I've been sewing for about 15-20 years, but I still get cold feet when it comes to FMQ. I chicken out and do SID, or I use the quilting designs of paper on a roll, especially on borders, or I do simple diamonds on the borders and cross hatching. I'm told that I make beautiful quilts, however, I really get cold feet at FMQ, so I just need to jump right in like I did when I first started quilting, with my second quilt being a 110 x 110 inch King size quilt with pieced baskets set on point with sashings, which I quilted on my Sears Kenmore sewing machine. Nobody told me I couldn't do it, and being self taught I really didn't know what I was doing, except from what I learned watching quilt shows and reading books and magazines on quilting. This year I really plan on improving my FMQ skills.