butterfly wrote: "next will be panto. i think panto is the hardest, because i have to work from the back of my machine, because i'm too short to see from the front".
butterfly you could do pantos from the front of the machine by clamping a piece of plexy glass the length of your poles between the first and second pole. Kind of like suspending it in the air over the poles so that you can advance the poles when you need to. You can put the panto design on this plexy glass. If you had a way of mounting your laser light or stylus on the front of the machine, it is possible to do pantos from the front.