EQ5 Reviews - ElectricQuilt.com

"Even though it won’t actually make your quilts for you, this new upgrade of EQ marks a watershed [turning point] for the program and for computer quilt design. Easy to use but enormously powerful, it shows its origins in the ideas and suggestions of hundreds of loyal users, implemented by the talented team at Electric Quilt. Quite simply, Electric Quilt 5 is the most powerful and user-friendly quilt design program ever created."
- Planet Patchwork
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"I have many embroidery digitizing programs and other graphic programs. EQ5 is the first time I have ever purchased a program that I felt was so completely supported. You have made it possible to actually learn the program through your books. No other program I have is so complete in providing instruction for the whole program. I am thoroughly enjoying using it. It is one program I feel I am learning in the right way - and not by trial and error. Thank you for making it so much fun."
- Marcy Workman

"I think EQ5 is fantastic! I've been singing its praises to everyone I meet - even non-quilters. The manuals are very thorough and user friendly, and the software's capabilities are nothing short of fabulous. Hardly an evening passes I don't "play" even if just for a short time... My design creativity seems boundless, but to date the greatest challenge is, how does one leave EQ5 long enough to sew!"
- Elaine Saigh, New Milford, New Jersey

"I have been working with EQ5 for about one month and I just love it. I was not a computer lover until we installed EQ5. Now I am using the computer for all of my design work. Thank you!"
- Linda Consolini

"Let me say how much I'm enjoying learning EQ5. Whoever wrote the instruction books need to be congratulated as they are the most comprehensive & easy to understand instructions that I've ever had for anything. Some other companies need to take a leaf out of your book when writing their instruction books."
- Terry Dixon

"I find your product is just magic - it takes all the hard work out of designing, cutting, working out yardage, etc. It is just lovely to see potential results prior to purchasing fabric and just know it will work out so well. Please keep up the good work."
- Jenny Millett, Australia

"I love having EQ in my life, it is an excellent tool which I make use of frequently as I quilt. It is mind boggling how much is available in the program, I always feel like I'm at the tip of the iceberg! The ongoing friendly support and cheer from you and your staff is the icing on the cake."
- Chris Fowler

"Your product is the best thing since sliced bread! I learn something new every time I have time to sit down and explore. Keep the updates and products coming! A VERY satisfied customer....."
- Karen Gonzales

"I can't imagine being without my EQ5 for even a day."
- Sherry Johnson

"I've been sitting here since 5:30am this morning playing in EQ5. Not having problems just playing with one quilt. It's amazing how changing the setting of a block and the colors of the quilt will make it look so completely different! I made 40 versions of the log cabin quilt this morning. I'm absolutely loving EQ5! And of course I want to make all 40 versions but we know better than that! LOL."
- Maria Avery Deville, LA USA

"I was gifted with EQ5 last Fall, and have enjoyed the incredible ease of drawing, coloring, setting, sashing and bordering quilt ideas. It is nice to do my experimenting on the computer and to change things with the click of a button, before mis-cutting any fabric or sewing the first block! The quilting motif overlay has been a help already too."
- Cheryl Pinkerton, Leonardtown, Maryland

"EQ5 is the best thing to happen to quilters like me that love their PC as much as their quilt frame! I am having a ball of fun in both worlds now!"
- Theresa Pruitt

"I can't shout loud enough to the world what an incredible software EQ5 is. The quality and accuracy of the templates it yields is phenomenal. The odd measurements templates for the border block of a quilt I designed in July 2005, something like 7.00 x 7.5833, were printed so perfectly, it yielded a perfectly well pieced quilt. That quilt got me 2nd place award in the Amateur Pieced category at the 2006 Indiana Heritage Quilt Show. I have two quilts that were finalists in two different years of the Museum of the American Society's New Quilts from an Old Favorite contest, one of them still on a traveling exhibit, quilts that I designed with the help of EQ; one had 5.75 inch blocks and 2.875 sashing blocks, the other had half 60 degrees diamonds. Again, perfect templates. I do EQ!"
- Marie Karickhoff

"I've designed several quilts using EQ5. The numbers are endless as to how many you can make. There have been many times that I lost track of time and would find myself up till the wee hours of the morning designing. I'm thankful that I don't work outside the home so I can do as I please. I strongly recommend this to all quilters that I talk to, along with Block Base."
- Aria Rogers, Roanoke, Indiana, USA

