I'm so sorry about your husband.

littlehud,
Thank you. He was sick for a long time, 15+ years, and though he was only 54 he struggled a long time & was in a pain all the time so I can't wish him back to that.
Jo

I started with EQ5 and had fun with that. Then when EQ6 came out I upgraded and it is even more awesome. Easier to use. You can design your own blocks. It is awesome.

I am so sorry about your DH joannl.

You've all convinced me that I have to get this program. Sometimes I think I have more fun drawing up designs than actually sewing them. But I can see that it would also be very useful. :wink:

If you need a bunch of excuses why you absolutely need this programme, check out Ducky's PDA - we supplied her with enough to wear down her DH, and now it's on its way!!!!!

anyone out there know where to buy eq at the lowest price possible? i've been itching to buy! also, how computer literate do you need to be? is it available for mac as well as windows?
thanx!

www.annthegran.com has it on sale for 129.99 until Nov 17th. I posted it earlier this week. I don't know if you saw that or not.

http://www.annthegran.com/Product.aspx?t=1&i=102

so is this a computer program and how much is it?

I must confess....I have EQ6 but I am finishing a quilt I designed on the fly!! I have had several problems because of it, too. Because I haven't used EQ6 too much, I've mainly just played around with it, when it came time to do this quilt, I didn't want to start from square one remembering how to use EQ6, so I did it using the math. My quilt is a medallion quilt with a large star in the middle then several borders around it, I've never gotten that far in EQ6 to know how to do that. Nor have I gotten to the point of cutting instructions or fabric requirements. I guess I am a little intimidated by it. I really need to figure it out because I almost always want to change a pattern to make it "mine"...and that can be exausting with my aging brain!!

Thanks to people here, I bought EQ6 not too long ago and love it as well. The first few days were spent carefully going through the tutorials, but now I need to go back through them as I can't seem to print an entire quilt pattern, just block parts! Fun, fun, fun, though, playing with colours, patterns and borders. Computer geek here :roll: