can even create and save your favorite or your own scanned fabrics as a group in the palette library. |
| Print Patterns, etc. |
Print your own Dear Jane block patterns in any size, as blocks, templates, foundation patterns, or rotary cutting charts. You can even print the blocks just as they appear in Brenda’s Dear Jane book!
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| Block Tips and Project Ideas |
| Read Brenda’s sewing instructions for each block. Take a 12 – Lesson Dear Jane class from Brenda as you make her small “In the Manner of Jane” wallhanging, while learning the techniques to construct all the sampler blocks. Make a Dear Jane “Table Topper,” start a row quilt with friends, and much more. |
| Chart Your Progress |
| To chart the progress of your quilt, you can fill “My Block Chart” with scans of your Dear Jane blocks! Or if you don’t have access to a scanner, print off a copy of the chart and put and “X” through each block as you complete it. Print certificates of completion to mark the milestones on your Jane Journey. Or surprise a Dear Jane friend with a certificate. There are nine certificates to choose from, each in three styles. |
| Browse the Gallery |
| Making a quilt like Jane Stickle’s or using many of the blocks in her quilt is possible. See the inspiring finished Dear Jane quilts on display in the quilt gallery and in project ideas. There are over 60 quilts, many of which have close-ups of blocks, stitching, or quilt labels as well as notes from the quilters themselves. |
Includes:
- CD to install
- 264 page user manual with full color gallery quilts
- 7 lessons
- How-to instructions for program features
- Over 550 patterns
- 2,500 scanned fabrics
- Full design ability
- Pattern printing capabilities
System requirements for Dear Jane:
- Windows XP®, Windows Vista®, Windows 7®, Windows 8®, or Windows 10®
- 575 MB free hard disk space
- 64 MB RAM suggested
- 16-bit/high-color monitor capable of 800x600 resolution
- CD-ROM drive
- Internet Explorer 8.0 or higher (download the most current version of Internet Explorer for free from www.microsoft.com)
To watch Brenda's Video Interviews (*.AVI format)
Windows Media Player (set as default player for .AVI video files) (download the most current version of Windows Media Player for free from www.microsoft.com)
To view and print the Journal pages (*.PDF format)
Adobe Reader (download the most current version of Acrobat Reader for free from www.adobe.com)
