I really recommend you start with a couple pieces of fabric ( I buy inexpensive muslin for practice) some batting and do some practicing Before starting a ( real) quilt. There is a learning curve & you need to do some practicing . Unless the quilts you have ready you don't mind ( messing up). The first year I had my long arm I practiced for probably a month every day before loading a real, pieced quilt, then every time I finished one & didn't have another waiting I would load up another practice sandwich & ( play) until I had another ( real) one to quilt again. These practice quilts are some of the most fun quilts I've made. Sometimes my granddaughters would love one just unloaded, I would either bind it or zigzag around it then give it to them, they would grab fabric markers & go to town- coloring the quilt. They made picnic quilts, beach quilts, fort quilts....some of the practice ones I cut up into appropriate ( kennel quilt) sizes, finished the edges & donated to the local animal shelter. They all had a use after all the practice