Dear Jane Features

Dear Jane software

Code: A-DJANE
Type: Stand-Alone Designer Software
Price: $49.95

1. Save a copy of a project
2. Save a project for email
3. Send mail
4. Save the current palette as default
5. Automatically save project file when sketchbook changes (Preferences dialog)
6. Automatically back up project every (x) minutes (Preferences dialog)
7. Remember Open and Save directories (Preferences dialog)
8. Resizable tabbed palette for blocks, motifs, and triangles
9. Resizable tabbed palette for prints and solids

Dear Jane Look-alikes - 4 fabrics per block, triangle and kite

10. Search by block notecard text
11. Expanded notes field in block and quilt notecards
12. Project Wizard for previewing existing projects, creating new projects from a template, and guiding users through the steps to make a quilt
13. Layout library includes over one hundred ready-made quilt layouts
14. Copy of the Dear Jane quilt in metric sizes in the Layout Library, so you don't have to convert inches to centimeters
15. Over 30 coordinating fabric palettes in the Palette library for selecting multiple fabrics at one time
16. Improved Fabrics by Color section to fabric library in 38 colors
17. Dear Jane Look-alike fabrics for creating an authentic Dear Jane quilt (fabric notecards include manufacturer and fabric line information)
18. Import scanned fabrics in high color
19. Save scanned or other virtual fabrics in user fabric libraries
20. Tape measure tool
21. Eyedropper tool for identifying solid or fabric
22. One-step spraycan tool
23. 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
24. 23 border styles, including 3 new styles not found in EQ5
25. 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.
26. Drop Blocks Fitted border - same as Blocks Fitted Inside border, but in a "drop" or staggered block style
27. Triangles and Kites border for creating the Dear Jane border
28. Keep current border setup when starting new quilt
29. Clone borders streamlines design setup time
30. Lock border sliders for easy resizing
31. Ability to delete colors from sketchbook
32. Improved block organization in sketchbook
33. Page setup and fonts adjustment buttons on all print dialogs
34. Print blocks without the patch outline
35. Print quilts without block and patch outlines
36. Print the overall size of the quilt under the header
37. More fabric width choices in yardage estimates
38. Ability to turn off the key block when printing templates
39. Interactive print preview for moving and deleting templates
40. Trimmed seam allowance at sharp corners of templates as you would do during construction
41. Interactive print preview for moving and deleting sections of foundation patterns
42. Rotary cutting charts
43. HTML style help
44. Rotate fabric
45. HTML side of the program for learning
46. Learn about Jane Stickle & her family's lives
47. Learn about the Bennington Museum that houses her quilt
48. 3 Block lists - referenced by block name, difficulty level, and A1 through M13 names
49. Clickable quilt that leads to block, triangle, and kite tips within the program
50. Block tips have references to Dear Jane book pages, BlockBase reference numbers, and blocks similar in construction that you may want to complete next
51. Close up view of Jane's 1863 quilt
52. 9 video interviews with Brenda Papadakis
53. Read Dear Jane articles from various magazines
54. Learn about the Dear Jane book by Brenda
55. HTML style "My Block Chart" for crossing off blocks as you go or filling in with scans of you own blocks
56. Printable journal pages in 3 styles for creating a history of your quilt
57. 9 different certificates of completion in 3 styles signed by Brenda Papadakis
58. Project ideas for Block Swaps (signature swaps, christmas swaps, spring fling swap, etc.)
59. Project ideas for Round Robins (vertical Janes, rows of sharing, and the infamous Beatles exchange)
60. More fun project ideas (table toppers, stationery, quilt labels, Dear Jane 'Toid Tins, and other quilt or sewing ideas)
61. Links to the Dear Jane website, Dear Jane mail list, and other internet resources
62. Sewing Methods for planning, sewing and finishing your quilt (about freezer paper, hand-piecing, appliqué, reverse appliqué, batting, quilting, and even inking signatures)
63. Tips and supplies list for making your own Dear Jane
64. 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

Jane's blocks ( + sashing)	Blocks from the Dear Jane software