clsurz

Yes it does take time for one to design and create there own one of a kind project. Although EQ7 has alot of stuff in it is mostly along the traditional and contemporary side and I am a MOD-Improv Quilter who likes to create her own designs. I lead more towards mixed fiber art using fabric as my canvas, threads, and other materials as my paint for that canvas.

I guess one could say I am a free form creator rather than using someone elses patterns entirely to create things.

The EQ7 libraries in by themselves are great for those that want a pattern to use to create with but if we really play with that software program it does so much more using it and other tools such as the sniping program and other graphics programs to complement each other.

It's one thing for me to draw on paper but it's alot easier to be able to scan it into a program and send it to EQ by importing it there and use the drawing tools in EQ to finish up what I started or for that matter start drawing what I want using the drawing tool, coloring it, saving it and using it along with some of the traditional or contemporary blocks in EQ7 to create one of a kind quilt.

EQ7 just like all the other versions I'm sure is limited in fabrics there (most of which we cannot buy) and color schemes, as well as fonts for applique but we can imported it all into EQ7 for instance the fabrics we are actually going to use in a project to be able to place it to see what it will look like. Doing so for me allows me to use EQ7 as a design wall before cutting into that fabric to see if placement of those fabric designs and colors will work without wasting cutting my fabric by even doing one sample block. That to me is a waste of good fabric if it isn't exactly what I think it should be. Seeing it first in EQ7 allows me to manipulate the fabric design and colors without wasting my fabric if it doesn't look good