Watson, what I did was to use a busy piece of fabric that I followed the design details with my machine. Every day until I got comfortable with the technique. I saw someone using what I call a piece of cheater cloth the other day and I thought that would be a great learning tool because you can quilt your design just as though it were your regular quilt top. You will do fine sad thing for me is that I have a very hard time FMQ on the DSM. Good luck!