Kwiltr

I struggled with EQ7. I printed off the onboard tutorials and some off of the EQ site and found it just put me to sleep and I just wasn't getting anywhere close to designing a quilt beyond being prompted within the lessons. I upgraded anyway to EQ8 when it was discounted and subsequently caught an opportunity to pick up the "EQ8 Lessons for Beginners" on sale from an online vendor. I started working through it last week and about 2/3 of the way thru. I have successfully scanned my own fabric in and scaled it, used it in a custom layout quilt I'm currently attempting to design, designed my own simple blocks with arcs and used them in my quilt design. I am by no means proficient and I still need to go back and forth to that book to remind myself where to find things, but I am so far ahead of where I had gotten in EQ7, which was essentially nowhere! I personally find EQ8 easier to use and this book is very well written IMHO. Great visuals, enough information to get you going, but not too much at once to be overwhelming and the layout is set up so it's a great reference tool for sourcing the basics. For me, it was money well spent!

Apart from the book...I had a question come to mind while I was scanning fabric, as my fabric is a large scale focal fabric I wanted to treat as a panel. I clicked on the help and opted for the online support community I believe and asked my question. And eureka! There were several answers to that question right there that solved my question. I am now optimistic that I will be able to finish designing my next quilt, and with my own fabrics, to scale and get calculated fabric requirements. Fingers crossed!