Jan, while I would love to get an updated and usable version of EQ again, I still use a graph paper tablet -- I can have it in my bag while I sit in the school pick up line, and sketch out ideas -- I'd forget by the time I got home and to my computer. And for a quick and easy project like this one, it probably is just as easy to do it on graph paper as it would be with all the fancy EQ features. Since my strips were precuts, I just used 2.5 strip width = 1 square. From there on out, very easy to set up.
I didn't take my first strip piecing class until about 1987, and I think the "method" was the Trudie Hughs approach. But it really goes way back farther, to Seminole piecing, which I believe goes back just about as far as the introduction of the domestic sewing machine (though without the use of the rotary cutter and self healing mat, it wasn't so widely popular).
RST