I am learning now, but I am planning on taking a class soon. The visiting FMQ instructor has you print out designs from her website and trace them onto 1yd. sandwiches w/ the blue pattern markers.
http://www.julieylambert.com/worksho..._markings1.htm
Another LQS has a yard of fabric, where they sew 12 separate squares on it, and then do 12 different types of FMQ.