desperation and good mentors have helped. I just kept going through my list of things to do which includes shutting the machine off for a while. The awhile turned into 2 days because we were so busy entertaining for the 4th, cleaning up and recouperating that I couldn't get back to the machine. I am making it for the local shop, but they can'y help me yet. They only know the basics of embroidering for quilts, never have done FSL. Nor can they fix a multi-needle machine because they have only seen them in pictures. Yes, I am in an embroidery desert. And for nhsmith... The FSL design came from a program called Ineractives. There are about a dozen different programs, each is a stand-alone, most can interact with each other. I am able to use 1 of the Interactive progams to come up with a design, then use a design from another Interactive program to embellish it. Check on the Babylock website (see link below( to see the program. I believe you can try a sample. They are called interactive because you can play with levers and make the design different in size and other ways. Have fun playing once you find the Interactives.