Keep the tips coming. I just took my first Machine Quilting class last night, and my first attempt looks like a drunken second-grader's project. :oops: Very humbling when I can't even follow a traced line. My biggest problem was in wanting to "turn" the design as I was sewing - and the instructor had said not to do this. But then, when I needed to sew behind the darning foot, I couldn't see the lines and would get lost. Then, of course, I would panic and stiffen the shoulders and get a death grip on the fabric and it was all over. I realize this will only happen when following a pattern, but how do others deal with this? (I did a little better, barely, with the freehand stuff, which seemed easier than trying to follow that dratted line.)