If you want to digitize, then buy it. I bought it and don't have the patience for digitizing so have not used it at all. It, also, changes how you go in and out of EQ7 (my version). You will lose your EQ icon and only have EQStitch. I open a file from pj7 file folder. It opens and resembles EQ7. No where on the screen is the name of the project you are looking at. When you save the project, you have to remember what it is you are working on and type the name in after you chosen "Export Project as PJ7". Then you exit out by saying "no" to the rest of the saves. I have requested that the name of the file you are working on be maintained somewhere you can see it. I don't know if it will happen.
Guess I am showing my frustration. I would never have bought the product if I had realized how it would impact me knowing when to save to get a PJ7 file. When you install EQStitch, it changes the serial number for your EQ7 or whichever version you are working with. This is once that I spent money on something I am just not going to use.
Embird is the program I have been using for embroidery and can get a lot more done in it than I can even think about doing in EQStitch. I do have Studio, the digitizing part of it, but don't use it. I use the standard Embird, to change thread colors, split embroidery patterns, and combine embroidery designs. I have not found those functions in EQStitch. That doesn't mean they aren't there, just that I don't know where they are.
Having said all that. I enjoy the things I can do and the designs I create in EQ7 and won't get rid of it, but wish I only had it. When I get a new computer (every 2 to 3 years for me), I won't reload EQStitch.
Last edited by Barb in Louisiana; 09-16-2014 at 12:43 PM.