The same patterns that sold in 1928 for 15 cents each are yours in BlockBase for less than 2 cents apiece! CD-ROM Version of Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns. No other pattern collection comes close!
BlockBase has virtually every pieced block published from 1836-1970 - over 4000 patterns, ready to print as patterns. The Electric Quilt Company has added hundreds of blocks to BlockBase to make sure it contains all pieced blocks from historic collections.
It's easy!
Find a block - click on it - choose Print - type the pattern size you want.
Print:
any size
as templates
as numbered foundation blocks
as rotary cutting instructions
as whole block designs in color, grayscale or outlines.
Export as bitmaps or enhanced metafiles -- great for Web graphics or other projects. BlockBase even identifies which blocks are perfect for cutting with Marti Michell's Perfect Plastic Templates!
Special search categories include blocks perfect for:
Reproduction Quilts
Miniature Quilts
Color Studies
Optical Quilts
Holidays
Search for:
State blocks
Anniversary or wedding blocks
Occupations -- find symbolic blocks perfect for your favorite lawyer, doctor, teacher or 30 other occupations.
All star, leaf, tree, flower, airplane, animal, butterfly blocks - or dozens of other searchable categories.
It's the ultimate quilting block resource!
System requirements:
Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP
Runs on non-networked Windows NT
CD-ROM
16 MB RAM suggested
11 MB Hard Disk space
Windows 95 requires Internet Explorer 5.0 or later
No other software required
Runs on Macs using Windows conversion software such as Virtual PC. "You can run any quilt PC program using Virtual PC if you are using a newer Macintosh, such as an iMac, or Macintosh with a 603 180 MHz processor or better." -Gloria Hansen, co-author of the Free Stuff on the Internet series.