If you never want to buy a quilt pattern again it's worth it. You can draft any pattern with EQ7 but it won't give you steps how to make it. Most all the quilt designers use EQ7. I started with EQ when it was on floppy discs and ran only on MSDOS. I don't scan my fabric into it, I find the thumbnail pictures of it at online quilt shops and import the picture of the fabric. Most shops have EQ files of exclusive fabric lines. Connecting Threads has EQ files of all their fabrics. The EQ website has thousands of fabrics in EQ file downloads for free too. Or you can buy a cd of all the fabrics from past years, it's called Stash.