I don't know. I've not been quilting nearly as long as you & I love the quilting part. One thing that really helps me is marking my entire quilt top before I layer it. That way I have a rough idea of how I'm going to quilt it (no need to stay perfectly on the lines -- they're just there as guidance & come out in the wash). Before I knew I could do that, it was a much bigger struggle to try anything creative & I was constantly unsewing, unsewing, unsewing.