You sound like you are more adventerous than I am. i have been making quilts, mostly tying off and on for yrs. Now I have a new machine and I have been itching to try machine quilting. I appreciate all the ans. ppl have given you, i find them encouraging! thanks for sharing your feelings, it has been helpful for me. by the way I am not real familiar with quilting terms, just eactly does FMQ mean? They say there are no dumb questions so no-one laugh. LOL