"I just wanted to say WOW! My mom and I have been quilting together for a few years now and every year for our family reunion we have made a signature quilt. Then we present it to someone in the family who has proven for one reason or another to deserve it. Every year it has been the same old thing... we buy a graph paper tablet and colored pencils and this is how we designed our quilts! Hours and hours of coloring and block designing, just to decide that we don't like the end results and then we start over. I bought EQ5 last week and after just two projects in EQ5 Simplified, my Mom and I sat down copied our fabrics in and designed our quilt in just one day!! Thank you for making this program so easy to use... even my mom can use it! We will send a picture in when we are done. I can't wait to sit down and plan our next quilt!!"
- Crystal Dano, Pulaski, New York

"Three weeks on and I am having a terrific time with EQ5!!! The accompanying books are very easy to follow, and have given me confidence to venture off into areas that particularly appeal to me! Have had no problems designing quilts, and find that the transition from computer design to fabric execution is very seamless (no pun intended).

I am truly so pleased with it that I want other quilters to see its capabilities. The fact that I am a beginner able to get up to speed so easily should inspire others."
- Annie M.

"I received my copy of EQ5 today. I've been playing all evening and am soooo impressed. I've only made it through 1-1/2 lessons in the "getting started" because I keep getting distracted by all the neat enhancements I keep running across as I am going through the lessons. Using the new layouts allows you to design phenomenal quilts - very quickly. It almost feels like cheating it goes so well.

The help videos are also a nice overview for some of the basics. For those new to EQ, I would definitely recommend playing them. The manuals are great. Half the time when I had a question, it was answered in the next paragraph. Other items were easy to look up in the design cookbook.

Hats off to EQ the mouse (and the whole crew) for a great upgrade. It is definitely worth every penny."
- Kari in Minneapolis

"We love Electric Quilt and do most of our pattern designing it. I just designed a quilt this morning in EQ for a program we have called strip club. We sell pre-cut bundles of coordinating fabric (50 fabrics cut 2 1/2 inches.) Our perpetual challenge is finding a way to help the customers use those strips. We give them a free pattern every month to keep them wanting more. And it works. Thank god for Electric Quilt!"
- Daniela, Cozy Quilt Shop, El Cajon, CA

"People ask what will EQ5 do. The bigger question is "What won't it do for you?" I have never attempted any design that couldn't be accomplished with EQ. This product probably has the greatest number of satisfied customers on the planet. The customer support is better than any software on the market, bar none. While you are at it, get BlockBase as well. You will have thousands of patterns then to play with. You can change them to fit your liking. I'm having a tough time coming up with wishes for EQ6. I'm sure I'll think of something before long. This company listens to is customers and improves the program accordingly. Everyone starts somewhere and even a novice can create a quilt in minutes."
- W. Darlene Smith San Antonio, Texas

"I just purchased EQ5 and have done lessons 1-3, and I have fallen in love. I didn't know designing quilts could be so much fun."
- Judy Crowley, N.Troy, Vermont

"Something that impressed me about EQ5 was how much fun it was to use the first day I installed it. Soon after installing the software I’d made electronic versions of Log Cabin quilts, a Baltimore Album and a 9-Patch/Snowball quilt, simply by following the step-by-step instructions. I learned how to print templates for these quilts in various sizes, add borders, trial different fabrics, save designs and e-mail my projects to friends. The introductory manual is simple to follow and written in clear English with detailed illustrations. Thank goodness for freezer meals, because I couldn’t wait to start the chapters about setting appliqué motifs and drawing my own blocks."
- Meg Leach, British Patchwork & Quilting magazine, March 2005

"Just love the new features that I've run across, so far, in EQ5! Layout library - wow! Love the way the Fabric library is done -- Designer fabrics by color - wow! Love the palette library. And a little thing - like EQ being able to remember the "open" and "save" directories - wow! Some other programs that I have have that feature and I sure appreciate it when it's available.

