Like Tartan stated "I work horizontally" also. Remember, in FMQ your needle can go in any direction, so if you are sewing an edge or border, you can sew it sideways with the edge to the front and the quilt to the left, right and back. Your feed dogs are not engaged, so the machine is not grabbing the fabric and pushing it towards the back. That was one thing that I had to tell myself when I first started FMQ. You CAN go in ANY direction. Once I got that through my head, it was easier to plan my path.