When I first bought my long arm machine, I bought several kinds of rulers and even templates from Farrell's CountryStitchin. I found the rulers/templates somewhat awkward to work with with as a new quilter. I gave up on them, and just tried FMQ without rulers/templates and actually have more fun that way. The ruler quilting people do is absolutely beautiful, but the quilts I do are really intended to be used rather than exhibited, so my less than perfect FMQ works just fine.