Thank you, dear folks at EQ -- you did good! You have put out another great product! Now, to go back and play."
- Pat Tribbey in South Florida

"I just bought this software and i am in love with it. I have found it to be great for the beginner quilter as well as the most experienced quilter. I have designed about 20 different quilts already. I have to say that this is the best teaching tool I have found. I have learned a lot from the program. I would recommend this software to anyone just starting out in the quilting field, because the cutting patterns are easier to follow than most I have seen.

Thank you for this wonderful program. My daughter that is 8 loves all the fabrics in the software, now she wants to go find all of them in the stores. And she is starting to design her own quilt.
- Audrey Godere

"I am blown away with EQ5. My dear husband is so impressed with this company and never ever hesitates when I say EQ upgraded again... before I even say anything he says, well send it in right away and of course I DO. *grin*

Before I do any quilt project even if I see a quilt I like in a magazine I ALWAYS do my mock up on EQ in the colors that I plan for my quilt. I've impressed my father-in-law by showing him the baby quilt I promised to make for his grand niece on my computer in EQ even before cutting the fabrics."
- Barbara in SE WI

"I love EQ5 … the thrill of seeing my quilt done in EQ in fabrics I scanned in myself….What a joy to see how it would look before I even started cutting fabric! As far as I'm concerned, this program has really paid for itself."
- Sharon Sanders, Hasaki House Quilts, Cypress, Texas

"WOW! Just got lesson two done and am I impressed. My customers will love this new program and I hope to sell lots for you. The new features on this program are just GREAT, wonder if quilters who own this program will have time to quilt it is so much fun. Great Job Folks."
- Glenise (Cotton Pickins Quilt Products, Rainbow Lake, AB)

"I've had my program less than a week and I am sooooo in love with it I can hardly pull myself away! I had to let you know, it's fired up my creativity to a degree I haven't experienced in years!"
- Diane Horn, Wolcott, Connecticut

"I live in a country with no quilting tradition (Ecuador) and recently started my own quilting business. I have to purchase almost all my materials in the U.S. and have them shipped down, but I must say that of everything I use EQ is definitely the most valuable tool. Since there are practically no quilting books or patterns published in Spanish, I am producing my own for my students... so EQ is running on my computer many hours in the day... and night! I used this program (together with Photoshop and Publisher) to illustrate a Spanish day planner that includes a BOM project for 2003. I don't know how I would have done it without EQ. Once again, congratulations on a wonderful, wonderful program!"
- Angie Padilla, Bits 'n Pieces, http://ajpadilla.com/Colcha/colcha_index.htm

"I loved the lock borders feature that allows you to change the width of all four sides at once instead of having to move the sliders for all 4 sides. Whoever thought that up--Thank YOU! Great collection of palettes and fabrics. The other tool that is fantastic is the tape measure tool. That will come in very handy. Thanks a lot EQ for another great upgrade."
- Sheila Jackson in Illinois

"There just are not enough superlatives to describe EQ5!! Knowing that I would spend hours playing, I loaded EQ5 on the laptop first. My poor dear husband got really frustrated as I kept repeating 'wow', 'OMG', 'would you look at that' and 'isn't that neat'!!! I called my best friend and made her come over to play. She was totally amazed at what can be done in EQ5 and I think you may have another sale. Seriously, what a wonderful product. I didn't know you could improve EQ4 that much. It's like you picked my brain and created all these wonderful choices. Wish I had had EQ5 2 months ago when I was doing a round robin... And the fish!! Oh my, I was planning on making a fish quilt for youngest daughters and wondering how to get a nice variety......and there they are. Not to mention all the new and improved appliqué, my favorite BTW. I know that you will be receiving lots of comments, but I personally wanted to thank you for all the hard work you have done and tell you how thrilled I am."
- Kathee Secor, Orion, IL

"Electric Quilt Company created a new version of their already popular quilt design software that is the perfect blend of improvements to existing features and great new features. And they manage to do all this while keeping the look and feel of the software that you have already come to know and love.

If you are still undecided about making the step to getting quilt design software, I can offer you another reason to take the plunge. Thanks to quilt design software, I almost never make quilts that make me say, "What was I thinking when I picked the design and fabric for this quilt?" I get all those mistakes out of the way in the computer now. It's much faster and lots cheaper to make mistakes on your virtual quilts than on real ones."
- Sharon Darling's Quilter's Review
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"I would also like to let you know how much fun I am having with the new EQ5. I love the symmetry tool! It sure beats using paper and colored pencils. EQ5 has to be the very best quilt program on the market. Thanks again."
- Verna Ulrich

"This program is awesome!!! It is so easy to design a quilt that it feels like cheating, then I go on to the next one that has been in my head.

