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Note: Did you hear about the latest EQ8 Update? Be sure to update your EQ8 if you plan to purchase BlockBase+ that way you can use the BlockBase+ blocks in EQ8! Read instructions carefully. (Mac users – this update also fixes macOS Big Sur issues!) Click here to see all the BB+ Top Ten posts. #8 - Search for Blocks Even though the 4,000+ blocks in BlockBase+ are sorted into lots of helpful categories and sub-categories, we thought you might want a few different ways to search for blocks… that way you can quickly find what you’re looking for! Below are the ways you can search in Blockbase+. Search by Brackman ID Every block in BlockBase+ has a Brackman ID number as its name. The Brackman ID comes from the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns book by Barbara Brackman. If you know the Brackman ID of the block you are looking for, enter the number

Note: Did you hear about the latest EQ8 Update? Be sure to update your EQ8 if you plan to purchase BlockBase+ that way you can use the BlockBase+ blocks in EQ8! Read instructions carefully. (Mac users – this update also fixes macOS Big Sur issues!) Click here to see all the BB+ Top Ten posts. #9 - Block-viewing Options One of the many things that makes BlockBase+ so fun is opening it up and immediately seeing a bunch of colorful blocks! However, sometimes you may not want to see so much color, or maybe you want to see the blocks without the seam lines… well with just one click of the block-viewing options, you can instantly change how you see the blocks! Patch Lines Turn the block seam lines on or off with one click!   Three Colorway Settings View blocks as line drawings, in grayscale or color! Four Display Settings Choose a display size

THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. Congratulations to the five winners who were chosen at random and emailed Monday, February 22: Cindy Wetzel Linda Trudeau Anne K Bolin Beth Dollar Denise Fobare Thanks to all participants for their interest in BlockBase+ and the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns book! Stay tuned to the blog and our emails for the BlockBase+ release! Contest updated – no purchase necessary!    Our attempt to provide a fun giveaway this week didn’t go the way we intended. We apologize for excluding some customers from being eligible to win. Therefore, we have opened up the contest to everyone… no purchase necessary! Just comment below for a chance to win a free BlockBase+ when it’s available! We’d love to hear your excitement for BlockBase+ or how you’ll use it with Barbara Brackman’s Encyclopedia! If you see your comment below, you are entered. One comment per person please. On Monday, February

Note: Did you hear about the latest EQ8 Update? Be sure to update your EQ8 if you plan to purchase BlockBase+ that way you can use the BlockBase+ blocks in EQ8! Read instructions carefully. (Mac users – this update also fixes macOS Big Sur issues!) Click here to see all the BB+ Top Ten posts. #10 – User-friendly Interface BlockBase+ was designed to be a very easy program to use. As soon as you open the software, you can see lots of colorful blocks. Look to the left side of the screen for the full Library and browse the block styles! You’ll find over 4,000+ pieced blocks from Barbara Brackman’s Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns organized into categories like Four Patch, Equal Nine Patch, Square in a Square, and more! Just above the library, there are three buttons for navigating through BlockBase+. The first is the library, the second is for searching for blocks, and the third is for

Did you buy your “Brackman” yet? Acquisitions Editor at Golden Peak Media, Lori Baker, gives a “peek” into Barbara Brackman’s new Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns. Play the video below to hear all about it (and BlockBase+ software too!). Place your order now! Or better yet, call your favorite quilt shop and ask if they have these products! U.S. shops, Canadian shops, and retailers overseas are selling it! Whether you had an older version of BlockBase or are brand new to it, you’re going to love the new interface, ease of use, enhanced printing options, and fun new features. In just a couple clicks, you can have printouts of rotary-cutting charts, templates, or foundation patterns for the 4,000+ blocks from the Encyclopedia IN ANY SIZE! You enter a size, and BOOM, it’s ready to print! Also, if you were wondering if there are any big new features in this new version… SPOILER ALERT…

If you purchased the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns during our pre-order period, you’ve probably gotten it by now (or it’s on the way!!). As soon as we received the books from the printer, it was all-hands-on-deck to get them packaged and shipped out! Due to the overwhelming demand, we sold out of the first printing! We placed another order right away, and those were delivered January 27. We’re packing and shipping as fast as we can so if you order now, your book will be on its way very soon! Now that things have settled down a little bit, we can take the time to actually enjoy a copy! Take a look!! The colored blocks are just so fun to look at!! Not to mention the gorgeous pictures of sewn blocks! It’s really the only Encyclopedia you’ll ever need!  So, if you’ve gotten your copy, leave a comment below

“Are you nuts?” Among lots of thank yous and compliments, that’s the most common question Barbara Brackman gets in regard to her Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns book. I suppose that’s a fair question considering all the research and organization that went into compiling over 4,000 quilt block patterns. Read our Q&A with her to hear about how it all came together, plus some insight on using BlockBase+, Barbara’s online lectures, cocktail parties, and Cary Grant. When and how did your interest in quilt blocks come about? Barbara: I’ve always loved pattern. When I was enrolled in an art history class at the University of Kansas I came across Carrie Hall’s 800+ quilt blocks that she donated to the museum there in the 1930s. I was hooked. Carrie Hall’s blocks at the Spencer Museum of Art How did you go from casually collecting a few patterns to creating a full