I have a piece of plexiglass 24x24 (with tape of the sides so I don't accidentally mark my top) and I place it over a section on my top and use a vis a vi marker (similar to dry erase markers) and I draw out designs until I find what looks best. Inexpensive, easy to do and easy to clean up and the practice helps me with muscle memory for quilting on my longarm. I read this on a longarm board, and when I took a classes from Cindy Roth at Longarm Univesity she also used this method and it works great!!!

Love that idea!

If you purchase Quiltmaker designs via EQ you will be able to download the CD into your computer to print (I used one as a stencil) and it will automatically also download into your EQ7 and you can use it there too

Those of you that EQ7--how exactly do you draw a quilt design onto your "finished" block or quilt in EQ7? Do you just pull a motif from the block library? This is one thing my EQ7 share group is struggling to figure out. Thanks!