Choosing the right design software

[Diane O.]

I have EQ6 and love it also. I'm relatively new to quilting and it has really helped me visualize what the finished quilt would look like. I also purchased Block Base and love having all those blocks integrated into the program. That has really given me so many more options - I think I would have "discovered" many of these blocks through other sources, but this really sped up my learning.

[Karen W.]

When I was testing both programs, Quilt Pro and EQ5, and each one was the "latest" version, about 5 or 6 years ago (gosh time flies), I decided on EQ5 and the reason was it had more features that I liked, was just a much more robust program, and had a fairly easy to use interface. It was more reliable also. Somewhere, I wrote up a bit of a review of them, but that's so long ago, can't find it now, unless it's in my journals, and it probably is there, but I have 13 (had 14, but one was destroyed). Anyway, good luck, and I've found lots of tutorials in the EQ5 and online, taken a couple of Quilt University classes online to help understand it. I just bought EQ6 upgrade, and hope to jump back into it again. Quilt On, and Press On too!