Haven't even taken it out of the box. :-(

EQ is Electric Quilt and 7 is the latest version. It is fantastic. Go to their website to see all that it can do.

www.electricquilt.com

Susan

EQ7 is the newest version of Electric Quilt, a program that will help you design your own blocks, quilts, etc.

I have mine and play with it a lot. I upgraded from EQ6 an didn't have any problems adjusting. And I like the new features.

I use the digital features more then the designing ones. I can import any picture of a whole quilt or block, trace it, covert it to rotary cutting pieces, template, or foundation piecing, any size I want. it's worth learning the advanced features. There are many blogs that have detailed tutorials on shortcuts and how tos.

I have had computer problems, so an holding off installing. new hard drive w/ 64 bit installed. I had EQ6 for a couple of months and was going to finish going through the simplified book that I have. Now EQ 6 has been reloaded. Try to see if I can get anything off the old hard drive that crashed. I really need to start backing up as I lost alot of documents I need.

Bellaboo, could you give more info about the EQ blogs and help available online? I have EQ 7, and have read over the book but haven't actually started using it. My quilt friends in the area aren't in to computer quilt programs and I could use a little help now and then. I believe it will be very helpful!

Here are a few of the ones I like:


http://handcraftingwithlove.blogspot...rning-eq7.html
http://www.kathykwylie.com/blog/2010/06/eq7-is-here/
http://www.doyoueq.com/blog/index.php
http://www.patchworktimes.com/2010/0...rics-into-eq7/
http://virtualquilter.wordpress.com/ EQ6


lots of free tips on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/EQ-the-Mouse/78456056949
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Electr...?ref=ts&v=wall

And sign up for the EQ newsletter. It is worth reading.
http://www.electricquilt.com/Users/News/subscribe.asp

bellaboo, thank you for the links, i went directly to EQ and signed up for their newletter. :P

I've just started using my EQ7 and am still learning the do it yourself design features. Using the blocks and fabrics already in the libraries is pretty straightforward. Don't yet have a scanner, but that will enable me to use the main reason I bought it, scanning in my own fabrics, since lots of my stash is vintage stuff.