I too never got any good at FMQ and also found it not fun and very stressful. If I wanted fancy quilting I did it by hand and everything else was done with a walking foot on my domestic. I did several quilts where I did both hand and machine. Then I discovered LA quilting and haven't looked back. I love rack quilting. My brain is just not wired to "move the paper". I have no issues when I can move the pen, even when my "pen" is a rack mounted sewing machine.