I have ONLY quilted on my Bernina 1530 and I like the look of hand quilting so I find myself crosshatching and quilting like hand quilters would do. Don't limit yourself because you are quilting on a DSM. I won many awards with my quilts and they were all done on my Bernina. I found it easier to learn FMQ by following lines from quilting stencils. Then you are not having to decided in which direction to go. It is hard, but you need to learn to hit a speed on your machine matching that speed and know how the machine feeds your quilt thru at that speed. On last thing is to learn to look down the road to where you are going and not where the needle is at the present. It does take practice but Julia Child probably burnt a few meals teaching herself how to cook, it just takes practice.
