One thing you might want to think of is that your finger on the bottom of the quilt where you feel for the needle may get sore at first and then develop a callous...i cut the sticky part of a bandaid off and stick it to my finger..I can feel the needle but losing the kind of ugly callous. I've tried liquid bandaid but didn't care for that.Any thing thicker and I can't feel the needle
Good luck...you'll get addicted