

So now I’m a confident beginner with quilt pattern design using Inkscape and EQ7!įirst, I found Youtube tutorials that taught me how to use the program. After practicing, I’ve used it for a published pattern and it looked pretty good, if I do say so myself. Well, it’s been marvelous!! And, it’s free. UGH…expensive program and a steep learning curve.īut then….several wonderful quilt designers mentioned Inkscape as a great alternative for drawing diagrams and step out instructions.

I design a lot of my quilts in EQ7 and I really like the program for the way I can plan, play, make changes before cutting a single piece of fabric.īut, when I decided to start writing patterns and more detailed instructions for my workshops, I thought that Adobe Illustrator was going to be my my best option. Quilt pattern design is an activity that I wanted to ‘conquer’, especially after getting my patterns published in a magazine in 2014.
