Barb...I feel your pain! Don't give up though, you'd make it too easy for me to follow you and I don't want to do that. So...I think that its that you aren't working from actual print outs from your softward. You need to print (making sure your scaling is set to 0)..then sew EXACTLY on the lines for PP'ing. Believe me...even when I do that, sometimes its not perfect...but it is acceptable. I'm struggling with the applique blocks....can anyone tell me how to get pointy points?