Hi, has anyone use the software EQ? Did you like it? Was it easy to use?

if you will try the search feature at the top of the page you will find multiple discussions on EQ, yes most of us love it

I have EQ7. The little I have played with it - I really like it. I don't think it hard to use. There is alot more I need to learn. They have learning videos included that I watched a couple times to refresh my memory.

I have EQ6 and love it- I just need to use it more often!!
has help videos etc right on it...very easy

I have EQ7 and I love it. As far as being easy to learn, I think it depends on your experience with similar programs. I've used Photoshop Elements a lot so I think that helped me to learn EQ but others have struggled.

I agree and there is so much more for me to learn. I am constantly finding ways to tweak my layouts.

I just upgraded to EQ5 and I was happy that I can now add fabric stash off the EQ website. I has all the features I like. Not much of a change so it was easy to get designing. It is great when you need to decide on the size of a block for any size of quilt.

i have eq5 and never have felt the need to upgrade to eq7. i couldn't live without it

I have EQ6 and just love it. I am working now a quilt now that I designed using EQ6. It is so easy. I have even scanned fabric.

I had nothing to upgrade to when I started out with EQ7 last year :roll: and wonder how I lived without it, too.

I have EQ6 and I love it - I use it all the time. It is well worth the investment.

I have EQ 5, I think. Really like it. I don't use it to it's fullest potential by any stretch of the imagination but I do like it for what I use it for and find it is bascially fairly easy to use. If I were more creative I'm sure it would be a much more powerful tool. And I've not felt the need to upgrade either as a couple of others have said.

I have and use EQ5 and have never felt the need nor could I justify the expense of upgrading. That said, I use it all the time. My quilt or wallhanging is on the screen while I am sewing and designs are tweaked all the time before I actually commit fabric to a project. I never worry about importing fabrics since I just pick a typical fabric and change the colorway so it kind of looks like what I have and go for it. It's not easy to use a "custom" setting in EQ5, but I have. I'm not really a quilt designer so I don't often go there. I've gotten excited about many quilts only to lose interest once I put them in EQ. My new project is to make a small block sampler quilt to see if I will like the result. Taking the time to get it in EQ will save me much grief or spur me forward-we'll see.

I started with EQ6, graded to 7, and will upgrade to 8 when it comes out. I use it all the time and have gotten far more than my money's worth out of it.

I had EQ4, then 5, then 6 now 7 and loved them (though there are a number of quilts I have had to do on graph paper because I could not do them in EQ. I also have Block Base and love it since it gives me oodles of possibilities.

Same here. There's a quilt I've had in my head for literally years. Thought it would be the most spectacular quilt. Recently I drafted it in EQ and decided I didn't like it at all. There are also lots of designs I've drafted that I know I'll probably never make. Some because I don't like them and some because I don't have time. (See my avatar. Love the design but too many projects ahead of it on my to do list.) But it's fun to play. And I think it's given me a better sense of design and color.

Oh I so agree with the both of you. I have imported a few fabrics, but have found there are so many fabrics already in that have the color and scale I'm looking for that the exact fabric is not an issue.