Originally Posted by clsurz
SPEAKING OF EQ7 I know several of you here have this program so how many of you actually make good use of it and design your own blocks to be used in quilt projects later on?
It is one tool among many that I use. What it does it does very well. I generally don't 'design' a quilt from scratch on it and have rarely used it to do a full quilt. I use it to audition blocks or parts of quilts or settings that I've doodled on paper. It's particularly helpful when auditioning colors. It is also very good for resizing squares and printing out a full size pattern, templates, paper piecing and/or rotary cutting directions. 7 has a new feature that's a bit addictive. You can import a photo and turn it into a one block quilt: postage stamp squares, hexes etc.