BlockBase has virtually every pieced block published from 1836-1970 - over 4300 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 to use: find a block - click on it - choose Print - type the pattern size you want.
Features:
- Over 4000 pieced block patterns
- Amazing historical as well as pattern resource for quilters and quilt historians
- Blocks categorized in 22 categories
- Design Notes for blocks include Brackman I.D. number, Block names, and dates
- Published Names include names, magazines or other sources, dates and some contact information for copyright notices
- Create and save projects of blocks to find them again quickly
- Export and save blocks as bitmaps of a size you specify
- Copy blocks as bitmaps to the Windows clipboard to paste into other Windows imaging programs
- Export and save blocks as metafiles of a size you specify
- Copy blocks as metafiles to the Windows clipboard to paste into other Windows programs that accept vector images
- Print blocks at any size as uncolored, white, grayscale, or colored blocks
- Print blocks at any size as foundation/ paper piecing patterns
- Print blocks at any size as templates
- Print blocks at any size as rotary cutting charts
- Print block commercial template information
- Printing blocks in any size makes it a powerhouse for miniature quilt makers
- Quick Quilt option shows you how a one-block quilt would look with the block you choose
- Search for blocks by Block Name
- Search for blocks by Brackman I.D. number
- Search for blocks with a certain word in their name
- Search for blocks by keyword
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