Goos morning, Kwiltr, Welcome to longarming! To answer your question about continous design, relax and just let your design flow from side to side, leaving uneaven bottom edge. When you roll your quilt leave you machine in the needle down position. Then fill in the design going back and forth, like a typewriter. For me it makes thing so much easier to leave the needle down, stops some of the thread breaks and keeps me focused on where I left off. When you head back to the left, the uneven edge of the previous row allows you to fill in without an obvious line straight across the quilt, making everything mesh todether as one design. I hope this made sense to you ! Feel free to PM me with any questions and I will help where I can! ENJOY!