Yes, well, that's the key - practice, practice and more practice. I think folks get frustrated on their first try and give up. It isn't unattainable. It just takes practice and tweaking the machine or trying a different needle/thread combination. Of course there are some machines with "issues" that just won't cooperate, but, for the most part any machine will FMQ. I learned on a dinky mechanical Brother from Costco. Feed dogs didn't drop so I set the stitch length on zero. It did a nice job for such a basic machine. Of course it took practice, practice and more practice on my part. And I think those of us who do FMQ on a domestic machine should not try to get the quilts to look like a computerized long arm did them.