McMorris digitally drew each block herself to create BlockBase, a comprehensive digital library of quilt bocks. In the late 1990s, when Electric Quilt founder Penny McMorris was looking to create quilt software the obvious solution was to license the contents of Brackman’s book. In fact, Brackman and Electric Quilt have been a perfect pair from the start. The cost-benefit analysis of drawing 4,000 quilt blocks just never worked.įor quilt design software company Electric Quilt, though, this project was ideal. Over the years she’s had conversations with multiple publishers about taking on the project, but plans always fell through when they fully grasped the scope of the task. She’s also come across 161 blocks additional quilt blocks. The 1993 edition is all in black and white and its awkward page layout bugs her. Used copies sell online for upwards of $100.īrackman has been anxious to update the book. The original edition, which Alex Anderson, co-host of The Quilt Show, has described as “the most valuable, helpful, and necessary quilt reference work ever written,” was published in 1993 and has long been out of print. “It’s like a fairy godmother came to me and said, what do you want?” Barbara Brackman says about The Electric Quilt Company’s forthcoming rerelease of her book, Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns.
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