Congrats! and thank you Feline Fanatic for your pictures--even though I've had my Gammill for almost 3 yrs now, getting both knees replaced during that time (and being off the machine for about 8 months total due to that) makes me feel like such a fumble fingers sometimes! you are right--practice, practice,practice makes such a difference!
One thing I've learned is that it's OK to mark a quilt (Mostly now it's just registration lines)--something that I didn't think I should have to do and did take the time to do when I first started.