I have an old roll of white paper and I sit down and practice doing diferent designs, vines and leaves, hearts and twirls, did an abstract one, trying to do no two quilts in the same design. Need to practice feathers. Use to fmq in the round and round, but when I did 4 king-size quilts I mask taped across the center, started in the center went back and forth till that half was done. Turned the quilt around and did the other end. Will probably quilt fmq this way from now on. I usually tape my design paper to the wall and repeat to myself what I did. The knack of doing a quilt half at a time is to repeat the design in the same size and dimension as the first half.