Dear Jane software
Code: A-DJANE
Type: Stand-Alone Designer Software
Price: $49.95
It's like a mini-EQ with Dear Jane blocks!
- Save a copy of a project
- Save a project for email
- Send mail
- Save the current palette as default
- Automatically save project file when sketchbook changes (Preferences dialog)
- Automatically back up project every (x) minutes (Preferences dialog)
- Remember Open and Save directories (Preferences dialog)
- Resizable tabbed palette for blocks, motifs, and triangles
- Resizable tabbed palette for prints and solids
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Dear Jane Look-alikes - 4 fabrics per block, triangle and kite |
- Search by block notecard text
- Expanded notes field in block and quilt notecards
- Project Wizard for previewing existing projects, creating new projects from a template, and guiding users through the steps to make a quilt
- Layout library includes over one hundred ready-made quilt layouts
- Copy of the Dear Jane quilt in metric sizes in the Layout Library, so you don't have to convert inches to centimeters
- Over 30 coordinating fabric palettes in the Palette library for selecting multiple fabrics at one time
- Improved Fabrics by Color section to fabric library in 38 colors
- Dear Jane Look-alike fabrics for creating an authentic Dear Jane quilt (fabric notecards include manufacturer and fabric line information)
- Import scanned fabrics in high color
- Save scanned or other virtual fabrics in user fabric libraries
- Tape measure tool
- Eyedropper tool for identifying solid or fabric
- One-step spraycan tool
- Random Recolor tool for shifting hue, saturation and brightness in increments, randomizing the quilt's colors, and mapping solid colors to prints from the sketchbook and vice versa
- 23 border styles, including 3 new styles not found in EQ5
- Blocks Fitted Inside border - allows you to line up or "fit together" the blocks of two separate adjacent borders, because the fitted border is reading off the previous border.
- Drop Blocks Fitted border - same as Blocks Fitted Inside border, but in a "drop" or staggered block style
- Triangles and Kites border for creating the Dear Jane border
- Keep current border setup when starting new quilt
- Clone borders streamlines design setup time
- Lock border sliders for easy resizing
- Ability to delete colors from sketchbook
- Improved block organization in sketchbook
- Page setup and fonts adjustment buttons on all print dialogs
- Print blocks without the patch outline
- Print quilts without block and patch outlines
- Print the overall size of the quilt under the header
- More fabric width choices in yardage estimates
- Ability to turn off the key block when printing templates
- Interactive print preview for moving and deleting templates
- Trimmed seam allowance at sharp corners of templates as you would do during construction
- Interactive print preview for moving and deleting sections of foundation patterns
- Rotary cutting charts
- HTML style help
- Rotate fabric
- HTML side of the program for learning
- Learn about Jane Stickle & her family's lives
- Learn about the Bennington Museum that houses her quilt
- 3 Block lists - referenced by block name, difficulty level, and A1 through M13 names
- Clickable quilt that leads to block, triangle, and kite tips within the program
- Block tips have references to Dear Jane book pages, BlockBase reference numbers, and blocks similar in construction that you may want to complete next
- Close up view of Jane's 1863 quilt
- 9 video interviews with Brenda Papadakis
- Read Dear Jane articles from various magazines
- Learn about the Dear Jane book by Brenda
- HTML style "My Block Chart" for crossing off blocks as you go or filling in with scans of you own blocks
- Printable journal pages in 3 styles for creating a history of your quilt
- 9 different certificates of completion in 3 styles signed by Brenda Papadakis
- Project ideas for Block Swaps (signature swaps, christmas swaps, spring fling swap, etc.)
- Project ideas for Round Robins (vertical Janes, rows of sharing, and the infamous Beatles exchange)
- More fun project ideas (table toppers, stationery, quilt labels, Dear Jane 'Toid Tins, and other quilt or sewing ideas)
- Links to the Dear Jane website, Dear Jane mail list, and other internet resources
- Sewing Methods for planning, sewing and finishing your quilt (about freezer paper, hand-piecing, appliqué, reverse appliqué, batting, quilting, and even inking signatures)
- Tips and supplies list for making your own Dear Jane
- 12 lessons for 12 blocks, sashes and assembly, quilting designs, and more by Brenda Papadakis. These are lessons for completing a small wallhanging which teaches you the construction techniques you'll need for making a full size Dear Jane quilt
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Jane's blocks ( + sashing) |
Blocks from the Dear Jane software |