I guess I am the oddball because I hand quilt and have a thing against the quilting frenzy overkill I see in a lot of quilts. I did a deer quilt and what I did was to outline the animals as this sort of puffed them out a bit, and used green to meander through the trees, and just used the fabric itself as a guide to quilting. Blocks I did in the usual 1/4 inch from each seam. I did machine quilt in the ditch, but tore it all out as I handquilted as I found it puckered badly with the machine. I have a Janome 6600 and find it difficult to actually machine quilt on it unless I use a fusible batting. Any suggestions out there as to how I can machine quilt without going bonkers over the puckering???