My husband is the draftsman in the family and has worked with EQ5, 6, and the latest verison EQ7 update. I started with his help, and am using the EQ7 with its special extra disk from Amazon on Farmers Wife Sampler Quilt. I a new at using it, but love it and the company. They answer questions quickly and very nicely.
I have been posting my blocks with the FWSQ monthly block group here and love seeing everyone else's blocks. I work with my EQ7 designing each block, printing out an outline and templates. We scan in the materials we want too to design blocks or quilts. The tutorial books that come with EQ are very good at guiding one through their lessons...at least, we thought they were at getting us started.