I have finally quit struggling and use the straight line method of quilting. I do a lot of QAYG so it is easy to move a large block around and do some really neat modern designs. I took the class by Angela Walters and also Jacque Gering on Craftsy. Angela uses the FMQ foot but does a dot to dot system and it works well. Jacque uses blue painters tape and a walking foot and you can come up with some really neat designs. I can stipple when necessary but like you cannot really seem to find it fun...so why continue....there is a lot of info on the Internet about walking foot quilting and straight line and I find this fun and it really looks good on my quilts.