I'm a novice at this but the following link will help you a lot. Leah Day has a site that gives free videos and also You Tube videos on free motion quilting including how to get that big quilt into the machine. Here is the link for that clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc2Y1...eature=related She has lots of others too. Like Jenny she is easy to listen to and her site has other suggestions too.