ok ya'll - I'm a newby too & soooo "newby" ... Trying to read all the posts & can't keep up. I don't know half of what you're talking about here... "FMQ" "SID", FM'd, SITD" ??? I do know about EQ5/6 software (don't have it) & nothing about "longarms"-except I would like one! ... And in keeping with the "challenge" to use scraps, I have a project to start for my daughter's bed quilt, using some current fabs I already have in her room along with some feedsack fabs I recently got off ebay! Don't know if I should mix new fabs w/old feedsacks? Don't know where to start, pattern, size? Anyone want to help this newby?