My secret was to turn my Gammill over to my son (he is on permanent disability for a former work-site injury) and he does my quilting. The only thing with that, he has his thoughts on how one should be quilted, and I have mine--but once we get past that hurdle, we have quite a quilting history behind us, the latest being a double-wedding whole cloth quilt that will be a wedding gift for my first grandson when we go to the wedding in a couple of weeks. I love the creative and piece work of the tops, and he is good on the quilting machine; machine mechanics and all--tension is always a big problem when I try to quilt. But between us, we've completed over a hundred quilts in the four years that I've had it.