I also bought mine a few yrs ago but didn't do much with it. I also got some of the older books but was told they would work with 7. That could be true I just never followed thru. Well my LQS where I got my emb machine has a class now that does two things. In the morning we are taking the blocks from Dear Jane quilt and creating them in EQ7 and then the last half of the class we are pulling them into our emb software 5D or 6D Pro and turning them into digitizing files. With as many of blocks there are in that quilt, I should be really good at both by the time we are done. So excited on this class.