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I was finally able to purchase a used long arm quilting machine after years of dreaming about owning one. This is the first quilt I quilted on the machine. I tend to lean toward wanting everything perfect so after the first row I stopped and spent the rest of the evening reviewing it and trying to decide if I should rip out the stitches or what! I slept on it and the next morning I just decided to just go with it and let this be a learning opportunity so I had fun learning to control the curves, experimenting with different designs, etc. It's all free hand (is this the term for making up designs as I go and not using a quilting pattern)? So here are pictures! It was so fun and I feel like I have a huge toy!