I had a lot of problems in the beginning as well, one thing I did for myself was have a friend make an extention table (I think that is what you would call it). It is a piece of plywood I picked up at the local home improvement store and I traced out the shape of my machine on one end of it and my friend cut it out for me and added legs the same size as my machine, now when its time to quilt I just add the table to and it gives me a larger work surface. It really helps, just last week I quilted an iris and my roses are looking like roses. lol