I'm pretty much a self taught machine quilter, and I do the majority of my quilting with straight lines and SID. However, since I am self taught, my first machine quilted quilt was king size, and somehow I even did feathered circles in the plain blocks. I learned so much quilting that quilt, but I was also also using the quilt to ease the grief of losing an older brother at age 53 from cancer. He lived in AZ and my sister and I were not able to go because we could not get a flight that would get us there in time for the funeral. However, I have frequently used quilting to get through the rough patches in my life, I don't know how I could have done it any other way. Quilting is my passion, my therapy and I love it.