I bought a kit from my local quilt/fabric shop and don't even know the brand it was, but that is what has me hooked on quilting. The fabric patterns and panels just called to me. The top is finnished and I'm pouring over all the freemotion links I can find here to learn from. Haven't got a clue about threads and batting, but it did come with backing in the kit. Typically I sew and embroider. I have a brother 4000D, that's 4 years old. Just want it to look nice, so I think I'm going to do some in the hoop quilting squares and some book patterns and then try to free motion on them before I put the quilt together. YES I'm afraid of messing it up and so far it looks really great.