I love free motion quilting. I started 6 or 8 years ago. A friend who ran the Community Service group in my quilt guild told me that if I practiced on CS quilt tops and finished them, she's teach me how to do it. I very rarely SID anymore. I do a lot of meandering and am slowly branching out to other things. I find that if I spray with sizing and iron the backing...pull it taut when pin basting, I just don't have a problem with the puckering on the back.