Yes, I believe it’s a gift some have and some don’t. Yes, practice certainly helps but some can practice for a year and still it looks pretty bad and others are doing feathers in a month. My DIL did not know how to sew on a button but was very interested in some embroidery she saw. So one Christmas DS bought her a cheap plastic Singer sewing machine and her dad bought her a cheapo embroidery machine. Within months she bought a much better embroidery machine and in 6 months she had a business going part time. Most people don’t do that well, she had the ‘knack’. So it is with FMQ. I don’t think I have it, but I can get by.