A very big and sincere Thank You to everyone who worked on it. It is exceptional and I have only been through the first five lessons.

Being able to delete and move templates is super. The swap tool is wonderful. I could go on and on and I have just started with it!! You all deserve a big hand.

Was so anxious to send my registration card that I didn't remember a postcard doesn't need 34 cents, so it had extra postage!! Also very impressed with the speed of delivery. Thanks again."
- Lee Ebersole

"I installed the EQ5 yesterday and have already designed 4 quilts. It seems so much easier to work on this version. The extensive resources that are included make working on designs delightful with professional results for a novice. Thanks for a great product."
- Marge Johnson Woodbury, New Jersey

"My DH [dearest husband] has been cooking every night since EQ5 arrived... and I keep playing at my computer! Wonderful program! I'm starting a DearJane club and have been designing my blocks and some quilts using the software! Thanks for a wonderful program."
- Mary Hickory in St.Louis

"Thank you so much for a delightful program. When I have my own business (quilt pattern designs hopefully real soon) I will strive to measure up to your delightful level of instruction, customer service and product development. You have raised the bar for those to come behind you."
- Denise Werner

"I LOVE the new EQ5. Hard to believe it's possible but this product just keeps getting better and better."
- Suzanne Sanger

"I just wanted you to know that I received and loaded my version of EQ5 and it looks WONDERFUL. I use your program a lot when I am designing... even when I’m not necessarily going to be making the quilt right away, but have an idea that I have to get down on ‘paper’. This new version appears to be even better than the last and very nice graphics. My compliments. Thank you!!"
- Elaine Luscombe

"My husband can't get me off the computer (except to go to a quilt show today). It is just AWESOME! I started out with EQ 2 and upgraded whenever possible. I frankly couldn't imaging how much you could improve an already excellent product, but you have simply outdone yourselves! Keep up the great work!"
- Sherry Folks, Garwin, IA.

"I'm only on page 11 and smiling at how you write the books. EQ5 looks great."
- Ellie

"I keep forgetting how to do things, so I just opened up the EQ5 help file for an answer, and all I can say is WOW! What a fabulously done help file. I've never seen a more attractive, more well-designed help file complete with graphics, ever! Great Job!"
- Pat Schaniel

"I just loaded it and started to play. It is WONDERFUL!!!!. I love it. You were really in touch with what users needed."
- Sherry Little

"I loved EQ-4, just received EQ-5, and am loving getting acquainted with it. Congratulations on designing the best quilt design software in the world!"
- Gwen Baggett, quilt artist; Snugglers Cove Quilting; Clinton, Indiana

"EQ5 is a fabulous new program... thank you EQ for your dedication to excellence and your wonderful support network! The new Baltimore blocks are great and the fabric library alone is worth the upgrade price!"
- Dottie in Atlanta

"Well I'm on Lesson 5 in the Getting Started book. This is really a lot of fun. I love the way the instructions are written. With clarity and humor - hard to beat!"
- Guila Greer in SoCal

"I can't tell you how much I love EQ5! And I thought EQ4 was great! There are so many little (and not so little) improvements that make Electric Quilt 5 my most valuable quilting tool. It allows me to perfect my quilt's layout and color scheme before I ever cut into fabric. The books are great too, with lots of problem solvers and great ideas. I love the fact that I can design a quilt quickly and easily and then get on to the best part: QUILTING!!!"
- Bridget Cheatham, TX

"Being a newbie to the EQ world, I was tentative at first that this would be some difficult to use software. I was proven wrong in the very first lesson! This is amazingly powerful software, full of choices. EQ5 unleashes the wildest imaginations of the quilter and the creativity of a beginner. Thank you for providing such a great tool in such an easy-to-use format!"
- Tamra Aichele West Richland, WA

"Everything I have used that is connected to the Electric Quilt Company has been so satisfactory and your patient, good-natured answer for every question, no matter how many times it is repeated (LOL), is so much appreciated!"
- Dottie Richey Dunwoody, Georgia

