Ditto, that is how I learned. I used fabric and batting I wasn't crazy about. It did not matter what it finished looking like. Breath and jump in! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Hello Tammy and welcome from northern California!

Hello, and welcome from Idaho!

They tell you to practice and when you first start, you'll think, "no way in hell"

as you go on you'll think "well, maybe.." and then "damn machine :x " and then "no way in hell" again

walk away, watch some youtube vids. Check out some photos from the long armers here on the board, go back. Try again and you'll eventually come to the point where you think "holy crap, I'm doing this, yay me"! :thumbup:

welcome!

Welcome from Michigan.:)

I'm just getting a Long Arm quilting business started so send them to me and I'll take care of it for you!

Hello, and welcome from Michigan!

I am with you.. I love doing the tops. I did 2 practice quilts on my frame with machine. I guess I was not confident with the machine or the frame set up. It just takes some practice. So I put one of my real quilts on it.. it sat on the frame for about a week before I could do anything. I just rolled my machine over it with out it running to get a feel for it. Then I took off.. I made lots of mistakes. I ripped some of them out and did them again. My 1st quilting job was not that good, but true when you wash them most of what we saw as flaws and not such pretty lines diappear when it is washed. It is a very nice quilt. I know in my mind it is not the greatest but anyone else does not see them. It is not one I would enter in any contest.. hehehhehee.. So on to the next. Just go... with each mistake we learn, and nothing is ruined.. it can all be ripped out if it would have to be.. hugs to you. I feel your pain.

I feel the same way! I think I am a 'tooper" I am so intimidated by it all..Unable to move forward....HELP