I use EQ8 and think that it's really made the program much easier to use with many more options visible on the (for example) block worktable - It's really easy to draw your own new york beauty or other blocks that have triangles on an arc. I keep EQStitch and use it for embroidery designs. The Facebook group for Electric Quilt users has very knowledgeable and helpful people on it who always answer questions and their support team at EQ is wonderful. One thing I would recommend is that after you save a project, also go to File-Export Image and save an image of the quilt with almost the same name (ie. if the project is Christmas18, then one image could be Christmas18_runner, another could be Christmas18_treequilt1, etc...) The reason I know is that when I'm looking for an old quilt from EQ5, I have to almost open every project in order to search for the quilt!!