Thanks one and all. Seems my LA has a problem with the sts skipping. She's going to try a denim needle if she has a break on my quilt that has a bit of batik's in it. And me, personally, I'm headed over the edge into batiks. My hand dyed came out smashing! And I got my SBQ book in. And I signed up for a swap that's all batiks, now I can't wait to play.