Puddle = scrunch up. If you imagine the quilt divided into 9 squares, start with the middle first. then do the bottom middle. then go to the top middle and then work your way down the right top, middle, bottom. Then turn the quilt around and do the first column.
There are a lot of great tutorials on Leah Day's site.
www.freemotionquilting.blogspot.com
She does all her quilts on a domestic machine. So you can too!