New Editions: Encyclopedia Pieced Patterns & BlockBase

During 2020 Ann Rutter & Sara Sueberling at Electric Quilt and I have been working on revising my indexes to pieced quilt patterns.


The published index started in 1979 with typed, xeroxed pages bound in a notebook.

In 1993 the American Quilters Society published the paper index with my inked drawings as a bound book, which has been out of print for years, although you can still buy that version as a PDF.
https://shop.americanquilter.com/1411-ebook-encyclopedia-of-pieced-quilt-patterns.html


Then Penny McMorris at Electric Quilt converted it to a PC compatible digital program BlockBase with digital drawings and the ability to draw any of the patterns any size.


That was a long time ago and computer operating systems change over the years so it became obsolete and out of print (so to speak.)


Last year Ann wondered if we could re-work the digital program to make it operate in both MAC and PC systems.

Let's do, says I. We added a bunch of new blocks that had been haunting me because they weren't in there in the first place. Lots of Laura Wheeler/Alice Brooks designs that I'd missed.


Ann and Sara added them and redrew all the blocks.


Then, since we had such lovely new drawings, why not publish a new book? So Sara laid it out.


The whole package should be ready at the same time, probably late fall.  I'll keep you posted.
And YES---the program is MAC compatible.

Check with EQ for pre-orders in a couple of weeks:
https://electricquilt.com/

More links with more information
https://doyoueq.com/blog/?p=34632

https://electricquilt.com/online-shop/encyclopedia-of-pieced-quilt-patterns/#tab-FAQ