I've only used those stitches to sew the binding down..not to actually quilt. It would look nice though, well some of them would. Some look really bad on the back, so you have to check. I can only add that in my limited experience, I've found that when I have missed stitches, or other problems it is due to drag on either the quilt or the thread. When it happens, I look back at my thread holder and normally, a piece of the quilt has flopped over onto the spool and is dragging on the thread.
show pics of what you are doing...sounds like fun!