I'm a Lori Kennedy fan too, inbox Jaunt. She has great, easy ideas for FMQ. I am learning now too, and I just finished a mini quilt. This is the first time I have ever done a satisfactory piece, at least satisfactory to me. I have made many practice sandwiches on muslin. I decided to make pretty little quilts out of 3 fat quarters. They can be used by my DGDs and they won't mind the imperfections. I was always told it would click someday, and it did. I used my Janome 8900, Machingers gloves, and I adjusted the speed to medium slow. I did the little clam shell pattern.