Its 3.30am here - I have been to bed, but I am sooo excited about starting to actually quilt I couldn't sleep!! Here's a couple of really close up shots of the microstitch tacks, they are ultra tiny, and you are supposed to be able to stitch over them (but I have placed them carefully to try an avoid that) also I am not using very thick batting, as it is so warm here in Southern Spain, so these are ideal, I have used about 1000, a full pack nearly, of these tacks placing them practically every 1 - 2" and yesterday, stitched n ditched all the sashings (for the first time - scary or what!!!) you can see a little bit on one of the pictures. I use a Janome 9000 which I bought second hand from Rachel, one of the leaders of our group.