I'd like to add to my prior post that although these were the first quilts that I had machine quilted, I have done many, many hand quilted queen sized quilts in the past, and there I always pinned fairly closely in the middle and only widely further out, so it made it more like what I was used to doing. I machine quilted a couple of baby quilts with straight line quilting and a walking foot and found that uni-directional quilting such as long lines is much more awkward for me than FMQ and filling in a squarish area.