"Give a quilter a pattern and they will piece all day, Give a quilter EQ and they will figure out how to draw the pattern and can piece forever!"
- Garnet Underwood

"I am really enjoying EQ5!!!!!!!!! I am a quilt teacher and have used EQ4 patterns in my paper-piecing class. I have recently started publishing my own patterns... ones I have designed for teaching classes."
- Carole Grant

"Okay, I'm one of those kind of people who liked to figure things out the hard way......all the calculations and hand drawings for my quilts... buying the books and patterns... redoing the quilt design as I go along because it wasn't what I thought it would look like... NOT ANYMORE!!!

I can't believe this program is not being used around my town or by more people... yes the quilt shop has one installed for people to test but the price scared me... so I walked by. My friends are seeing the end results. The quilts I designed with the fabrics I want, you can see your quilt before you make it.

My twelve year old daughter is using it... I came home one day and there she was sitting at my PC designing her first quilt. After a three inch binder of my collections and started looking for more space plus looking for time saver ideas... I sat down at the shop and played.

My king size quilt... was created in minutes... my clicking and poking around the software brought new life to my quilting design. I kept saying WOW! This is COOL! and I begged my hubby until one day I bought it on my own. The videos make it easy to learn, the help from EQ support was quick response with step by step instructions to my question, and one day I called them to ask a question - wouldn't you know the voice in the video was the voice on the phone.....very helpful... very nice. She even listened to my idea for panning around my quilt.

I can't tell you enough about what this software does but I can tell you that the possibilities are endless especially with BlockBase automatically linked to the EQ program the selection is so far - a bad thing for me because now I want to... make this quilt,... do that block ...and of course, use that fabric. Oh, if only this PC can cut my fabric for me now that would be really COOL !

Thank you EQ software designers for your hard work to please the "hard to please" quilters. My time on your software makes more time for me to sew.

PS, I just bought Stash 2003 - can't wait until it's installed."
- ReGina C. Munson, Jenison, MI

"Hi, I just wanted to email and tell you how very satisfied I am with my purchase. I received it Monday afternoon and did the first 5 lessons that evening. The next morning I started at lesson one again and quickly worked through all of them again and did the final lesson. Tuesday afternoon I started playing with the program and by Friday had designed two quilt tops and purchased the fabrics for one of them! I even drew two appliqué patterns that I wanted that weren't included. Today (Saturday) I am going to start cutting the fabrics and sewing the blocks.

This is an awesome program and I haven't had any problems using the program and the only books I have are the ones included with the program. It takes a little playing with it to remember how to do all the great things it does, but it is very worth the time.

Just thought you would enjoy hearing from a very satisfied new customer. I am telling everyone I know that they really need to buy this program!"
- Kim T., South Louisiana

"I am a new owner of EQ5. I have been absolutely astounded by the versatility and user-friendliness of EQ5. This is the first software I have ever bought that did exactly what it said it did "on the cover" so to speak. I own machine knitting & machine embroidery software and have had to almost get a university degree to understand how to use them but EQ5 is so easy to use."
- Jane, Overlooking the sea in Paignton, Devon, England

"Hello, I just wanted to write and thank you for the most wonderful software on the market today. I have never been so impressed by a product as I am with EQ5 that I've been inspired to write the company. It's a dream come true for the quilt fanatic and absolutely indispensable for anyone attempting to launch a career in quilt design, as I am.

I've owned EQ5 since mid-April of this year and it seems every time I use it, I discover something new. It's easy enough to use that someone (like me) who abhors reading instructions can jump right in and start playing, but the manuals are excellent and any time I've been stumped, have been able to find an answer to my question just by browsing through the books.

EQ5 has sparked my creativity in ways I never imagined and has become an important part of my sewing room. This morning, I decided to design the perfect border for my latest project, I would print off the blocks that made up my border, the flowers & leaves I intended to appliqué on them (in color) and tape & glue everything together to get a better idea of how the actual quilt will look with my border. It worked magnificently. It's the ability to do the little things like that that make your product truly wonderful. Thanks so much for making my love of designing quilts truly enjoyable and productive. Well done!"
- Jodi Crowell, Oromocto, New Brunswick, Canada

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