Announcing Quiltivate.com Quilt Builder
I'm pleased to announce that one of my long-term side projects has launched a new service today.
Quiltivate.com is a community for quilters. You can browse hundreds of quilt block patterns and see what other quilters have built.
Today, Quiltivate launches a new service called the Quilt Builder.
What do I know about quilting? A lot more than I used to. My wife Kacie is the real expert though. I've been working with her over the past year or so to build a service for quilters to make their life easier. When it comes to planning a quilt, graph paper and colored pencils still rule the day. And if you are unlucky enough to spend money on the software available to 'help' you plan a quilt, you'll be ready to gouge your eyes out with those colored pencils after you try to figure out the software. The leading software available for quilters today costs well over $100 and you have to take a class to learn how to use it. And it requires Windows.
So we decided to create something simple and easy for quilters. Give it a try. I'm willing to bet if you are reading this, like me, you don't know much about quilting. But I'm willing to be you can figure out the Quilt Builder.
Quiltivate is built on Rails, of course. The Quilt Builder is a Flex application, talking to Rails behind the scenes. I had quite a bit of help building the Flex app from Daniel Wanja over at OnRails.org.
I've invested a lot of time, energy, and money in this project, and I'm really excited to see it launch. Kacie and I have built this service by continually reminding ourselves that good design matters and that 'less is more' - we are definitely trying to under-do the competition. We think the Quilt Builder does one thing extremely well. If you know any quilters out there, be sure to let them know about Quiltivate.com!

