I use garden gloves with sticky fingers for FMQ (in the spring Costco has a 6 - pack for sale that DD and I split, but sometimes the dollar store gets them -- the stickier the better). I LOVE the Karen K. Buckley scissors -- they are my go to scissors in every size. I got a sew-steady type table free when I bought my machine and I use it all the time for piecing and quilting. I have been doing a lot of my shopping on Amazon or Ebay for gadgets.