quilting is full of easy tricks--some will work for you some you will not like---i learn buy watching it being done-you tube is the best--if you are isolated--put an add in you local paper there are many quiet crafters all over the world----love spray baste+hand baste hate pinning the layers together--i use a 3 inch double fold binding [most use 2 .1/2] then i find out www.pamhollanddesigns.com[check her out from my home town adelaide] also uses 3 inch she also free motion quilts with her feed dogs up---i guess if you learn the rules you then know to break them