Be patient with yourself........there are on-line videos you can watch to get some very useful hints......and a free lesson or two offered by the dealer would be good......but it will all come together IN TIME......try not to listen to the motor of the machine...that will want to make you "speed" and you will break thread, needles........try to keep an even speed, just like driving on a road, don't watch the needle or the laser, keep your eye just ahead of it, again like driving........and vertical and horizontal lines are easy, it's the diagonal ones that cause wiggles.....go to a local glass cutting place and have them cut you a piece of 1/4" plexi the width of a ruler and about 8" long....that is what I use for diagonal lining and I have been doing this for over 10yrs.... when you pick a panto, choose one that is busy and allows for fudging.....no one will ever know if you stayed right on those lines...they are only there to keep you in the vicinity......and like someone else said....dance with the machine, not just using your arms-get sore shoulders, back from that.......stick with poly wrapped thread to begin with....ALWAYS keep the bobbin area clear of lint....that is your new 4 letter word........use a nylon painting brush or a piece of lamb's wool on a stick to get in there.....there is a place somewhere on line for those wonderful lamb sticks, that wool really does get the lint out well...I also use a small air compressor and before each project "blow" everything clean........
Last edited by Geri B; 05-22-2012 at 04:51 AM.