Originally Posted by
romille
I know the two are entirely different software. Dear Jane is just meant to help you design and make a specific quilt with specific blocks; while EQ7 is meant for designing whatever you want. I was just thinking that if I decided EQ7 wasn't worthwhile for me, Dear Jane would be an excellent alternative because I really intrigued by that quilt. Although I suspect it could take me years to finish the quilt since I would be making the blocks along side other projects. I don't think I have the attention span to make that thing all at once!
I bought the Dear Jane software to print out the patterns for paper piecing. I didn't use it for colors or anything else. Figured it was worth the price just to get the paper piecing patterns! Took me quite a while to get them all printed and ready to work on! There are wonderful tutorials on each block in the blog That Quilt.