I really like bearisgray's idea of off-setting the borders on the back. The way I do FMQ "free-motion quiltling" is just running around with my needle drawing loops, going clockwise and counterclockwise. Sometimes I make little loops inside big ones.
And I found a site, I forgot where already, just a few days ago that gave a glossary of these acronyms. There were two pages of them! I wish they weren't used so much; they are very confusing until you really get to know them. There are a few that we use all the time, like WOF, RST. These even beginning sewers need to know, but how are they going to learn them?