Design N Quilt Software Designing and planning made easy: From libraries of blocks, fabrics, and even Alex Anderson quilts, to quick and simple artwork editing tools that eliminates the tedium of repetition! Libraries at your fingertips! Block Library Built-in block library stacked with pre-made blocks! Browse by category to quickly find what you need! Create, save and expand your block library with endless easy to create possibilities! Fabric Library See your finished quilt with actual fabric BEFORE you sew! Add YOUR fabrics to your library with a photo or other image file! Audition different fabrics with your design to see what works best! Create jpgs to show friends and get additional opinions! Quilt Library You just quickly created your own digital quilt! Save it in your very own personal quilt library! DNQ keeps your projects organized and easy to find! Makes Designing a Snap! Easy Block Creator With DNQ, anyone can find the fun in creating new quilt blocks! Our Easy Block Creator tool is so easy and intuitive that blocks can be made in moments! Start with an empty grid of squares or triangles and then select and unite the pieces of your quilt. Design any block you have ever seen or can imagine! Advanced Block Creator No boundaries or restrictions! Create any quilt block you can sew! Create with curved lines! Or non-traditional quilt shapes! Let your inner artist loose with this easy-to-use tool! New Quilt Layouts Made Easy Audition colors or fabrics in the quilt! Add sashing with vertical or horizontal strips! Or choose to have corner blocks in the sashing! Add one or more borders with horizontal or vertical strips! Add a block-based border to put your most interesting block designs on parade! Custom Shapes for Perfect Appliques on Quilts! Attach from our galleries of shapes to a block or quilt, and the pieces will be included with the printed page! You can turn these shapes into automatic embroidery with one click. Alphabets! Basic Shapes! Print & Piece a Quilt Actual Size Templates with Outlines! Print out Templates for appliqué at actual sizes, with options for outlines, grid lines or color numbering! Fabric Summaries and Cutting Instructions! Automatically tells you how much fabric you will need to make your block or quilt, with exact instructions for rotary cutting for each piece! Foundational Paper Piecing! With a viewer window where you can see the block created one piece at a time. Create your own blocks and then let the software assign the paper piecing numbers and sections automatically. The tool also allows you to take control and assign the numbers and sections yourself! Use the print preview to access professional quality templates for foundation paper piecing! Quick Tools = Quick Quilts! Export Quilt Tool Make SVG cutting files of your quilt pieces with Export Quilt tool! Just what digital cutting machines need to start your project! Create Artwork Tool Draw endless shapes to use as applique in your quilts! If you have a photo image, like a .JPG, trace over it to create your own custom artwork! Magic Needle Tool Just click to auto trace shapes in a backdrop image! Works best with clipart, tracing the shapes of solid colors. Perfect for applique or creating your own quilt pattern for your long arm robotics! Edit & Shaping Tools Use the art edit tools such as “Weld and Trim” to make changes! Easy for creating applique that is trimmed so no layer overlap! You can make edits to your applique shapes so they are exactly what you need. Use the shape tool to access the points along the outline of the shape and then add , delete or move points to perfect your applique. Align and Distribute Organize your cuts! When making a template, these tools organize your patterns! No rules here - layout your patterns however you like, but fans of even spaces and balance will be VERY happy. Repetitive Sets Tool Repetition doesn’t mean tedium! Use to take one specific shape and quickly repeat it in rows or in columns! Mix it up by alternating every other shape, either flipped or rotated! Flip and Rotate Tools Is the orientation of your quilt blocks not quite right? Or are you just wanting to give an old quilt design a new twist? Quickly Flip or Rotate quilt blocks to change it up! Create Outline Tool You can select a shape and the software will trace one or more outlines. Take your quilting further! Supports many styles of Quilting. Design N Quilt doesn’t force you to quilt “the DNQ way” You are going to cut and sew with the techniques you choose. DNQ software just makes the designing and planning easy. So, no matter which quilting techniques define you, DNQ lets you: Buy your supplies with confidence Cut your materials with confidence, and Spend more time quilting the way you already love. You Choose the Seam Allowance. Do you use a ¼" or ½? Or something else? Design N Quilt has you covered. You set the seam allowance for your project so your printed templates have your correct yardage estimates. Long Arm Quilting with Design N Quilt Design N Quilt is the perfect companion to all forms of quilting, INCLUDING Long Arm robotics. Open, save, and edit long arm quit designs for all brands of automated long arm quilting machines. Create new designs or make edits to the ones you have! Choose from the included decorative motif patterns to make long arm quilt designs with unlimited possibilities. Embroidery Quilting - Easy and Powerful Design N Quilt can open and save plus create and edit embroidery designs. If you like to add touches of embroidery to your quilts, then you have everything you need in your new Design N Quilt software. Think of the cute quilt labels that you can add to help your family know more about your cherished quilts for years to come! Design N Quilt makes it easy to add embroidery text and personalize your quilt blocks or labels. There is also a full selection of the latest texture embroidery quilting stitches and super dynamic types of embroidery quilting like shape echo. While these tools may not be needed for your traditional quilting it still nice to know your new quilt software is embroidery capable just in case you need it. Embroidery Tools for Blocks and Borders Quilting Stitches! Design your own in the hoop embroidery blocks that feature effects like decorative quilt. Create embroidery with special quilting stitches that are perfect for making in the hoop embroidery designs that quilt as you go. Choose from different patterns or use a shape echo effect! Open and save all popular embroidery formats.! One click tool to add a basting stitch around the design! Create Embroidery Text! Easy to use with dozens of beautiful letter styles to choose from! Arrange your text in an arch! In an envelope! Have fun with it! One Click Embroidery Appliqué! Turn any shape into appliqué – give it a blanket edge for hand made look or, a satin border for a beautiful finished look! Designs! Embellishments for Quilt Blocks made on your Embroidery Machine! Embroidery Frames! Make your own custom Quilt Labels! Just a few clicks to be a Fabric Designer! So simple anyone can do it! Just open an image file of anything and then let the Design N Quilt wizard help you design the coolest pattern you have ever seen in just a few clicks!
