Originally Posted by
Peckish
You will get many, many opinions about this. I personally find EQ easy to learn and use, however there are people who struggle with it. My favorite way of using it is to audition my ideas to see if they look ridiculous or awesome before investing all my time and fabric.
You might check into buying it used from someone. I bought EQ7 used for my mom from someone who didn't use it as much as she thought she would. There were no problems at all transferring the ownership and activations.
This is SO true. You may not need the newest and the latest version. There are many of us still running EQ5. You may want to wait for a sale. I know around the Thanksgiving holiday that JAF had it on sale half off and I have read posts on this site that EB has it on sale-have to put it into the cart to see the price. I have own a version of EQ every since 1995 and once you have drawn your block, it becomes so simple to print rotary instructions or paper piecing instructions.