OMGosh, your DH put the frame all together and you haven't used it at all?? Why not? what is stopping you? Pick a machine and put it on the carriage and go to town. The second I was introduced to quilting on a frame I knew i would probably never hand quilt again. I told sit down machine quilting "Buhbye, don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you on the way out!" I never did get the hang of sit down FMQ on my domestic and it was not an aspect of quilting I enjoyed. And I hated making the sandwich with a white hot passion.. But whoa nelly put me in front of a frame and I am one creative happy camper. Wait, what? I don't have to make a sandwich anymore? Wait, what? I am no longer all tensed up and freaked out when it comes to quilting? Holy cow, I can make a circle instead of squarcle!
Please, try out that frame. Load up the top you don't care if you ruin and try all those fabulous designs you have been drooling over in the books. Loops, swirls, feathers, pebbles, wavy lines, straight lines everything you have read and dreamed about. Sometimes all it takes is to try and get rid of the fear. So ditch your fear, not your frame!