When FMQ, look to where you are going, not where the needle is. Fine a comfortable speed that you can hit it and learn the speed at which your sewing machine would move the fabric. Match the movement of the machine with that same speed. That is what Harriet Hargrave taught me back when I took a class from her in the 90s. She has an excellent book called "Heirloom Machine Quilting". I don't know what edition is out now. I bought her third edition and still refer to it today.