It is a lot harder than I thought to learn.
I have ruined two practice quilts on mine.
Pantos are imposible since I dont know how to stabilize the sides of the quilt. You cant see where you are going and the needle can get stuck on the edges of the quilt. Since there is such a small sewing area sewing down the sides just dosnt work.
Use the velcro on the edges of your leaders that hold the quilt in place. That way your leaders stay attached to the frame and you pull the velcro off the quilt instead of useing pins. My frame is an Imperial and the leaders are attached with plastic tubes that go trough a hem on the leader then into a grove in the rod. This part stays in place and the velcro is on the other end of the leader that holds the quilt.
There is so much to learn and I havnt had the time to really practice a lot. Sure wish I had a long arm machine as the short arm is so limited. Cant do indevidual block patterns because the area to quilt is so small. My frame has such a large size rod it leaves around a 4 in area to quilt. I bought a 4 in wide ruler and now mark lines across my quilt so I dont go to far and run out of room.