Free Quilt Design Software For Mac

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Free software for designing quilts based on photos and drawing pieced quilt blocks with ease. Check out the tutorials to learn how to use this software.

Free Quilting Software For Mac Os; Free Quilting Software Quilt Block; IntelliQuilter is the new standard in computerized quilting for longarm quilting. The IntelliQuilter computerized quilting machine system is an after-market add-on that fits A1, APQS, Bernina, Gammill, HandiQuilter, Kenquilt, and Nolting longarm quilting machines. This software is block design, quilt design, and pantograph design software all-in-one. The pantograph is the quilt stitching that you see on many quilts, for example, stippling or overall spirals. So you could design your entire quilt project with this software.

The free tool from the Victoria and Albert (V and A) museum can turn any piece of work (your precious photos), into a patchwork pattern that you can then use to create your “other” work of art. You simply select a photo that you want to convert into a quilt, and the tool does the rest. Get started using this free tool here: Free Patchwork.

What is Quilt Assistant?

QuiltAssistant is free design-software that can help you to turn your photos into quilts. Rather than the traditional approach of breaking up the photo into little squares ('watercolor style') it allows you to divide the photo into pieces of arbitrary size and shape.

On completing your design, you can print templates including seam allowances.

A picture is worth a thousand words:

But Wait, There's More! You can also use QuiltAssistant to quickly draft more traditional quilt blocks not based on any particular image. The software helps you by making use of the symmetry present in most blocks: for every line you draw, the software can automatically complete the symmetrical parts of the design for you:

You can also use QuiltAssistant to make your own paper piecing patterns, and even export your quilt and block designs to Electric Quilt!

What Quilt Assistant is NOT

QuiltAssistant is not designed to be a cheap alternative to commercial software like Electric Quilt or Quilt-Pro. It is not geared toward the design of complete block-based quilts, nor does it have libraries of blocks or fabrics to play with. Instead, it focuses on specific tasks like turning photos into quilts and quickly drafting quilt blocks or pacer piecing patterns.

I want to know more

To learn more about QuiltAssistant, please read the QuiltAssistant manual (PDF, you need Acrobat Reader). It will quickly bring you up to speed on the way the software can work for you. A sample printout shows you what the templates printed from QuiltAssistant can look like.

Free Quilt Design Software For Mac

Also, make sure to check out the tutorials to get step by step instructions that teach you about different aspects of the software.

Examples

Quilting design programs

Here are a couple of quilts I designed using QuiltAssistant:


Flora & Fungi
Schin op Geul
Doyenna

Download

Free Quilt Design Software For Mac

Download QuiltAssistant v2.25 (2.7 Mb, release date 29 April 2013) for Windows.

Be aware that you need the Microsoft .NET Framework to run this program. This framework may already be installed on your computer (Windows Vista, 7 and higher come preinstalled with it). If not, you will be warned when you install QuiltAssistant.

Tutorials, Questions, Feedback

Look at the Quilt Assistant tutorials to get you started. If you have any questions or comments, want to find answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ), or you want to share your experiences, please visit the Quilt Assistant forum. Alternatively, you can send me a private message.

What's New?

Since v2.24 (4 December 2012):

  • Bugfixes based on user reports (mostly related to paper piecing and naming)
Computer

Since v2.23 (6 September 2011):

  • Bugfix scrolling / zooming for maximized windows in Windows 7 and up
  • Added support for Windows 8

Since v2.22 (24 December 2009):

  • Bugfix numbering in printout
  • Bugfix in the naming for paper piece logic

For a list of all improvements since the beginning, see the complete revision history.

Quilting Design Programs

Full-featured design software for creating paper or digitized quilting motifs and patterns

Pro-Stitcher Designer™ gives you the ability to quickly design, edit, customize, import or export any quilting motif.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Free Quilt Design Software For Mac Air

  • Full-featured, vector-based editing and digitizing software to create your own digital quilting files
  • Easy-to-learn user interface and features
  • Free lifetime program updates
  • Full user support with manual, tutorials, and videos
  • Design and stitch motif library
  • Print design catalog
  • Compatible with all major longarm quilting file formats
  • Import and export vector formats
  • Batch save in all quilting formats
  • Draw original designs with Pencil, Line, Curve, 3-Point Arc, and Bezier tools
  • Customize, edit, and merge existing designs
  • Use design points and anchors for fine-tuned customization
  • Create quilt designs from artwork using Trace tools
  • Audition quilt patterns and preview with Slow Redraw
  • Use Autoshapes to quickly draw original quilt patterns
  • Create repeated motifs with the Carousel and Reflect features
  • Convert True Type fonts to artwork
  • Add seam allowances to appliqué and English paper piecing artwork
  • Customizable grids, including diagonal grid
  • Automatic fills including stipple and crosshatch
  • Print pantographs and tear-away stencils for use with home sewing machines and non-robotic longarm quilting machines
  • Quickly preview how designs repeat while drawing
  • Repeat designs to create edge-to-edge layouts

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

WINDOWS: Windows 8 – 8.1; 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2; 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit) RAM; 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) hard disk space; Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM drive; USB Port; 800 x 600 Display; Mouse; Internet Access.

FILE FORMATS:

OPENS: HQF, HQV, HQA, HQW, QLI, CQP, SSD, TXT, IQP, QCC, PAT, BQM, ANS, common embroidery files

IMPORTS: SVG, AI, EPS, EMF, WMF, DXF, PLT, FCM, TT (true type fonts), BMP, JPG, PNG, TIF, GIF

Quilt Planning Software

SAVE AS AND EXPORTS: SVG, PNG, JPG, HQF, HQV, HQA, HQW, QLI, CQP, SSD, TXT, IQP, PAT, BQM, SLT