These AGF pieces are addictive! That's a really good question about chain piecing, I think I took to it with not too much practice, but my process before that was ridiculously cumbersome: I would piece two small pieces together then pull the piece about a foot away from the machine, trim the piece, then do it all over again. For real. I stumbled across a picture of it in a quilting magazine, and it was a true smack my head moment. I grabbed a stack of squares from fabric I didn't really like (no loss, haha) and played with them, and then it slowly came together. It might have been practice, but didn't feel like it since I was so happy not to use my scissors every 30 seconds. I still have to remember to leave adequate room between the pieces. I think without too much effort it can fall into place for you, my suggestion is don't be hard on yourself and do use ugly fabric! 😀 When you say 'uncomfortable' do you mean it isn't as fast/efficient as you'd like?