Well maybe I am the only one but when I got my machine and frame it took me a while to get it set up well a few weeks, then when I started to use it I had all kinds of different problems, there was no way I would have got to just start quilting, I think everything that could go wrong probably did. I had read everything I could find about long arm quilting and the fixes and what not and still had different problems. Then one day it just worked, apparently I had worked all of my kinks out of me, user errors, and everything fit together and on I went. I think it just takes a bit of time to get through to some great stitching. Of course, there are always those that have no problems at all when novices, but that was not me.lol