I love my EQ7. I scan my fabrics in and design using my real fabrics. The 26X44 panel might not work with EQ7. I think you could draw a 26X44 block and surround it fine, but I don't know how you would get your 26X44 panel scanned in so it would appear in full color with the image on it. Perhaps someone more experienced knows something I don't know that would help. My scanner would not scan an image that big, so it has never come up. Simple math tells me that you need to fill 14 inches on each side of the panel and 18 inches on the top and bottom. That presents a problem when using square blocks because there is no block size that goes evenly into both 26 and 44. You may need to adjust your border.