I use it mainly for setting my fabrics/colors into a quilt pattern or if I see a photo of a quilt that I like I'll see if I can recreate it in EQ7 for the cutting info. Have yet to figure out how to create a new quilt pattern from it. But I like to be able to print out a pic of the quilt I'm working on and keep it with the quilting patterns I layout using my ProQ Designer program. I keep these together in a folder to go back to down the road if someone asks how I did it.