CARLA!!
I agree with you wholeheartedly! I am terrified of messing up months of my patchwork, designing, etc. with messed-up quilting that I either:
1. leave the quilt as a top
2. do VERY basic hand-quilting (so I have a chance of finishing it some day
3. tie the quilt (which makes some people feel the need to tell me that my finished product is not in fact a "real" quilt-- meanies!), or
4. acutally mess it up trying to feed it through my machine!
I would really love to try FMQ and other machine-quilting techniques, but I am so worried to mess something up, or have my Kenmore machine laughed at by the Pfaffers at my local quilt shop.
*sigh* :shock: