Okay, as of exactly one year ago today, I have been actually making more than just squares. I received my copy of EQ5 on my birthday last year and started making designs. First I made an Attic Windows quilt for my great grandson, then a crazy patch tote for my friend who was retiring. The Attic Windows is a block in EQ5 so I just had to find the instructions for putting it together on the net. The crazy patch was also a block, but I re-designed some of them. Now I had to find instructions for foundation piecing. I ended up going to the local quilt shop "The Cotton Patch" for help with that. I have sewn all my adult life, and before, so it was relatively easy for me to figure out how to put blocks and sashing together.
I got the idea for crazy patch from my aunt who made sleeping bags and quilts in that style (all hand done). Mine are tied, cuz I haven't come to the point of machine quilting yet. Now that friend, I made the tote bag for, was wonderful and bought me a Little Gracie II. I did try it out with some throw pillow covers and can not wait til I can do more.
I did design the crazy patch in EQ5, scanned all my fabrics into the program and layed it out. Not all squares on screen match, fabric wise, the actual quilt, but it gave me a darn good idea of what I was getting. The design came progressively, changing it here and there, but it was all in my head.