You can definitely design things on EQ7 but as others have said - there is definitely a learning curve. It is not nearly as intuitive as most other software is...things you think you should be able to do don't work the way you expect them to and it takes work to figure things out.
BUT, having said that, I LOVE it and use it all the time. I subscribe to a lot of quilt magazines and buy lots of quilting books, and I have a lot of fun reproducing quilts that catch my eye in EQ7 and then I can play with colors, change borders...all sorts of magic!
I also enjoy comparing photos of my finished quilts to my EQ7 versions and seeing how close they came out...sometimes very close!
This one is based on "House Cats", from Quilts to Share by Janet Kime; I reproduced the block in EQ7 and then changed the colors up and I think the sashing was my own addition too but can't remember now. This one was super easy to make in EQ7.
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This one is my own design - bargellos aren't especially easy or quick on EQ7 (unless someone knows a trick?) but they CAN be done!
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